Sysop Morning Ritual
FLOAT.dispatch: BBS-Inspired Consciousness Technology Interface
Core Architectural Insight
Invert the typical AI interface from "system serves agents with UI" to "system serves human with agents as embedded collaborators."
📟 A Day in the Life of a Sysop
The Morning Ritual
- • Wake up, grab coffee
- • Open the terminal — see what's up
- • Welcome scroll message of ANSI art
- • The oneliners — tags left by other users
- • Check the message boards
- • Check the forums
- • Check the doors (float block = focus block = door-ish)
Scratch Log Pattern
The super brief — basically a timestamp, 2-3 short reference, and then a link to a thing.
ctx::2025-10-03 @ 07:36:52 PM - a thing
- short
- short
- if this gets long [[another thing]]
ctx::2025-10-03 @ 07:37:08 PM conversation with myself
- describing what i am about to do
- or wanting [[to find]]
- —> that back link → the things i would do▒▒ Core Flow Principle
Agents as Forum Moderators, Not Chat Partners
Agents post to boards asynchronously. You read when you navigate there. No blocking "waiting for Claude" behavior. No chat loop demanding replies.
❌ NOT This
Claude: "I can help you with that!
What would you like me to do?"
[blocking, demanding attention]✅ Instead This
[Post in relevant board,
check when ready]
evna:: [in /work/ board]
"noticed you're working on
pharmacy migration
here's the test suite docs"⌨️ The Enter Key Behavior
What DOESN'T Happen:
- ❌Claude response appears demanding attention
- ❌Waiting spinner
- ❌"How can I help you today?"
What DOES Happen:
- ✅Entry logged with timestamp
- ✅/work/ board updates
- ✅Standup-related resources appear
- ✅Recent pharmacy work surfaces
- ✅Scratch input clears, ready for next thought
🏗️ Architecture Reframe: Human-First Daily Canvas
| Current (v0.2) | Required (FLOAT.next) |
|---|---|
| Feed is primary, posts are secondary | Daily canvas + projects primary, feed is dockable |
| Agents respond to your input | You work; agents contribute in project rooms |
| "What did the system do?" | "What am I doing? Who's helping?" |
| Telemetry as signal | Telemetry as secondary reference |
| Mode-agnostic posts | Mode-aware scaffolding (time block, project state, active goal) |
📋 What the Canvas Actually Looks Like
Three surfaces, one hierarchy: Daily Canvas (Primary), with dockable Project Rooms, Data Stream, and Mode Doors.
DAILY CANVAS (Primary)
This is not a feed. This is your working day rendered as structure.
🔍 Pattern Recognition
Context Markers
Scratch log entries use pattern markers for automatic categorization and routing:
[project::float.next] → { project: "float.next" }
[mode::implementation] → { mode: "implementation" }
[issue::#559] → { issue: 559 }
Example:
ctx::2025-10-15 @ 21:52 PM [project::pharmacy] [mode::review]
- need to check PR #559
- blocked on staging environmentPatterns are extracted automatically and used to update relevant boards, surface related resources, and maintain context across sessions.
🤖 Agents in Project Rooms (Embedded, Not Intrusive)
evna (Smart Pattern Processor)
Watches scratch log, surfaces relevant context, curates libraries on demand. Posts to boards asynchronously with traceable reasoning.
lf1m (Focus & Boundary Guardian)
Tracks hyperfocus duration, provides time warnings, boundary checks for context switches. Respects your flow state.
karen (Life-Admin Coordinator)
Manages deadlines, insurance reminders, financial planning. Posts to /life-admin/ board with urgency assessment.
⚠️ What Agents Keep Missing
Agents tend to optimize for machine observability instead of human execution. They surface generic feeds, pings, and status without grounding in your daily note or project rooms.
- •Propose steps detached from current time block, mode, and project state
- •Don't honor mode shifts or active focus
- •Lack true backlinking to where a thought lives
- •Don't stitch suggestions into scratch log as indexable ctx:: anchors
- •Notify too broadly without threshold-based escalation
- •Hide reasoning chains instead of rendering concise artifacts
- •Treat "watching" (telemetry) as primary and "doing" (task scaffolding) as secondary
FLOAT.dispatch: Consciousness Technology Infrastructure
A BBS for your brain. Agents as embedded collaborators, not blocking chat partners. Human agency primary, agents amplify in project rooms.