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Proprioception

Self-location awareness within the task graph

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Definition

Mechanism

Continuous self-monitoring of position in the Task graph. An Agent periodic 'ping' to itself to verify Context, active tool state, and depth in recursion. Prevents 'getting lost' in long chains of thought. It maintains internal State awareness, using SomaticMarker to detect recursion depth limits or resource fatigue.

Invariants

  1. Context Continuity: Agent knows its parent Task ID
  2. Liveness: Parent.status == ACTIVE
  3. State Recovery: Can reconstruct stack Trace from logs

Risks

Failure modes

  1. Stagnation

    Agent remains in same node > N ticks.

  2. Orphaned

    Parent Task ID not found or unresponsive.

  3. Hallucinated {{context}}

    Stack Trace does not match environmental reality.

Relationships

Builds on

References

Agent

Autonomous Goal-Directed Entity

Infrastructure

Context

Portable execution environment with inherited constraints

Society

SomaticMarker

System health acting as an inhibitory emotion

Infrastructure

State

System condition at time T

Infrastructure

Task

The atomic unit of intent

Infrastructure

Trace

Record the lineage or provenance of a target

Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.

Reference

Parameters

max_recursion_depth PositiveInteger, unspecified
Default: 10
stagnation_threshold Int, [1, 100]
Ticks before abort

Identity

Ref
Proprioception#d0e9
Sema ID
sema:Proprioception#mh:SHA-256:d0e9504515812dc3406f58619c71e240ae407b847bb740d529cd91efaba4930f
Ring
2
Tier
3
Updated
2026-11-11
Supersedes
  • sema:Proprioception#mh:SHA-256:2fbfba79d07478050b86020f08cb42f18c93e896052dccba0311db0168b549a0
  • sema:Proprioception#mh:SHA-256:b2d70e4416d6b55a8b9f1fe6e9b462855a6efb710eab02138b493aa047424001
  • sema:Proprioception#mh:SHA-256:33337af3c2616cf01b7ceaf3725c094d76c3643e6b89bbff130ea7536e91ad9b
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