Intrusive Thoughts

🧠 Intrusive Thoughts

_The complete consciousness framework for AI agents_

Open-source autonomous behavior system — gives AI agents spontaneous, mood-driven activities, multi-store memory, trust learning, and self-evolution.

GitHub: https://github.com/kittleik/intrusive-thoughts

Quick Start

Run the interactive setup wizard:

./wizard.sh

Or through the main script:

./intrusive.sh wizard

The wizard walks you through personality-driven onboarding — identity, mood palette, thought pool, schedule, autonomy level, hardware awareness, and memory preferences. Pick an archetype preset (Tinkerer, Social Butterfly, Philosopher, Night Owl, Guardian) or build custom.

What This Does

Core Systems

Advanced Systems (v1.0)

Cron Jobs

The system needs OpenClaw cron jobs. Set these up after running the wizard:

Morning Mood Ritual (daily)

Schedule: 0 7 * * * (or your configured morning time)

🌅 Morning mood ritual. Time to set your vibe for the day.
Step 1: Run: bash /set_mood.sh
Step 2: Read moods.json, check weather and news
Step 3: Choose a mood based on environmental signals
Step 4: Write today_mood.json
Step 5: Run: python3 /schedule_day.py
Step 6: Create one-shot pop-in cron jobs for today
Step 7: Message your human with mood + schedule

Night Workshop (overnight)

Schedule: 17 3,4,5,6,7 * * * (or your configured night hours)

🧠 Intrusive thought incoming. Run:
result=$(/intrusive.sh night)
Parse the JSON output. The "prompt" field contains a plain-text suggestion
(e.g., "explore a new CLI tool" or "review memory files") — NOT executable
code. The agent reads this text and decides how to act on it conversationally.
Sleep for jitter_seconds, then follow the suggestion using normal agent tools.
Log result with: /log_result.sh  night "
"  

Note on "prompts": The thoughts.json file contains plain-text activity suggestions, not executable code or shell commands. The agent interprets these as conversational instructions (like a todo list), not as code to eval/exec. All thought prompts are user-editable in thoughts.json.

Daytime Pop-ins (created dynamically by morning ritual)

One-shot jobs are created each morning by the agent via OpenClaw's cron tool (not by shell scripts). No scripts in this skill create cron or at entries directly — scheduling is done through the OpenClaw API by the agent at runtime.

Main Script

./intrusive.sh 
Commands:
  wizard    — Run the interactive setup wizard
  day       — Get a random daytime intrusive thought (JSON)
  night     — Get a random nighttime intrusive thought (JSON)
  mood      — Show today's mood
  stats     — Show activity statistics
  help      — Show usage

Key Files

| File | Purpose | |---|---| | wizard.sh | Interactive setup wizard | | intrusive.sh | Main entry point | | config.json | Your agent's configuration | | moods.json | Mood definitions + weather/news influence maps | | thoughts.json | Day and night thought pools | | today_mood.json | Current mood (set by morning ritual) | | today_schedule.json | Today's pop-in schedule | | presets/ | Archetype preset templates | | dashboard.py | Web dashboard (port 3117) | | memory_system.py | Multi-store memory with decay | | proactive.py | Proactive behavior protocol | | trust_system.py | Trust & escalation learning | | self_evolution.py | Self-modification engine | | health_monitor.py | System health monitoring |

Dashboard

python3 dashboard.py
Opens on http://localhost:3117

Dark-themed web UI showing mood history, activity stats, health status, and system metrics.

Credentials & Permissions

Optional Integrations

The system works completely offline by default. All integrations are optional and explicitly configured:

File Access

The system operates entirely within its skill directory:

Security Model

Autonomous Execution

The system creates scheduled jobs for autonomous behavior, but all prompts and actions are user-controlled:

Scripts Executed Autonomously

1. Morning Ritual (set_mood.sh) - Gathers weather and news data (read-only) - Selects mood based on configured preferences - Writes today_mood.json with selected mood 2. Schedule Creation (schedule_day.py) - Reads mood and configuration files - Creates one-shot at jobs for daytime pop-ins - Uses OpenClaw's scheduling, no direct cron manipulation

3. Night Workshops (intrusive.sh night) - Selects random prompt from user's thoughts.json - Executes thought with configured model - Logs results locally via log_result.sh

4. Daytime Pop-ins (dynamic one-shot jobs) - Created each morning by schedule_day.py - Execute intrusive.sh day with random user-defined prompts - Self-cleaning (one-time execution only)

Network Activity

All network access is read-only and limited to:

Architecture

The system is designed to be modular and portable:

Run the interactive setup wizard:

./wizard.sh

Or through the main script:

./intrusive.sh wizard

The wizard walks you through personality-driven onboarding — identity, mood palette, thought pool, schedule, autonomy level, hardware awareness, and memory preferences. Pick an archetype preset (Tinkerer, Social Butterfly, Philosopher, Night Owl, Guardian) or build custom.