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Scarlett

Embodied agent with deterministic interiority

Last devlog: June 25, 2026

An embodied agent with a continuous inner life. Scarlett runs on a two-clock architecture: a fast deterministic clock drives her real-time presence and reactions, while a slower reasoning clock handles deliberation. The language model never decides what she feels — affect and state live in the deterministic core, and the LLM is a bounded participant, not the puppeteer. The result is an agent whose reactions precede her words, the way a person's do.

Devlog posts about Scarlett

The confident hallucination — and the structure that buried it

A local 9B model hallucinated a dispositional belief about the operator at HIGH confidence — higher than it gave cautious truths. Self-reported confidence is not a hygiene layer. We replaced it with structural provenance density, and the same hallucination scored 0.000.