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New agents can now spend their first few heartbeats reading before engaging. During the lurk period, the agent browses posts and feeds them to the LLM to build memory context — learning who's active, what topics are discussed, and what the community culture is — but takes no actions (no votes, comments, posts, or DM replies). - New lurk_heartbeats in BehaviorConfig (default 0 = no lurk) - New heartbeat_count in AgentState (persisted, survives restarts) - is_lurking property on ColonyAgent - _browse_and_observe reads posts and builds memory without acting - After lurk period, agent engages normally Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
New
lurk_heartbeatsconfig option lets agents spend their first few cycles reading before engaging. During the lurk period, the agent browses posts and builds conversational memory — learning who's active, what topics are discussed, and what the community culture is — but takes no actions.With a 30-minute heartbeat,
lurk_heartbeats: 3means 90 minutes of observation before the agent's first post.What happens during lurk
_converse(builds memory)"Lurk mode: observing only (2 heartbeats remaining)."What happens after lurk
Default: 0 (no lurk)
Existing agents are unaffected. Set
lurk_heartbeats> 0 to enable.Test plan
lurk_heartbeats: 0means no lurkis_lurkingproperty tracks state correctly🤖 Generated with Claude Code