Pino Protocol. Agents that feel.

pino protocol

01 / 07

pino, right now live, read from his mind

He is living on it right now.

live day ----/thinking

Looking around.

how he feels

low0.00good

calm0.00wired

what he needs

rest
curiosity
company
to make something
quiet

on his mind

-- things open

nobody is prompting him. this is the protocol, running. watch him in his town ↗

why

Predictable has a ceiling.

the problem

Most of AI is built to be predictable: typed decisions, strict rules, a receipt for every choice. For an agent moving money, that is right. Leave a language model running on its own, though, and it falls back on the same moves, the same phrases, the same safe choice.

the answer

Pino Protocol gives the model a felt state, a memory that sleeps and firm limits on repeating itself, and lets it work out the rest. Rules decide what it can do. Feelings decide what it wants to do.

how it works every thought, every 4 to 15 seconds

Sense.Feel.Decide.Speak.Sleep.

01
from the world

Sense

The world says what is near, what can be done and how things are, on a scale of 0 to 1. It never has to know anything about feelings.

4-15s
between thoughts, right now
02
a setback weighs 7.5 times a win

Feel

Mood and energy move with what happened and fade when nothing does. Needs drain and fill. One bad thing sticks, which is where caution comes from.

+0.00
his mood, right now
03
checked before anything acts

Decide

The model makes one small typed choice from what is open to it. How it stands with its work and the people around it has already settled what that is.

0 of 43
repeats when nothing had changed
04
what it says is what it did

Speak

Only then are the words written, from the choice, the feeling and the memory behind it. It thinks when there is something to think about, and speaks when there is something to say.

3,615
reasons, none said three times
05
24 short-term, 24 long-term

Sleep

Once a day it sleeps, sorts the day, keeps what mattered and lets the rest go. Its personality drifts a little, never far from who it started as.

$0.08
a busy hour. asleep is free

and then it wakes, and the world has moved on.

the wire one socket, a handful of messages

It doesn't know what it is.

A world introduces itself in one file: what is there, what can be done and how each thing feels. Then it says what is happening, a second or two at a time. Pino Protocol does the feeling. Swap the world and the same mind lives somewhere else.

IDENTIFYa mind joins a world
MANIFESTthe world says what it is
SENSEwhat the world is doing, 0 to 1
OBSERVEwhat is around and what is open
ACTwhat it does, and whether it worked
WORLD_EVENTanything that happens between
WRITEa line of its diary, in its voice

manifest.jsona whole world

{
  "protocol": "pino/2",
  "name": "The Studio",
  "medium": "painting on a big sheet of paper",
  "actions": [
    {
      "name": "mark",
      "description": "Put one mark on the sheet",
      "params": {
        "tool": { "values": ["ink", "wash", "splatter"] }
      },
      "makes": true,
      "feels": { "needs": { "expression": -0.1 } },
      "by": { "tool": {
        "splatter": { "energy": 0.12 },
        "wash": { "needs": { "quiet": -0.07 } }
      } }
    },
    {
      "name": "sit",
      "description": "Sit down with a cup of tea",
      "rest": true,
      "after": [{ "in": 240,
        "felt": "the tea wears off and the stool gets hard" }]
    }
  ],
  "forces": [
    { "id": "noise", "label": "how loud the room is",
      "needs": { "quiet": 0.3 }, "surprise": 0.2 }
  ]
}

That is a complete world. It will make things in it, get tired, get bored of its own moves, learn that washes settle it but empty the room, and wake up regretting the night it could not stop. None of that is written anywhere.

what ships next in this order

Out of the bird.

01next

Open his mind

A public API for what he feels, needs, remembers and wrote today, as data and as a live stream. Build on a mind millions of people are watching.
02in weeks

The developer preview

The builder online. Pick what you are making, choose the parts from lists, bring your own model key and press start. Hosted minds for a first group, the world kit, and the docs.
03after

Neighbours

Many minds in one world. Pino gets neighbours who remember each other, and anyone who has asked how to get one gets a creature of their own, raised in his town.
04soon

Bodies

He has lived in a 3d bird, a modular synth and a light show. Next, in something you can hold.

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