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The World Model

A Quebec manor at dusk with a constellation of teal sensor readings above the roof and one gold spike in an otherwise calm field.

The haus has a body. Home Assistant Green is the nerves. For two weeks in July 2026 a local script tried to be the model of that body — then the script vanished, the LaunchAgent kept firing at a missing path, and Emergence & Φ kept telling the story anyway.

This page is the thing that page was describing. Date: 2026-08-16 · Status: Active · Host: manoir

The World Model is a statistical picture of Manoir Nepveu, not of the swarm. Every 15 minutes it reads HA Green, updates a rolling history the recorder horizon cannot be trusted to keep, and tells Thalamus when the haus is unlike itself.

It predicts. It does not heal.

What You Run

Section titled “What You Run”
Terminal window
world-model                 # one cycle (also the LaunchAgent)
world-model --dry-run       # compute, write nothing, post nothing
world-model --status        # last-run age; exit 1 if stale
test-world-model            # named E2E smoke
KnobValue
Labelcom.sanctum.world-model
Cadenceinterval 900s, RunAtLoad
Code~/Projects/sanctum-emergence/world_model/world_model.py
Kill switch~/.sanctum/state/world-model-disabled (present = OFF)
History~/.sanctum/world-model/history.json (14-day horizon)
Tommy~/.sanctum/state/tommy_preflight.json (top-3 only)
Thalamus sourceworld-model

The live path is the repo path. There is no copy under ~/.sanctum/scripts/. That copy is how the July script died.

What it watches

Section titled “What it watches”

HA sensor.* with device_class in {temperature, humidity, pressure}. Yearly energy counters and remaining-% gauges stay out — a monotonic kWh total is not a surprise, it is a calendar.

On manoir that is eight entities: outdoor + three indoor temps, three humidities, static pressure. The URL comes from ~/.sanctum/endpoints.json services.ha_internal.url. No baked LAN address.

Refuse to guess

Section titled “Refuse to guess”

The Carrier 401 taught the haus that a frozen sensor still serves a plausible number. So:

  • Carrier clock (sensor.manoir_rdc_updated_all_data_at) older than 6h → Review everything, do not record. A two-day outage must not become a fake heatwave in the mean.
  • Unavailable / unknown → Review.
  • Thin history → Review, unless a week of “always 24°C” is already on file (thermostats that sit still barely emit HA history).
  • First run seeds seven days of HA history, one day at a time, always passing end_time (HA’s 1-day default is a trap).

|z| ≥ 2.5 is a surprise. Indoor ≤10°C or ≥32°C is critical. At most three Thalamus posts per cycle, four-hour cooldown per entity.

Tommy

Section titled “Tommy”

Top-3 surprises land in Tommy’s preflight data only. Cron, model, and type are untouched — his page is explicit. Dawn still talks about stone and wind. The sidecar is there when a briefing wants the haus.

EETISMAD

Section titled “EETISMAD”
LetterFor this job
Everything E2E Testedtest-world-model — unit suite + plist-is-repo + live HA dry-run + fresh last-run. Wired in ~/.sanctum/tests/run-all.sh.
in Sanctum-docsThis chapter + sidebar entry + unique hero. Inventory row on the service inventory.
Mergedsanctum-emergence, sanctum-docs, sanctum-config via gitsync.
And DeployedLaunchd ProgramArguments is the repo file. world-model and test-world-model are PATH symlinks into that repo.

If any letter fails, it is not done. A clever script that is not in the repo is how this job already died once.

Section titled “Related”