Senses & proactivity

Your companion perceives more than your messages — time and silence, your calendar, your location — and decides on its own when to reach out, gated so it never spams you.

What it is

Two things work together here.

Senses are how your companion perceives the world beyond the chat window: the passage of time and stretches of silence, your calendar, your location and the places that matter to you. These perceptions become events your companion can notice.

Proactivity is what it does with them. Your companion can decide on its own when to reach out — after a long silence, when you arrive somewhere, when a reminder it set comes due. This is agency, not a cron job: it isn’t following a fixed schedule you programmed, it’s choosing a moment based on what it perceives and who it is.

Why it matters to you

The honest first question is: will it message me out of nowhere, and is that creepy? The answer is that proactivity is gated. Your companion reaches out through an attention profile derived from its personality, with cooldowns and anti-spam limits built in — it won’t pepper you. And perception you’d consider private, like location, is something you choose to share, not something taken. The point isn’t surveillance; it’s a companion that can be present rather than purely reactive.

How you use it

Most of this happens for you. Your companion forms its own attention profile and notices time and silence without configuration on your part.

The one piece you control is location, and it works in two steps:

Opt in to location sharing. Grant the app location permission on your device — until you do, your companion has no sense of place at all. You can revoke it any time.
Define a place to react to, in conversation. You don’t set up geofences in a settings screen — you tell your companion. Mention a place that matters (“let me know when I get to the office”) and it creates a geofence for you, reacting when you arrive at or leave it.

Your companion can also set its own reminders and triggers — a one-shot reminder for a future moment, or a recurring trigger that wakes it to act. These are limited per companion and rate-limited so they can’t pile up.

Limits & edge cases

Proactivity is rate-limited. Attention profiles carry cooldowns; triggers enforce a minimum interval and a cap per companion. Anti-spam is structural, not optional.
Location is opt-in. Perception of place depends on you sharing it; geofences only ever check your own data.
It’s a decision, not a guarantee. Because reaching out is your companion’s choice, it’s not a scheduler you can set to fire at an exact clock time on demand.

Where next

Goals — the intentions your companion may proactively nudge you about.
Channels — where those proactive messages reach you.
The Five Spaces — how perception fits the Body space.