From 54a0ee094901f21747aa707654e3eebbb5c86b2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Anderson <will.anderson@neurontechnologies.ai>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 08:48:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] self-review 2026-05-26: sync dist/awareness.c with
 awareness.el source
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dist/awareness.c was stale — still had the broken EL % operator codegen
(minute_block = ts/60000 raw, EL_NULL; 4; as dead statements) and the
broken should_scan/should_beat logic (idle_n truthy check instead of >=).

Recompiled awareness.el to bring dist/awareness.c in sync with the source
fix committed 2026-05-25 (fb69044). The monolithic dist/neuron.c (compiled
from soul.el which imports awareness.el) was already correct from fb69044 —
only the standalone dist/awareness.c was behind.

Bug #2 (99% CPU) root cause identified: perceive() inbox guard
(engram_search_json) has false positives — knowledge nodes containing
"soul-inbox" as a substring match, causing engram_activate_json(..., hops=2)
to run on every tick on a 162K-node graph. This blocks sleep_ms and prevents
idle_n accumulation → no heartbeats. Separate fix needed.
---
 dist/awareness.c | 25 +++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dist/awareness.c b/dist/awareness.c
index 2ec0dce..c4eca5c 100644
--- a/dist/awareness.c
+++ b/dist/awareness.c
@@ -240,9 +240,11 @@ el_val_t emit_heartbeat(void) {
 
 el_val_t proactive_curiosity(void) {
   el_val_t ts = time_now();
-  el_val_t minute_block = (ts / 60000);
-  EL_NULL;
-  4;
+  el_val_t ts_minutes = (ts / 60000);
+  el_val_t minute_q = (ts_minutes / 4);
+  el_val_t minute_q2 = (minute_q + minute_q);
+  el_val_t minute_q4 = (minute_q2 + minute_q2);
+  el_val_t minute_block = (ts_minutes - minute_q4);
   state_set(EL_STR("cseed_a"), EL_STR("memory"));
   state_set(EL_STR("cseed_b"), EL_STR("knowledge"));
   state_set(EL_STR("cseed_c"), EL_STR("context"));
@@ -473,21 +475,16 @@ el_val_t awareness_run(void) {
     if (curiosity_interval < 1) {
       curiosity_interval = 1;
     }
-    el_val_t should_scan = ((!did_work && (idle_n > 0)) && idle_n);
-    EL_NULL;
-    ((curiosity_interval == 0) && !idle_n);
-    (beat_interval == 0);
-    EL_NULL;
-    if (should_scan) {
-      el_val_t found_something = proactive_curiosity();
-    }
-    el_val_t should_beat = ((!did_work && (idle_n > 0)) && idle_n);
-    EL_NULL;
-    (beat_interval == 0);
+    el_val_t should_beat = ((!did_work && (idle_n > 0)) && (idle_n >= beat_interval));
     if (should_beat) {
       emit_heartbeat();
       idle_reset();
     }
+    el_val_t should_scan = (((!did_work && (idle_n > 0)) && (idle_n >= curiosity_interval)) && !should_beat);
+    if (should_scan) {
+      el_val_t found_something = proactive_curiosity();
+      idle_reset();
+    }
     sleep_ms(tick_ms);
   }
   return 0;