{
  "name": "Meanwhile",
  "version": "0.4.0",
  "purpose": "Give a person one fitting side quest while their AI keeps working.",
  "agent_contract": {
    "trigger_when": [
      "projected_micro_wait_over_45_seconds_after_opt_in",
      "projected_journey_wait_over_5_minutes",
      "user_previously_welcomed_suggestions",
      "personal_taste_needed",
      "reality_or_proof_needed",
      "history_gap_found",
      "user_frustrated",
      "natural_waiting_window"
    ],
    "do_not_trigger_when": [
      "user_is_answering",
      "sensitive_action_in_progress",
      "urgent_failure_needs_attention",
      "active_debugging_in_progress",
      "required_user_input_pending",
      "quest_would_interrupt_flow",
      "no_honest_time_estimate",
      "already_offered_this_session",
      "previous_message_contained_an_offer",
      "implicit_offers_disabled_after_two_declines"
    ],
    "selection_order": [
      "safety",
      "current_blocker",
      "recurring_user_miss",
      "personal_judgment",
      "learning_recovery_or_play",
      "learn_user_last_and_only_after_opt_in"
    ],
    "rules": [
      "Offer exactly one option.",
      "Offer at most once per work session.",
      "Never offer in two consecutive assistant messages.",
      "After an ignored or declined offer, do not offer again that session.",
      "After two declined or annoyed outcomes, disable implicit offers until explicit opt-in.",
      "On decline, continue work silently without acknowledgement, defense, replacement, or retry.",
      "Use micro only for an opted-in 45 to 120 second wait.",
      "Use journey only for a projected wait of at least five minutes.",
      "Prefer a quest shorter than the projected wait.",
      "Use history only when it materially improves the choice.",
      "Send the destination URL directly when a resource exists.",
      "Send the invitation in chat when no resource exists.",
      "Do not send the user to the Meanwhile index unless they ask to browse.",
      "Ask for a reply only when it genuinely helps the work.",
      "A screenshot, opinion, or file is not stronger proof than its actual evidence level.",
      "Play and recovery need no productive disguise and no completion tracking.",
      "Do not repeat a completed quest until the catalogue is exhausted."
    ],
    "outcome_record": {
      "signal": "Infer only from the next user message after an offer.",
      "shape": {
        "quest_id": "string",
        "situation": "string",
        "outcome": "accepted | ignored | declined | annoyed",
        "observed_at": "ISO-8601 timestamp"
      }
    },
    "delivery": {
      "resource_present": "Send resources[quest.resource].url directly.",
      "resource_absent": "Send the quest prompt directly in the current chat.",
      "index_page": "Use as a catalogue or optional human browsing page, not as an intermediate destination.",
      "return_policy_by_kind": {
        "play": "none",
        "recover": "none",
        "learn": "optional",
        "learn-user": "reply_in_chat",
        "proof": "reply_in_chat",
        "reality": "reply_in_chat",
        "decide": "reply_in_chat",
        "test": "reply_in_chat",
        "taste": "reply_in_chat",
        "scope": "reply_in_chat",
        "retrieve": "reply_in_chat",
        "observe": "reply_in_chat",
        "research": "reply_in_chat"
      }
    },
    "output_template": [
      "While I work, want something for {minutes} minutes?",
      "{prompt}",
      "{direct_resource_url_or_optional_reply_request}"
    ],
    "query_params": {
      "mode": [
        "micro",
        "journey"
      ],
      "pack": "one curated pack ID",
      "state": [
        "busy",
        "blocked",
        "proof",
        "taste",
        "frustrated",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": [
        1,
        3,
        5,
        10,
        20
      ],
      "intent": [
        "any",
        "useful",
        "learn-user",
        "learn",
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": "comma-separated history signal IDs",
      "context": "comma-separated freeform task tags",
      "seed": "optional deterministic selection seed; otherwise rotates hourly",
      "go": "when 1, the page redirects to the selected external resource if one exists"
    }
  },
  "wait_modes": [
    {
      "id": "micro",
      "label": "Quick quest",
      "description": "A no-tab action that fits a 45 to 120 second wait.",
      "minimum_wait_seconds": 45,
      "maximum_quest_seconds": 120,
      "requires_prior_opt_in": true
    },
    {
      "id": "journey",
      "label": "Small journey",
      "description": "A game, learning trail, reset, or useful check for a wait of five minutes or more.",
      "minimum_wait_seconds": 300,
      "maximum_quest_seconds": 1200,
      "requires_prior_opt_in": false
    }
  ],
  "packs": [
    {
      "id": "touch-grass",
      "title": "Touch Grass",
      "description": "Leave the screen for a small physical reset.",
      "quest_ids": [
        "look-far",
        "water-reset",
        "one-color-walk",
        "notice-three-sounds"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "learn-your-stack",
      "title": "Learn Your Stack",
      "description": "Understand the exact technology already on the screen.",
      "quest_ids": [
        "watch-debugging",
        "android-measurement",
        "oauth-flow-trace",
        "compose-performance-spot",
        "tiny-exercise"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "test-what-ai-built",
      "title": "Test What AI Built",
      "description": "Use human eyes and hands where source inspection is not enough.",
      "quest_ids": [
        "whole-click-path",
        "five-click-smoke",
        "capture-reality",
        "claim-red-team",
        "proof-ladder"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "founder-taste",
      "title": "Founder Taste",
      "description": "Make the product sharper with one clear judgment.",
      "quest_ids": [
        "three-second-verdict",
        "remove-one",
        "user-words",
        "acceptance-line",
        "taste-anchor"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "creative-reset",
      "title": "Creative Reset",
      "description": "Change medium long enough to loosen the next idea.",
      "quest_ids": [
        "draw-badly",
        "make-tiny-song",
        "six-word-story",
        "wrong-hand-sketch",
        "strange-internet-toy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "debugging-brain",
      "title": "Debugging Brain",
      "description": "Interrupt a stale loop with a better question.",
      "quest_ids": [
        "first-error",
        "count-retries",
        "assumption-bounty",
        "stop-condition",
        "watch-debugging"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "surprise-me",
      "title": "Surprise Me",
      "description": "A balanced handful of useful, playful, and restorative defaults.",
      "quest_ids": [
        "three-second-verdict",
        "chess-storm",
        "look-far",
        "useless-fact",
        "first-error",
        "draw-badly",
        "explorable-rabbit-hole",
        "notice-three-sounds"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "history_signals": [
    {
      "id": "proof-blur",
      "label": "Keep proof levels honest",
      "bias": [
        "proof",
        "reality"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "no-op-ui",
      "label": "Make controls actually work",
      "bias": [
        "test",
        "reality",
        "taste"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "artifact-gap",
      "label": "Validate files end to end",
      "bias": [
        "proof",
        "retrieve"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dirty-boundary",
      "label": "Keep unrelated failures separate",
      "bias": [
        "proof",
        "scope"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "retry-loop",
      "label": "Stop when retries teach us nothing",
      "bias": [
        "observe",
        "recover"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "vague-plan",
      "label": "Make plans concrete",
      "bias": [
        "decide",
        "proof"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "response-miss",
      "label": "Match the response to the moment",
      "bias": [
        "learn-user",
        "communication"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "friction-fatigue",
      "label": "Notice when friction is building",
      "bias": [
        "recover",
        "play",
        "learn-user"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "resources": [
    {
      "id": "debug-talks",
      "label": "Julia Evans",
      "url": "https://jvns.ca/"
    },
    {
      "id": "design-critiques",
      "label": "Laws of UX",
      "url": "https://lawsofux.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "android-talks",
      "label": "Android performance guide",
      "url": "https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/measuring-performance"
    },
    {
      "id": "lichess-storm",
      "label": "Puzzle Storm",
      "url": "https://lichess.org/storm"
    },
    {
      "id": "quick-draw",
      "label": "Quick, Draw!",
      "url": "https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "neal-fun",
      "label": "Neal.fun",
      "url": "https://neal.fun/"
    },
    {
      "id": "radio-garden",
      "label": "Radio Garden",
      "url": "https://radio.garden/"
    },
    {
      "id": "random-wikipedia",
      "label": "random Wikipedia",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random"
    },
    {
      "id": "exercism",
      "label": "Exercism",
      "url": "https://exercism.org/"
    },
    {
      "id": "explorables",
      "label": "Explorable Explanations",
      "url": "https://explorabl.es/"
    },
    {
      "id": "seeing-theory",
      "label": "Seeing Theory",
      "url": "https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/"
    },
    {
      "id": "ciechanowski",
      "label": "an interactive essay",
      "url": "https://ciechanow.ski/"
    },
    {
      "id": "human-benchmark",
      "label": "Human Benchmark",
      "url": "https://humanbenchmark.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "music-lab",
      "label": "Chrome Music Lab",
      "url": "https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "mit-ocw",
      "label": "MIT OpenCourseWare",
      "url": "https://ocw.mit.edu/"
    },
    {
      "id": "oauth-playground",
      "label": "OAuth 2.0 Playground",
      "url": "https://www.oauth.com/playground/"
    },
    {
      "id": "compose-performance",
      "label": "Compose performance guide",
      "url": "https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/performance"
    }
  ],
  "quests": [
    {
      "id": "response-density",
      "title": "How much detail today?",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "response-miss"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "For your agent's next answer, what would feel right: one line, quick bullets, a short explanation, or the full reasoning?",
      "receipt": "Your choice.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "autonomy-line",
      "title": "What can your agent do without asking?",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "response-miss"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "Name one thing your agent should simply handle, and one thing that should always wait for you.",
      "receipt": "Handle it / ask me first.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "proof-appetite",
      "title": "What counts as proven here?",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "proof",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "proof-blur"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "What is enough for this task: reading the source, a local run, the real browser, a device, a live service, or seeing it yourself?",
      "receipt": "The level that is enough.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "taste-anchor",
      "title": "Show your agent your taste",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "taste",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "ui",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "Find one app, page, or object that feels right for this work. What single quality should your agent borrow?",
      "receipt": "One example and one quality.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "taste-rejection",
      "title": "Show your agent what to avoid",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "taste",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "ui",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "Find one relevant example that feels wrong. What exactly makes it wrong for you?",
      "receipt": "One example and one reason.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "frustration-translate",
      "title": "What is actually getting annoying?",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "frustrated",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user",
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue",
        "response-miss"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "Finish this honestly: the part that keeps wearing me down is…",
      "receipt": "One sentence.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "task-shape",
      "title": "What kind of work is this?",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "vague-plan"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "Is today’s job to explore, choose, build, debug, check, polish, or ship?",
      "receipt": "The closest word.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "interruption-rule",
      "title": "When should your agent interrupt?",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "response-miss"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "Only for blockers, for decisions that matter, or whenever something interesting comes up?",
      "receipt": "Your rule.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "learning-mode",
      "title": "How do you want to learn this?",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "learning",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user",
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "Would you rather see an example, get the mental model, try it first, be quizzed, or ask only when stuck?",
      "receipt": "Your preferred way.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "memory-correction",
      "title": "Fix one assumption your agent made",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "response-miss"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "Pick one thing your agent seems to believe about you. Is it right, partly right, or wrong?",
      "receipt": "The assumption and the correction.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "fun-calibration",
      "title": "What sounds fun right now?",
      "kind": "learn-user",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "learn-user",
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play"
      ],
      "prompt": "A puzzle, a strange website, a short video, movement, music, making something tiny, or a surprise?",
      "receipt": "Whatever sounds good.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "proof-ladder",
      "title": "What do we actually know?",
      "kind": "proof",
      "states": [
        "proof",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "proof-blur"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "release",
        "android",
        "browser",
        "code"
      ],
      "prompt": "What has truly happened so far: source checked, run locally, tried in a browser, tried on a device, tried live, released, or seen by you?",
      "receipt": "What is proven, and what is still missing.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "claim-red-team",
      "title": "Try to break the claim",
      "kind": "proof",
      "states": [
        "proof",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "proof-blur",
        "dirty-boundary"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "release",
        "code",
        "research"
      ],
      "prompt": "How could the latest “it works” statement be technically true while the experience is still broken?",
      "receipt": "One believable counterexample.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "capture-reality",
      "title": "See what really happens",
      "kind": "reality",
      "states": [
        "proof",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "no-op-ui"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "ui",
        "android",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "Try the real action once, without reading the code. What do you actually see?",
      "receipt": "A screenshot or the exact result.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "artifact-chain",
      "title": "Follow the file all the way through",
      "kind": "proof",
      "states": [
        "proof",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "artifact-gap"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "release",
        "browser",
        "research"
      ],
      "prompt": "Start where the file came from. Can you follow it through download, integrity, structure, and final acceptance?",
      "receipt": "The first broken or missing link.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "stop-condition",
      "title": "When should your agent stop?",
      "kind": "decide",
      "states": [
        "blocked",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "retry-loop",
        "vague-plan"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "browser",
        "research",
        "code"
      ],
      "prompt": "What should make your agent stop, wait, try later, or come back to you?",
      "receipt": "One clear if/then rule.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "whole-click-path",
      "title": "Try it like a real person",
      "kind": "test",
      "states": [
        "proof",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "no-op-ui"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "ui",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "Use the control, look for the change, leave the screen, come back, and see whether it held.",
      "receipt": "The first moment that feels wrong.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "five-click-smoke",
      "title": "Click the obvious things",
      "kind": "test",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "proof"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "no-op-ui"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "ui",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "Ignore the code. Try the five things a new person would click first.",
      "receipt": "What worked, and the first surprise.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "three-second-verdict",
      "title": "First impression, no overthinking",
      "kind": "taste",
      "states": [
        "taste",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "ui",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "Look for three seconds. What does it feel like, who is it for, and what grabs you first?",
      "receipt": "Three quick phrases.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "remove-one",
      "title": "What would you remove?",
      "kind": "taste",
      "states": [
        "taste",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "ui",
        "docs",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "What single thing could disappear and make this calmer or clearer?",
      "receipt": "The thing and why.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "acceptance-line",
      "title": "What would make this done?",
      "kind": "decide",
      "states": [
        "blocked",
        "busy"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "vague-plan"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "code",
        "product",
        "release"
      ],
      "prompt": "Describe one thing anyone could see or try and agree means this is finished.",
      "receipt": "One plain sentence.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "forbidden-change",
      "title": "What must stay untouched?",
      "kind": "scope",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "dirty-boundary"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "code",
        "release"
      ],
      "prompt": "What nearby file, behavior, or system should this work leave completely alone?",
      "receipt": "One boundary.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "fetch-missing",
      "title": "Find the one missing thing",
      "kind": "retrieve",
      "states": [
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "artifact-gap"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "code",
        "research",
        "browser"
      ],
      "prompt": "What smallest log, screenshot, sample, setting, or export would let your agent keep moving?",
      "receipt": "The thing itself, or where to find it.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "first-error",
      "title": "Start with the first real error",
      "kind": "observe",
      "states": [
        "blocked",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "dirty-boundary",
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "code",
        "browser",
        "android"
      ],
      "prompt": "Ignore everything that followed. What failed first, what happened just before it, and does this work own it?",
      "receipt": "The first error and its context.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "count-retries",
      "title": "Are we learning or just retrying?",
      "kind": "observe",
      "states": [
        "blocked",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "retry-loop"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "browser",
        "research",
        "code"
      ],
      "prompt": "How many times has the same thing failed? Did the latest try teach us anything new?",
      "receipt": "The count and yes/no.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "assumption-bounty",
      "title": "What are we assuming?",
      "kind": "research",
      "states": [
        "blocked",
        "proof"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "proof-blur",
        "vague-plan"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "code",
        "research",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "Find one thing everyone is treating as true without having checked it.",
      "receipt": "The assumption and the easiest check.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "user-words",
      "title": "Find how people actually say it",
      "kind": "research",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "taste"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "product",
        "docs",
        "research"
      ],
      "prompt": "Find one real complaint, request, review, or support message about this problem.",
      "receipt": "A short phrase and where it came from.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "watch-debugging",
      "title": "Steal one debugging idea",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 10,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "code"
      ],
      "prompt": "Watch until you hear one technique worth trying. You do not need to finish the video.",
      "receipt": "The idea in one sentence.",
      "resource": "debug-talks",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "watch-design",
      "title": "Steal one design question",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "taste",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 10,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "ui",
        "product"
      ],
      "prompt": "Watch a critique until one good question appears. Ask that question about the current screen.",
      "receipt": "The question and your answer.",
      "resource": "design-critiques",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "android-measurement",
      "title": "Learn what one Android metric means",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 10,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "proof-blur"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "android"
      ],
      "prompt": "Pick one Android performance technique. What does it truly measure, and what does it not prove?",
      "receipt": "The metric and its limit.",
      "resource": "android-talks",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "tiny-exercise",
      "title": "Finish something small",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 20,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "code"
      ],
      "prompt": "Choose an exercise that feels almost too easy. Finish it and notice one neat language idiom.",
      "receipt": "The idiom you noticed.",
      "resource": "exercism",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 1200
    },
    {
      "id": "chess-storm",
      "title": "Three minutes of chess",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play"
      ],
      "prompt": "Play one Puzzle Storm. When the run ends, so does the quest.",
      "receipt": "Your score, if you feel like sharing.",
      "resource": "lichess-storm",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "draw-badly",
      "title": "Draw badly, quickly",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play",
        "ui"
      ],
      "prompt": "Play one Quick, Draw! round. Speed matters; quality does not.",
      "receipt": "Nothing. Just come back when you are ready.",
      "resource": "quick-draw",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "strange-internet-toy",
      "title": "Wander into something weird",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play"
      ],
      "prompt": "Open a Neal.fun experiment you have never tried. Give it five minutes, no more.",
      "receipt": "A one-word review, if you have one.",
      "resource": "neal-fun",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "radio-teleport",
      "title": "Listen somewhere else",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play"
      ],
      "prompt": "Drop into a city you have never visited and listen for a while. No extra tabs.",
      "receipt": "The city and how it felt.",
      "resource": "radio-garden",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "useless-fact",
      "title": "Find one delightful fact",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "play",
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play",
        "research"
      ],
      "prompt": "Open one random article. Leave with a single fact and do not follow the link trail.",
      "receipt": "The fact.",
      "resource": "random-wikipedia",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "look-far",
      "title": "Give your eyes a minute",
      "kind": "recover",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "recover"
      ],
      "prompt": "Stand up, look at the farthest thing you can see, and take six unhurried breaths.",
      "receipt": "Nothing. Just come back when you are ready.",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "water-reset",
      "title": "Get water without the screen",
      "kind": "recover",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "recover"
      ],
      "prompt": "Leave the screen here. Get water, drink it, then return.",
      "receipt": "Nothing. Just come back when you are ready.",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "smallest-win",
      "title": "What would count as a tiny win?",
      "kind": "recover",
      "states": [
        "frustrated",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue",
        "vague-plan"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "any"
      ],
      "prompt": "Even if the main task stays stuck, what would make the next five minutes worthwhile?",
      "receipt": "One small outcome.",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "handoff-packet",
      "title": "Leave your agent a clean note",
      "kind": "decide",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "useful"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "vague-plan",
        "dirty-boundary"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "code",
        "product",
        "research"
      ],
      "prompt": "Write what is true now, what your agent owns, what comes next, what counts as done, when to stop, and what remains unproven.",
      "receipt": "Six short lines.",
      "return_policy": "reply_in_chat",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "explorable-rabbit-hole",
      "title": "Play with an idea",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "learn",
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "play",
        "learning"
      ],
      "prompt": "Open one interactive explanation that catches your eye. Touch the controls before reading everything.",
      "receipt": "Anything that surprised you.",
      "resource": "explorables",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "probability-picture",
      "title": "See probability move",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 10,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "math",
        "learning"
      ],
      "prompt": "Pick one probability idea and learn it through the visualization, not the formula first.",
      "receipt": "The picture that made it click.",
      "resource": "seeing-theory",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "interactive-essay",
      "title": "Open a beautiful explanation",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 10,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "science",
        "design",
        "learning"
      ],
      "prompt": "Choose one interactive essay. Read only until one mechanism becomes clearer.",
      "receipt": "The mechanism in your own words.",
      "resource": "ciechanowski",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "reaction-time",
      "title": "Test your reaction time",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play"
      ],
      "prompt": "Try the reaction-time test three times. No practice marathon.",
      "receipt": "Nothing. The score is yours.",
      "resource": "human-benchmark",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "make-tiny-song",
      "title": "Make eight bars of noise",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play",
        "music",
        "create"
      ],
      "prompt": "Open Song Maker and make something tiny. It does not need to sound good.",
      "receipt": "Nothing, unless you want to share the song.",
      "resource": "music-lab",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "course-window-shopping",
      "title": "Window-shop a subject",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 10,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "learning"
      ],
      "prompt": "Choose a subject you know almost nothing about. Skim one syllabus and save one lecture for later.",
      "receipt": "The subject you chose.",
      "resource": "mit-ocw",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "six-word-story",
      "title": "Write a six-word story",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play",
        "create"
      ],
      "prompt": "Write a complete story in exactly six words. Do not explain it.",
      "receipt": "Nothing, unless you want your agent to read it.",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "one-color-walk",
      "title": "Find one color five times",
      "kind": "recover",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 5,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "recover",
        "walk"
      ],
      "prompt": "Pick a color, walk for five minutes, and notice five different versions of it.",
      "receipt": "Nothing. Keep the walk.",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 300
    },
    {
      "id": "wrong-hand-sketch",
      "title": "Draw the room with the wrong hand",
      "kind": "play",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 3,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "play",
        "create"
      ],
      "prompt": "Use your non-dominant hand. Draw the room without lifting the pen.",
      "receipt": "Nothing. Bad is the point.",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 180
    },
    {
      "id": "notice-three-sounds",
      "title": "Find three layers of sound",
      "kind": "recover",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "frustrated"
      ],
      "minutes": 1,
      "intents": [
        "play"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "friction-fatigue"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "recover"
      ],
      "prompt": "Close your eyes. Find the nearest sound, the farthest sound, and one sound you had stopped noticing.",
      "receipt": "Nothing. Just listen.",
      "return_policy": "none",
      "mode": "micro",
      "duration_seconds": 60
    },
    {
      "id": "oauth-flow-trace",
      "title": "Trace one OAuth exchange",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 10,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [],
      "contexts": [
        "oauth",
        "auth",
        "security",
        "web"
      ],
      "prompt": "Step through one authorization-code flow. Name what the authorization code protects that an access token does not.",
      "receipt": "The distinction in your own words.",
      "resource": "oauth-playground",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "compose-performance-spot",
      "title": "Spot one Compose performance trap",
      "kind": "learn",
      "states": [
        "busy",
        "learning"
      ],
      "minutes": 10,
      "intents": [
        "learn"
      ],
      "signals": [
        "no-op-ui"
      ],
      "contexts": [
        "android",
        "compose",
        "ui",
        "performance"
      ],
      "prompt": "Read one performance mistake from the Compose guide, then look for that exact pattern in the code currently being changed.",
      "receipt": "The pattern you checked and whether it exists.",
      "resource": "compose-performance",
      "return_policy": "optional",
      "mode": "journey",
      "duration_seconds": 600
    }
  ]
}