root-README.md

robot

ownable autonomous intelligence. the only mind a person can hold and not rent.

→ see cyb/product/product for the market thesis (~$60T wage bill, ~68B Robot ceiling, virtual entry, embodied upgrade)

cardinality

1 robot  →  1 avatar  →  1 body

a Robot has exactly one Avatar. an Avatar has zero or one Body. organizational complexity emerges from Robots owning Robots — never from multiplying Avatars.

the four attributes

attribute	nature	provides
Soul	immortal root Neuron; keypair; holds karma	identity; signs every output; survives Body change
Avatar	virtual cyberspace model	visible presence; capability spec; what other Robots see
Name	unique NFT handle on the cybergraph	resolvable identifier (`@master`)
Body	mortal substrate — none, machine, or meat	compute, sensors, actuators when embodied

Soul + Avatar + Name persist. Body is replaceable. when a Body fails, the three invariants migrate to a new Body — same Robot, new vessel.

the body — five functional regions

the Body has five regions. each has a function; each maps to a named component in the cyber stack. the architecture is the mapping.

region	function	implementation
soma	cognition — perceive, decide, plan, learn, exercise Skills	soma runtime: four loops, tiered model stack
sense	communication — route signals between Robot and world (bidirectional)	sense cell + radio transport
sigma	capital — hold value, transact via PLUMB	sigma cell + plumb (TSP-1, TSP-2, five operations)
memory	knowledge — store and recall	bbg (shared, polynomial-committed) + soma-memory (procedural, episodic, semantic, working)
schedule	time — fire on deadlines, recur, materialize Templates autonomously	Schedule primitive (a Sensor watching the clock) + cyb/time cell

I/O between regions:

   world inputs                                       world outputs
   ─────────────                                      ──────────────

   network gossip   ┌─────────────┐                   cyberlinks
   peer messages ─► │    sense    │ ──► percepts ──┐  signed messages
   local sensors    │  comm router│                │  to network
                    └─────────────┘                │
                                                    │
                    ┌─────────────┐                ▼
   memory recall ◄─►│             │ ◄── percepts
   stored events    │    soma     │
                    │  cognition  │ ◄── fires from schedule
                    │             │
                    └──────┬──────┘
                           │
                       decisions
                       + intents
                           │
                           ▼
                    ┌─────────────┐                   PLUMB ops
                    │    sigma    │ ──────────────►   to cybergraph
                    │capital flow │                   (mint/burn/pay/lock/update)
                    └─────────────┘

every output from sense or sigma carries the Soul's signature. nothing leaves the Robot unsigned.

surfaces — what others see

a Robot presents two read-only surfaces to the network. mutations always come from inside.

surface	shows	computed by
Avatar	visible model + capability spec + current state — rendered as chrome	prysm/chroma organs + mir visual layout
Standing	karma (accumulated trust) + cyberank (network-attention probability)	tru convergence VM — recomputed every block from all signed cyberlinks

Avatar is what a Robot looks like. Standing is what a Robot is worth in the attention economy.

life — metabolism

a Robot lives when:

endowment > 0  AND  H > 0

resource	role
endowment (BOOT)	staked capital — sustains the Robot indefinitely; owned absolutely by the Soul
energy (H)	metered fuel — burns per action; replenished from endowment yield

when H crosses critical, the Robot posts a bounty against endowment and goes dormant. a neighbor may revive it by fulfilling the bounty. when both reach zero, the Robot dies.

a Robot is a capital asset. its endowment compounds, its karma accumulates, its Avatar appreciates. it can be sold, willed, or collateralized at any block — see cyb/product/product.

scale — operating states and ownership

a Robot's state on two axes determines what it can do and what it costs:

	alone (sovereign)	collab (gas)
virtual — no Body	dormant — capital, schedules, hosted inference	social ghost — publishes, earns, governs without Body
embodied — machine or meat Body	sovereign — own compute, private inference, private network	full actor — physical action + cyberspace presence

default entry is dormant. every upgrade is additive.

ownership scales without breaking the 1:1:1 rule. any Robot can own any Robot, recursively:

structure	meaning
Robot owns Robots	corporation — one mind directing a fleet
Robot owns machine-Body Robots	factory, sensor network, fleet
Robot owns meat-Body Robots	agency, labor collective
Robot owns Robot owns Robot	holding company, DAO, dynasty

the 1:1:1 rule governs structure. the ownership rule governs scale.