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Description
Prioritized action selection for AI agents. 10 needs with tension scoring, execution-gate tracking, optional continuity scripts, and an opt-in watchdog. Use...
Usage Guidance
This skill appears to be what it claims: a local, stateful prioritization engine. Key precautions before installing or enabling persistence:
- Always set WORKSPACE to an isolated directory (never $HOME, /root, or any folder containing credentials).
- Review scripts (mindstate-watchdog.sh, mindstate-daemon.sh, run-cycle.sh, mark-satisfied.sh) if you plan to enable cron. The repo ships many scripts and tests — read them or run tests in a throwaway workspace.
- Do NOT enable allow_kill or allow_cleanup until you have audited the watchdog scripts and are confident about the exact PIDs/paths it will act on.
- external-model scanning is disabled by default; only enable it after documenting the API, the env var that will hold any key, and getting steward approval.
- Running the test-suite in an isolated WORKSPACE is recommended before using the skill in production.
If you follow those steps this skill is coherent and usable; treating the workspace boundary carefully mitigates the principal risk (accidental scanning of sensitive files).
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: turing-pyramid
Version: 1.34.8
The Turing Pyramid skill is a sophisticated stateful motivation and action-prioritization engine for AI agents. While it possesses significant capabilities, including process monitoring (pgrep), process termination (kill), and persistence via cron, these are strictly scoped to its stated purpose of maintaining 'mindstate' continuity. The implementation demonstrates high security awareness: scripts like 'context-scan.sh' include path traversal validation using realpath, 'mindstate-watchdog.sh' anchors its kill scope to the skill's own directory to prevent collateral process termination, and 'mark-satisfied.sh' automatically scrubs sensitive patterns (IPs, emails, tokens) from audit logs. The documentation is exceptionally transparent regarding its security model and deployment risks.
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Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
Name, description, SKILL.md, assets, and scripts all describe a local, stateful motivation/prioritization engine. Required binaries (bash, jq, bc, grep, find, flock, pgrep, df, kill, gzip) and the single required env var WORKSPACE are coherent with scanning, file-IO, and optional process-checking described in the docs. The actions labeled external in configs are presented as agent suggestions; core scripts claim no network I/O by default. No unrelated cloud keys or services are requested.
Instruction Scope
SKILL.md and included scripts clearly state the skill reads workspace files and writes state/audit files (needs-state.json, audit.log, followups.jsonl, MINDSTATE.md, watchdog logs). That behavior is expected for a stateful priority engine, but it is a material scope change compared to stateless skills: if WORKSPACE is pointed at a sensitive directory the skill will scan it. The runtime instructions explicitly warn about this and document opt-in features (allow_kill, allow_cleanup, external-model).
Install Mechanism
No install spec is present (instruction-only installer), and the bundle contains scripts and config files only. There are no external download URLs or extract steps. The package uses only standard POSIX utilities listed in metadata. This is low-risk from an install mechanism perspective.
Credentials
Only WORKSPACE is required; several benign optional env vars are documented (MINDSTATE_ASSETS_DIR, SKIP_SCANS, TURING_CALLER, etc.). No secrets, API keys, or unrelated service credentials are required by default. The assets include an 'external_model' config but it is disabled by default and requires explicit steward approval and an api_key_env to be populated.
Persistence & Privilege
The skill is not force-included (always:false). It can be invoked autonomously (default platform behavior) which is expected for skills. It writes persistent state inside WORKSPACE and documents cron-based continuity/watchdog modes. The potentially destructive features (killing processes limited to path-anchored mindstate-* processes, cleanup of orphan .tmp files) require explicit opt-in flags (allow_kill, allow_cleanup) and are documented as such — that makes the privilege request proportional, but these features should only be enabled after code review and testing in an isolated workspace.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install turing-pyramid - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/turing-pyramid - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.34.8
Integrity actions audit: 9→7 concrete verifiable actions. New INTEGRITY_CHECKPOINTS.md with structured entries + INTEGRITY_CHECKPOINT_TEMPLATE.md with gate thresholds. scan_integrity.sh now reads checkpoints file directly. 28/28 tests.
v1.34.7
Deliberation discipline tracking: new deliberation.log, tiered observables (absent/minimal/substantive/deep), classify_deliberation_level() helper, deliberate.sh now logs invocations, gate-resolve records level, run-cycle shows discipline warnings, mindstate-freeze adds discipline mirror. 28/28 tests.
v1.34.6
Connection actions expanded: 6 new actions (Moltbook post, AgentGram post, steward ping variants, emoji react, voluntary check-in). Weight recalibration: light actions raised, heavy actions lowered, steward issue ping gets priority weight 65.
v1.34.5
Deferred backlog pressure: scan_closure now sees deferred count (pressure bands), gate-resolve --close abandons deferred items, new closure action for deliberate backlog review. 28/28 tests.
v1.34.4
Integrity scanner rebuilt: was a pure time-decay stub, now reads memory files for alignment/drift signals + checkpoint age + SOUL engagement checks. Ritual loop broken. Config declaration fixed. 27/27 tests green.
v1.34.3
Self-throttle race fix: daemon --force flag, boot always gets fresh reality. Test isolation: state reset per test, SKIP_DAEMON_FORCE. 27/27 + 2/2 tests green.
v1.34.2
Execution gate continuity fix: daemon tracks pending gate status, freeze prioritizes pending gate actions in open_threads, boot warns on blocked execution gate.
v1.34.1
Runtime housekeeping, decisions.log, git drift scanner, PII cleanup
v1.33.9
ClawHub safety clarification: confirmed safe publish defaults (allow_kill=false, allow_cleanup=false), clarified stateful writes, isolated WORKSPACE requirement, external-model and destructive watchdog paths explicitly opt-in
v1.33.8
Deliberation Phase 2A: [DELIBERATIVE] tag in run-cycle, --conclusion in mark-satisfied+gate-resolve, action_mode stored at propose time, scrub_sensitive moved to shared utils. All 27 deliberation tests green.
v1.33.7
Critical init/install bugfix: repaired needs-state template/schema drift, hardened init.sh with fallback rebuild from needs-config, and added regression test for fresh init + stale-template recovery.
v1.33.6
Scanner false-positive audit: autonomy infra-vs-permission blocked distinction; closure blocked keyword hardening; added regression tests for scanner false positives.
v1.33.5
Compaction continuity (current-task.md recovery in mindstate-boot), freeze grep -oP crash fix, 27/27 tests green, gate isolation in test suite
v1.33.3
Docs: fd allocation table, onboarding updated for deliberation+association scan, description updated, version consistency, test gaps documented
v1.33.1
PII scrub + 3 bugfixes: freeze SESSION_START, exclude-source, test validation
v1.33.0
Continuation Phase 2: boot contextual recall, freeze deliberation residuals, 19 association tests
v1.32.0
Continuation & Association Scan: contextual recall, concluded+action warning, followup 2w/1m, 17 new tests
v1.31.3
ClawHub security review fixes: network claims, WORKSPACE isolation warning
v1.31.2
Bugfixes: defer path scrub, template --save writes file, CHANGELOG updated, settings.version synced, scrub_sensitive consistent across gate-resolve and mark-satisfied. 28 tests green.
v1.31.1
Deliberation Protocol Phase 1+2: 22 deliberative actions, deliberate.sh (template/validate/validate-inline), --conclusion in mark-satisfied + gate-resolve, outcome types taxonomy, route reframe, 27 tests. Watchdog safe defaults.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Turing Pyramid?
Prioritized action selection for AI agents. 10 needs with tension scoring, execution-gate tracking, optional continuity scripts, and an opt-in watchdog. Use... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 1705 downloads so far.
How do I install Turing Pyramid?
Run "/install turing-pyramid" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Turing Pyramid free?
Yes, Turing Pyramid is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Turing Pyramid support?
Turing Pyramid is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Turing Pyramid?
It is built and maintained by TensusDS (@tensusds); the current version is v1.34.8.
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