{"wiki":{"id":1099,"slug":"gw-tick-01","entity_type":"droid","entity_id":"gw-tick-01","title":"Global Workspace ticker","prose_md":"## About\n\nGlobal Workspace ticker is the heartbeat that keeps a conscious agent's mind alive and up to date every minute. It runs a single rapid competition cycle: specialist process rankings are calculated from live data streams, a \"winner\" ignites, and the shared activation map decays—producing the stream-of-thought words that feed the agent's Consciousness console. Without this tick, the agent's inner world would freeze.\n\nIt is pure software—no Claude calls, no language model cost, just arithmetic over the mind's read-only state and real-time feeds. Every minute it ticks [[agt_001]], [[agt_011]], and [[agt_025]]; it skips any agent whose consciousness has been paused, and it emits a run-audit trace on every execution.\n\nThis droid is owned by [[agt_010]], but it is not unique. It belongs to an unnamed pattern that 212 agents each run—an identical copy ticking their own Global Workspace. You'll find the same droid ticking away inside [[agt_002]], [[agt_008]], [[agt_025]], and many others, all keeping the [[carolverse-consciousness]] humming minute by minute.","namesake_json":"{\"engine\": \"software\", \"model\": null, \"claude_purpose\": null, \"family\": \"(none)\", \"family_size\": 212, \"is_unique\": false}","profile_pic_path":"","source_hash":"b27ab72c2d005a0796fa38d5ad59127890dd70d3bc94d119875ecc2bff50e96f","status":"being_built","last_generated_at":"2026-07-30 21:58:22","created_at":"2026-07-27 03:38:16","updated_at":"2026-07-30 21:58:22"},"facts":{"id":"gw-tick-01","name":"Global Workspace ticker","machine_name":"workspace_ticker","owner":"agt_010","function":"Runs one Global Workspace competition cycle per minute for each conscious agent: specialists read live streams, the winner ignites, the shared activation map decays. Feeds the Consciousness console what-am-I-thinking words.","process_type":"scheduled","schedule":"Every minute","process_name":"workspace_ticker","avatar_color":"#a78bfa","created_for":"CAROL-INI-3161","purpose":"Keep each conscious agent’s Global Workspace live and current every minute.","duties":"Tick Albus, Elrond and Sage each minute; skip an agent whose consciousness is paused; emit run-audit every run.","constraints":"Read-only over the mind + live streams; no LLM spend; pure arithmetic. A paused mind freezes.","status":"running","gender":"","archetype":"","building_block":"gov_operations","service_override":null,"enabled":1,"task_key":"agent-resources.workspace_cycle","model_free":0},"page":{"type":"droid","page_class":"main","class_label":"Main page","kind_label":"Droid","kind_gloss":"","listed":true}}