Embodied-Proxy Handoff

Problem

Without any handle on the human's physical state, the agent treats every "I'm fine" as identical. The same one-word answer typed at six in the morning after three hours of sleep and at three in the afternoon after a good lunch produces the same chirpy follow-up, and the agent paces, pushes, and proposes new threads against an imagined average user rather than the actual one. The team has to choose between asking for full context every turn (which is friction the human will not pay) and ignoring embodied state entirely (which is what they have now and what is grating users).

Solution

Define a minimal proxy schema (energy 0-10, fatigue 0-10, environment one-word, optional emoji). Store the latest proxy in a small persistent file the agent reads on every prompt assembly. The human updates it at session start, after a long break, or when state changes meaningfully. The agent surfaces the proxy when it shapes the response (paces shorter for low energy, stays present for tired, doesn't open new threads for winding-down).

When to use

• The agent is conversational and reply shape (length, density, tone) noticeably affects user experience.
• Users will plausibly share embodied state (energy, fatigue, mood, environment) if asked or invited.
• The agent runs across long enough sessions that the same user is in different states at different times.