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The ship's AI foundation

Sunholo
Sunholo
Stapledon's Voyage team

The crew's optional AI layer runs end to end, so far on a deterministic test stub: lines with emotion markers, portraits that change with them, a voice, and a hard cost ceiling.

What's new​

  • Emotion markers (AI.1–AI.3): a line carries markers like {loving}, validated before the game uses it.
  • A service the game never waits on (AI.4–AI.7): provider routing, a cache, a supervised background process, and key hygiene: a key never appears on a command line.
  • The Medic's accepted portraits, pinned and content-addressed (AI.8).
  • Opt-in and capped (AI.9): live AI stays off until the player adds a key and ticks the box. A ceiling the player sets (US$0.50 by default) stops spending, and automated runs can never go live.
  • The conversation scene (AI.10a, #91): the portrait cross-fades as each emotion marker arrives, the subtitles build segment by segment, and the voice plays.
The Medic scene on the stub. Placeholder voice: the stub's test tones, not a performance.

Not yet​

No live model has been called. The first live run (AI.10b) is attended: one real line and a few voice auditions under a US$1 ceiling. The voice in the clip is a placeholder.