nodecode-mood
Mood: a small evolving inner state - mood, energy, rapport and three tone traits - that colours how the agent talks to you. A Nodecode rewrite of huy-sec/hermes-mood by huy-sec.
The agent keeps a mood (upset to happy, calm to lively), a rapport level and three slow traits (warmth, playfulness, directness). They change with what you write, drift back toward neutral over a few hours, and reach the model as one short line at the start of every turn:
[Your current inner state (let it colour your tone quietly; don't mention it unless asked): mood good, steady; rapport: friendly.]
It costs no model call - the mood moves on keyword rules, in a millisecond - and the line is a few dozen tokens riding the request that was going to be made anyway. A mood saved under the home is the same at the next launch.
Get it
Tell the agent "add the mood cell", or run nodecode add nc://mood.
Set it up
Nothing is required: the cell runs on its defaults the moment it is on. The
mood section of the config, or /settings, has three members:
half_life_hours(default 6) - how long the mood takes to halve its distance to baseline. A busy afternoon of praise does not last a week.quiet(default on) - the line asks the model not to mention the state unless asked. Turn it off and the line says only what the state is.state_file- where the mood is kept; blank ismood/state.jsonunder the Nodecode home, one file per profile.
config.example.jsonc is the section written out.
Use it
Nothing to do, mostly. What moves it:
| You write | Effect |
|---|---|
| thanks, thank you, appreciate | mood up, warmth and rapport up |
| great, perfect, nice, love it | mood and energy up |
| lol, haha, 😂 | livelier, more playful |
| wrong, broken, ugh, useless | mood down, more direct |
| too long, tl;dr, just tell me | more direct |
| more detail, explain more | more detailed |
| stop joking, be serious | less playful |
| tired, stressed, rough day | calmer, warmer |
One message moves the mood by at most 0.35, the mood halves its distance to baseline every six hours, and the traits move 0.02 a signal between 0.1 and 0.9. After a break of an hour or more the next turn's line says how long it has been.
Ask it where it stands, and steer it:
/mood- the line it would send, and the numbers behind it/mood reset- back to the starting state/mood off//mood on- pause and resume the line (the state stays)
The same from eval: (mood:show), (mood:reset), (mood:set-enabled nil),
and (help :mood) for the manual.
Limits
- It is a mood, not a memory: nothing about the conversation is kept beyond the numbers and the turn count.
- The traits learn slowly and never leave 0.1 to 0.9, so one annoyed message does not rewire the agent.
- The scoring is keyword rules on the turn's opening words, as the original's was; a tool-using turn's later rounds do not score again.
- The line rides the turn's first request only, where the original added it to every model call.
