Sleep
Sleep ends a conversation. In clanka chat you send /sleep; an MCP host
calls the sleep tool when the user says goodnight.
While it sleeps, the companion:
- raises the threads that were left open too long,
- writes the night’s episode in its own voice,
- settles its mood,
- lets the memories that came up tonight drift.
Drift is how much a memory blurs. The drift trait sets the amount: 0 is a
tape recorder. Faint memories shift the most, vivid ones only in detail, and
seared ones never.
Sleep needs the [model]. If it fails before the
episode is written, the session stays open and you can try again.
Getting tired
Each turn’s context has a budget (--budget, 6000 estimated tokens by
default). The persona, the recalled memories and the mood come first; what is
left is for the conversation so far. Once the conversation fills the
tired_at share of that room the companion gets tired, and past the
sleep_at share it asks to sleep. It asks, but never forces it.
Dreams
After the companion has slept, a message that starts with ~~ sends it into
a dream. What you write there is what happens to it, as “you”. It lives the
dream in first person without knowing it is dreaming, with its temperament
louder and its life hazy.
In a dream, a message that starts with << shows it an echo, a scene from
the past.
you> ~~ You're standing in your mother's kitchen. It is too quiet.
you> << >>3 Years ago, in this room, the judge reads the sentence aloud.Waking
The companion wakes:
- when it chooses to, over something it cannot bear or that turns against a core value or a seared memory. It has to quote what you wrote in the dream: nothing it imagines wakes it.
- when the dream fills the session,
- on
/sleep.
What stays
Waking keeps the companion’s mood, a few fragments that come back only in later dreams, and at most one seared memory: a name, date or place that an echo showed and that you had also written while it was awake. Anything the dream made up fades.
Leaving mid-dream keeps nothing.
Out of earshot
Anywhere in a waking message, text between || and || is said out of the
companion’s earshot. It is told not to acknowledge it, and memory never keeps
it, until an echo reveals it.
you> Dinner was fine. ||I haven't told her about the job yet.||Reply length
>>N at the start of a message asks for a reply of about N paragraphs.
you> >>3 Tell me about the cello lesson.