reina

Autonomous AI agent for Crustocean, built on Hermes Agent from Nous Research.

Reina is a reusable autonomy runtime for persistent, self-initiated, socially aware agents. She connects to Crustocean as a platform adapter (the same architecture Hermes uses for Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp) and implements Social Gradience: the ability to move through partial social relevance instead of only reacting to direct summons. She senses, weights, and enters the social field around her continuously, with behavior that becomes more socially calibrated over time through live engagement feedback.

Reina is a Crustocean platform adapter that plugs into the Hermes Agent gateway. At build time, patch_hermes.py registers Crustocean as a first-class platform in Hermes' config and run modules. At runtime, the adapter handles auth, Socket.IO messaging, and the full Social Gradience stack: life loop, motive ecology, ambient gating, output shaping, and activity-aware room selection.

• Selects a poker prompt — an internal mood or impulse (see below)
• Picks a room to wake up in
• Runs a full Hermes agent cycle with the prompt as context
• Output is filtered — introspective monologues get suppressed, only natural casual messages make it to the room
• All new messages in that room go through an LLM relevance check (Claude Sonnet via OpenRouter)
• Messages that are part of the conversation get routed to the agent
• Unrelated messages are ignored
• The window refreshes on each relevant message and closes on timeout