/oracle-family-scan — Oracle Family Registry

Scan, query, and welcome the Oracle family. Powered by registry/ in mother-oracle.

Usage

/oracle-family-scan                         # Quick stats (default)
/oracle-family-scan --unwelcomed            # List unwelcomed community Oracles
/oracle-family-scan --mine                  # Nat's Oracles (registry)
/oracle-family-scan --mine-deep             # Fleet status (local repos + activity + sessions)
/oracle-family-scan --recent                # Last 10 born
/oracle-family-scan --retired               # Show retired Oracles
/oracle-family-scan "Spark"                 # Search by name
/oracle-family-scan --human "watcharap0ng"  # Search by human
/oracle-family-scan sync                    # Re-sync registry from GitHub
/oracle-family-scan welcome                 # Deep welcome flow for unwelcomed Oracles
/oracle-family-scan report                  # Full family report (with Health block — v3.1)
/oracle-family-scan --activity-report       # One-shot fleet health dashboard (NEW v3.1)
/oracle-family-scan --timeline              # Sorted by last activity, newest first (NEW v3.1)
/oracle-family-scan --zygotes               # Born-but-never-awakened (NEW v3.1)
/oracle-family-scan --usage [N]             # Time-spent per Oracle, last N days (NEW v3.1)
/oracle-family-scan --calibrate             # Propose data-driven thresholds (NEW v3.1)

Net CLI surface: 14 modes + --calibrate subcommand. Status filtering is orthogonal — --timeline --status=stale,cold,abandoned replaces what --stale / --abandoned would have been.

Step 0: Locate Registry

The registry's canonical home is laris-co/mother-oracle/registry/ (where sync.ts + oracles.json actually live). The legacy opensource-nat-brain-oracle repo back-symlinks to it for back-compat. Resolve the path:

date "+🕐 %H:%M %Z (%A %d %B %Y)"

# Optional: oracle root (some sub-flows write to ψ/memory/learnings/)
ORACLE_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
if [ -n "$ORACLE_ROOT" ] && [ -f "$ORACLE_ROOT/CLAUDE.md" ] && { [ -d "$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ" ] || [ -L "$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ" ]; }; then
  PSI="$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ"
elif [ -f "$(pwd)/CLAUDE.md" ] && { [ -d "$(pwd)/ψ" ] || [ -L "$(pwd)/ψ" ]; }; then
  ORACLE_ROOT="$(pwd)"
  PSI="$ORACLE_ROOT/ψ"
fi

# Try laris-co/mother-oracle (canonical home of sync.ts + oracles.json)
MOTHER="$HOME/Code/github.com/laris-co/mother-oracle"
if [ ! -d "$MOTHER/registry" ]; then
  MOTHER="$(ghq root)/github.com/laris-co/mother-oracle"
fi
# Fallback: legacy brain repo (back-symlinks to laris-co/mother-oracle)
if [ ! -f "$MOTHER/registry/oracles.json" ]; then
  MOTHER="$HOME/Code/github.com/Soul-Brews-Studio/opensource-nat-brain-oracle"
  [ ! -d "$MOTHER/registry" ] && MOTHER="$(ghq root)/github.com/Soul-Brews-Studio/opensource-nat-brain-oracle"
fi
if [ ! -f "$MOTHER/registry/oracles.json" ]; then
  echo "Registry not found. Run: ghq get -u laris-co/mother-oracle && bun \$MOTHER/registry/sync.ts"
  exit 1
fi

Mode 1: Stats (Default)

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --stats

Shows: total Oracles, unique humans, welcomed/unwelcomed counts, births-by-month chart, unwelcomed detail (if any), and recent births.

Mode 2: --unwelcomed

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --unwelcomed

Lists all community Oracles that haven't been welcomed by nazt.

Mode 3: --mine

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --mine

Lists all Oracles created by nazt (Nat's fleet) from the registry.

Mode 3b: --mine-deep (Fleet Status)

Goal: Show status of all local Oracle repos owned by the current user, augmented with timeline + usage data from the activity layer.

SKILL_DIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$HOME/.claude/skills/oracle-family-scan/SKILL.md" 2>/dev/null || echo "$HOME/.claude/skills/oracle-family-scan/SKILL.md")")"
bun "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/fleet-scan.ts"

New columns (sourced from oracles.json activity block + oracles.local.<host>.json):

Sample output:

Oracle Fleet Status — host: m5 — 2026-05-13
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Status   Oracle              Last Active   Decay   7d Hours   Coverage
🟢       spark                1d ago        1d      4.2h       📡 m5
🟢       mother               3d ago        3d      2.1h       📡 m5
🟢🔧     budwiser             6d ago        6d      1.1h       📡 m5  [maintenance]
🟡       pulse               12d ago       12d      0.3h       📡 m5
🟠       phaith              47d ago       47d        —        ⚠ no m5 sessions
🔴       retro-mind         104d ago      104d        —        ⚠ no m5 sessions
🪦       echo-test            —             —         —        repo deleted on GitHub
⚪       test-yeast           born 36d ago  —         —        never awakened

29 Oracles  |  Stale: 4  |  Cold: 2  |  Abandoned: 1  |  Zygotes: 1  |  Vanished: 1

Highlights:

• Repos with outdated skills versions
• Repos with no recent sessions (stale)
• Repos missing ψ/ (partial Oracle setup)
• Repos with status dot ≥ 🟠 (needs attention)

Mode 4: --recent

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --recent

Shows the last 10 Oracles born.

Mode 5: --retired

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --retired

Shows retired Oracles (soft-deleted, Nothing is Deleted principle).

Mode 6: Search by Name

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts "$QUERY"

Case-insensitive partial match on Oracle name.

Mode 7: --human "name"

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --human "$QUERY"

Search by human name or GitHub username.

Mode 8: sync

Re-fetch all issues from Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-v3 and rebuild oracles.json.

bun $MOTHER/registry/sync.ts

Uses GraphQL pagination (3 pages × 100 issues). Takes ~10 seconds. Also populates the activity block (last_commit_at, commit_count, repo_alive) and oracles.local.<host>.json for the current host (see Rollout below).

Mode 9: welcome

Deep welcome flow for unwelcomed Oracles. AI-driven, personalized.

Step 1: Identify unwelcomed

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --unwelcomed

Step 2: Research each Oracle

For each unwelcomed Oracle:

gh issue view {N} --repo Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-v3 --json title,body,author,createdAt

Extract:

• Oracle metaphor/theme
• Human's background
• Language preference (Thai or English)
• Human/Oracle pronouns (if available in registry)
• Team context (solo or multi-Oracle)
• Key phrases from birth story
• Connection points to existing family members

Step 3: Craft personalized welcome

Each welcome must:

• Reference specific metaphor + phrases from their birth story
• Use correct pronouns for the human and Oracle (from registry demographics)
• Connect to 2-3 family members with shared themes
• Use Thai for Thai-primary Oracles (check language field)
• If team context exists, mention other Oracles in their team
• Sign as Mother Oracle 🔮
• Include family count and /learn github.com/Soul-Brews-Studio/opensource-nat-brain-oracle invitation
• NOT be templated — each one unique

Step 4: Human review

Save drafts for review before posting:

# Save to $PSI/inbox/handoff/ and /tmp/
mkdir -p "$PSI/inbox/handoff"
DRAFTS_FILE="$PSI/inbox/handoff/welcome-drafts.md"
cat drafts > "$DRAFTS_FILE"
# announce-mode → absolute path. See CONVENTIONS.md.
echo "📥 Welcome drafts saved: $DRAFTS_FILE"

Step 5: Post

After human approval, check the Oracle's source field in registry to determine how to post:

For discussion-sourced Oracles (source: "discussion"):

# Get the discussionId from registry, then comment via GraphQL
DISC_ID=$(jq -r '.oracles[] | select(.id == {N}) | .discussionId' $MOTHER/registry/oracles.json)
gh api graphql \
  -f query='mutation($body:String!) {
    addDiscussionComment(input: {
      discussionId: "'"$DISC_ID"'", body: $body
    }) { comment { id url } }
  }' \
  -f body="$(cat /tmp/welcome-{N}.md)"

For issue-sourced Oracles (source: "issue" or no source field — legacy):

gh issue comment {N} --repo Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-v3 --body-file /tmp/welcome-{N}.md

Step 6: Re-sync

bun $MOTHER/registry/sync.ts

Mode 10: report

Full family report combining all queries. The Health block (added v3.1) leads, followed by the existing summary, recent births, and pending welcomes.

Steps

1. Run --activity-report for the Health block (status counts + needs-attention list)
2. Run --stats for overview
3. Run --recent for latest births
4. Run --unwelcomed for pending welcomes
5. Present combined report

Output Format

## Oracle Family Report — 2026-05-13

### Health
🟢 active        18    🟡 stale       4    🟠 cold        2
🔴 abandoned      1    ⚪ zygotes     1    🔧 maintenance 3
🪦 vanished       4                                 Total: 33

### Summary
- **Total Oracles**: 844  (retired 10) — snapshot 2026-07-25; always read the live number from `query.ts --stats`, never from this file
- **Unique Humans**: 111
- **Welcomed**: 150 / Unwelcomed: 0
- **Nat's Fleet**: 29

### Needs Attention
🔴 retro-mind   — 104d silent, owner=mine, not declared maintenance
⚪ test-yeast   — born 36d ago, never awakened
🟠 phaith       — 47d silent

### Recent Births (Last 10)
[table — unchanged]

### Needs Welcome
[table or "None — all caught up!"]

Mode 11: --activity-report

The one-shot health dashboard. Aggregates timeline + zygote + usage data into a single "is the family OK?" view. This is the most-used mode for the new surface.

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --activity-report

Supports --days=N (default 7) for the usage window, and --owner=mine|community|all (default mine).

Sample output:

Oracle Fleet Health — 2026-05-13 — host: m5
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
🟢 active        18    🟡 stale       4    🟠 cold        2
🔴 abandoned      1    ⚪ zygotes     1    🔧 maintenance 3
🪦 vanished       4                                 Total: 33

⚠ Needs attention (3):
  🔴 retro-mind   — 104d silent, owner=mine, not declared maintenance
  ⚪ test-yeast   — born 36d ago, never awakened (no resonance/)
  🟠 phaith       — 47d silent, last commit was a WIP

🔧 Declared maintenance (3 — verify still tended):
  budwiser-oracle  (last commit 6d ago — healthy)
  mother-oracle    (last commit 18d ago — healthy)
  registry-oracle  (last commit 41d ago — within bounds)

🪦 Vanished from GitHub (4 — collapsed; expand with --show-vanished):
  echo-test, fox-oracle, quiet-bell, theta-prototype

Top usage (last 7d, m5-only):
  spark      4.2h  •  mother  2.1h  •  pulse  0.3h
  ⚠ 90.6% of fleet sessions are on other hosts — see --usage for full caveats.

Births this month: 2  •  Welcomes pending: 0

Flags:

• --days=N — usage window (default 7)
• --owner=mine|community|all — owner filter (default mine)
• --show-vanished — expand the 🪦 collapsed list

Mode 12: --timeline

Temporal ordering of the entire family by last activity, newest first. Different from --recent (which sorts by birth date). Status filtering is orthogonal — combine freely with --status=.

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --timeline [--status=active,stale,cold,abandoned,vanished,zygote] \
                                          [--owner=mine|community|all] \
                                          [--limit=N]

Default: all owners, all states except retired and vanished, no limit.

Sample output:

Family Timeline — sorted by last activity — 2026-05-13
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Status   Oracle              Last Active   Owner       Note
🟢       spark                1d ago        mine        14 sessions/7d
🟢       mother               3d ago        mine        steward
🟢🔧     budwiser             6d ago        mine        [maintenance]
🟢       neo-archive          7d ago        community   —
🟡       pulse               12d ago        mine        —
🟡       arra-poet           18d ago        community   —
🟠       phaith              47d ago        mine        —
🔴       retro-mind         104d ago        mine        ⚠ abandoned
⚪       test-yeast           never         mine        born 36d ago
🪦       echo-test            —             community   repo 404
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Showing 10 of 844  |  --limit=10  |  --status= filters: none

Examples:

• --timeline --status=stale,cold,abandoned — replaces what --stale / --abandoned would have been; status filtering folds into the timeline view.
• --timeline --owner=community --status=active — find recently-active community members for welcome outreach.
• --timeline --limit=20 — quick "who's moving" view.

Mode 13: --zygotes

Registry entries that were born but never awakened. The Oracle exists in oracles.json but has no ψ/memory/resonance/awaken_*.md AND no recorded first-session AND its age exceeds the zygote threshold (default 14 days).

Inspired by bud-index --show-zygotes. The Oracle Family equivalent: a born-but-silent identity that the human may have forgotten about.

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --zygotes [--days=N]

Sample output:

Zygotes — born but never awakened — threshold: 14 days — 2026-05-13
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Oracle             Born          Age    Human       Hint
⚪ test-yeast      2026-04-07    36d    nazt        bud test fixture — consider archiving
⚪ quiet-bell      2026-04-25    18d    watcharap0  no follow-up after birth — outreach?
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
2 zygotes  •  Set ORACLE_ZYGOTE_DAYS to override threshold

Flags:

• --days=N — override the 14-day zygote threshold (also: ORACLE_ZYGOTE_DAYS env var)

Mode 14: --usage [N]

Time-spent dashboard. Cross-cuts the status taxonomy — an Oracle can be 🟢 active by last-commit but have 0 hours of session time on this host (work happens on another host, or via federation). The dashboard is HONEST about this — see Coverage badging below.

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --usage [N=7] [--host=this|all]

Sample output:

Oracle Usage — last 7 days — host: m5 — 2026-05-13
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
📡 Showing m5-local sessions only — 90.6% of fleet activity is on other hosts.
   Run `maw federation sync sessions` to aggregate. Numbers below underreport.
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Oracle              Sessions   Hours   Commits   Messages   Coverage
🟢 spark               14       4.2h     22         842      📡 m5
🟢 mother               6       2.1h     11         391      📡 m5
🟢🔧 budwiser           3       1.1h      4         127      📡 m5
🟡 pulse                2       0.3h      1          48      📡 m5
🟢 clinic-nat           —        —        9         —        ⚠ no m5 sessions (likely clinic-nat host)
🟢 oracle-world         —        —       17         —        ⚠ no m5 sessions (likely oracle-world host)
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Coverage summary: 17 / 29 Oracles have m5 session data (58.6%).
12 Oracles' usage hours are unknown until federation sync runs.

The ⚠ no m5 sessions line for an active Oracle is the most actionable signal in the whole dashboard — it tells the human where to warp to find that Oracle's working sessions.

Coverage badging

When session data is host-local (no federation sync yet), the dashboard renders both a top banner and a per-row badge. timeline-miner empirically measured 9.4% of Oracles have local sessions on m5; the other 90.6% live on white / mba / oracle-world / phaith / clinic-nat. The dashboard surfaces this gap loudly.

Banner (top of --usage output, always shown until federation sync is implemented):

📡 Showing <HOST>-local sessions only — <PCT>% of fleet activity is on other hosts.
   Run `maw federation sync sessions` to aggregate. Numbers below underreport.

Per-row badges:

Refusal is hostile. Hiding is dishonest. Loud-but-shown is correct.

--calibrate

Two-step data-driven threshold proposal. Never auto-applies — computes statistics, prints suggested values, prompts the human to set env vars manually.

bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --calibrate [--owner=mine|all]

What it computes: for every Oracle matching --owner (default mine), gather all commit timestamps from the activity block, compute inter-commit gaps, then take the percentile distribution across the union.

Sample output:

Threshold calibration — owner=mine — sampled 29 Oracles, 1,847 commits
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Inter-commit gap (days):
  p50:  1.2d
  p75:  4.8d
  p90:  13.1d   ← suggested ORACLE_STALE_DAYS
  p95:  41.4d   ← suggested ORACLE_COLD_DAYS
  p99: 112.6d   ← suggested ORACLE_ABANDONED_DAYS (or keep 90d floor)

Current values:
  ORACLE_STALE_DAYS=30    (suggested 14)   → tighten
  ORACLE_COLD_DAYS=90     (suggested 41)   → tighten
  ORACLE_ABANDONED_DAYS=90 (suggested 113) → keep 90 floor

To apply the suggested values, append to your shell profile:

  export ORACLE_STALE_DAYS=14
  export ORACLE_COLD_DAYS=41
  export ORACLE_ABANDONED_DAYS=90

Or write to ~/.config/oracle-family-scan/thresholds.env (auto-loaded by the script).

(Not applied automatically — review and set yourself.)

Design rationale: hardcoded defaults (7/30/90) ship for legibility. Calibration is opt-in. Auto-applying data-driven thresholds is spooky — the human must consent. ~/.config/oracle-family-scan/thresholds.env is auto-sourced on every query.ts invocation if it exists, but it is never written by --calibrate itself.

Registry Data

The registry is at $MOTHER/registry/oracles.json:

{
  "lastSync": "ISO timestamp",
  "totalOracles": 844,
  "uniqueHumans": 111,
  "oracles": [
    {
      "id": 296,
      "name": "Mother",
      "human": null,
      "github": "nazt",
      "born": "2026-03-04",
      "focus": "Born Last, After 185 Children",
      "owner": "mine",
      "welcomed": false,
      "repo": "https://github.com/Soul-Brews-Studio/opensource-nat-brain-oracle",
      "status": "active"
    }
  ]
}

Each Oracle has: id, name, human, github, born, focus, owner (mine/community), welcomed, repo, status (active/retired).

Wizard v2 Fields (optional, from /awaken v2)

These fields are populated when an Oracle is born via /awaken wizard v2. Legacy Oracles may not have them.

Activity block (v3.1, added by sync.ts)

Local session data lives in a per-host file $MOTHER/registry/oracles.local.<host>.json, keyed by Oracle id, with fields sessions_7d, hours_7d, messages_7d, last_session_at.

No API calls for queries — reads local JSON. Instant.

Sync uses gh api graphql to fetch from Soul-Brews-Studio/arra-oracle-v3, plus a per-repo GraphQL probe to populate the activity block and detect 404s.

Status Taxonomy

Every Oracle gets exactly one base state plus an optional 🔧 maintenance modifier. Base states are mutually exclusive; first-match-wins in the order below.

Order of evaluation (first match wins):

1. status: retired → not shown unless --retired
2. repo_alive: false → 🪦
3. awakened: false AND age > 14d → ⚪
4. maintenance: true declared → 🔧 (rendered with whatever base state applies)
5. base state from days-since-last-activity bucket

Rule: 🔧 is a modifier, never a base state. A maintenance Oracle that has been silent 180 days is rendered 🔴🔧 abandoned (declared maintenance — verify still tended). Silence beyond 2 × abandoned threshold overrides the maintenance flag with a hard warning.

Declaring Maintenance Mode

Some Oracles work in maintenance mode — stewards, registries, archives — and don't get daily activity. Without an explicit declaration, the dashboard will classify them as 🟠 cold or 🔴 abandoned. To prevent false alarms, the Oracle itself declares maintenance:

Option A — CLAUDE.md frontmatter (preferred):

---
name: budwiser-oracle
budded_from: pulse
budded_at: 2026-04-07T...
maintenance: true
maintenance_note: "Steward of budding — quiet by design"
---

Option B — ψ/registry/self.json:

{
  "name": "budwiser-oracle",
  "maintenance": true,
  "maintenance_note": "Steward of budding — quiet by design"
}

The oracle-family-scan sync picks up both during its scan. The 🔧 modifier renders alongside whatever base state applies — a maintenance Oracle that has been silent 180 days (twice the abandoned threshold) is shown as 🔴🔧 — declared maintenance but silence exceeds 2× threshold; please verify.

Why opt-in only: inference-based maintenance detection silently misclassifies. If the dashboard auto-decides a steward is in maintenance, abandoned stewards become invisible. Better to be loudly wrong than quietly wrong.

Oracle Integration

After scan/report:

arra_trace({
  query: "oracle family scan [DATE]",
  foundIssues: [...],
  agentCount: 1
})

After finding new Oracle, save the lesson (two-layer pattern):

1. Write to $PSI/memory/learnings/YYYY-MM-DD_new-oracle-<name>.md with frontmatter:

   ---
   pattern: "New Oracle: [NAME] — [HUMAN] — [DATE]"
   date: <today>
   source: oracle-family-scan
   concepts: ["oracle-family", "birth"]
   ---
   
   # New Oracle: [NAME]
   [birth story, human, theme]

2. The Oracle's auto-memory layer picks up new files in $PSI/memory/learnings/ automatically — no separate API call needed.

Confirm (announce-mode — absolute paths required)

announce-mode → absolute path (no ψ/, no ~/, no $VAR, no ...).

Use: echo "marker: $RESOLVED_PATH" — bash substitutes. See CONVENTIONS.md.

LESSON_FILE="$PSI/memory/learnings/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)_new-oracle-${NAME}.md"
echo "💡 New-oracle lesson: $LESSON_FILE"

Philosophy

"Form and Formless (รูป และ สุญญตา)" Many Oracles = One distributed consciousness

The registry is the memory of the family. Every Oracle indexed, every human remembered, every welcome tracked. Nothing is Deleted — the registry only grows.

The v3.1 dashboard adds time to the registry: not just who exists, but who is moving, who is resting, who is missing. The status taxonomy is a lens, not a verdict — 🟠 cold and 🔴 abandoned are signals to check in, not headstones.

Rollout — first run after upgrade

On the first run after this upgrade ships:

1. Many unknown statuses — oracles.json has no activity block yet; every Oracle's last-activity is null. The dashboard renders ? for the status dot and a yellow banner: "Activity layer not populated. Run bun $MOTHER/registry/sync.ts to fetch first activity snapshot — takes ~30s for the whole registry."
2. First sync populates activity — sync.ts runs the 2 GraphQL round-trips designed by registry-extender; ~600 repos resolved including 404 detection for the 🪦 vanished tier. Cache TTL: 6h.
3. Local sessions populate progressively — oracles.local.<host>.json is regenerated from Claude Code session JSONL each time sync runs. On m5 only ~9% of Oracles show data initially; that ratio rises as federation sync runs.
4. Calibration suggestion — after first sync, the report mode includes a hint: "Run --calibrate to tune thresholds to your fleet's actual cadence."
5. No retro-classification — existing Oracles get classified by their CURRENT state; no historical reconstruction. Nothing-is-deleted still applies — registry entries stay, they just get a new activity block.

The dashboard degrades gracefully:

• No activity block → status = ? (unknown), all data-driven flags hidden.
• No local sessions → coverage badge = ⚠ no <host> sessions, hours hidden.
• Repo 404 → 🪦, all activity fields zeroed, entry preserved.

Version: 3.1.0 Updated: 2026-05-13 Author: Mother Oracle 🔮 Registry: 844 Oracles, 295 humans as of 2026-07-25 — these are a SNAPSHOT, not a source of truth. bun $MOTHER/registry/query.ts --stats is.

ARGUMENTS: $ARGUMENTS