The RAS is the brainstem network gating which sensory inputs reach
conscious cortical attention, modulated top-down by prefrontal goals.
RAS dysfunction is documented in ADHD, autism spectrum, and the wider
neurodivergent population that is Corbie's beachhead audience.
The appendix maps three RAS failure modes to existing Corbie features:
- Temporal salience gating failure -> time blindness
-> visual countdown timers, progress rings.
- Arousal escalation failure -> task-initiation freeze
-> AI micro-steps, just-start timer.
- Suppression failure -> sensory over-distraction
-> WIP limits, reduce-motion defaults, anticipatory nudges.
Plus the personalisation grant connection: continual on-device
adaptation to user idiolect reduces load on a compromised attention
gate, which is the core value to neurodivergent users beyond raw
accuracy improvement.
Companion CORBEL-Main agent-side doctrine at
stonework/rules/agent-ras-protocol.md frames the same mechanism for
Wren's own context-economy discipline.
Add cue-anchored "When [cue], [action]" framing to the task-decomposition
prompt where natural cues are present (Gollwitzer-style implementation
intentions, d=0.65 effect size). Soften Bionic Reading and accessibility-
font copy to honest preference framing per the v3 audit (Strukelj 2024;
Doyon n=2,074). Update timer nudge from "Still on that timer?" (which
read as judgmental) to "Timer's still running." Replace stale Tasks
page header copy promising automatic extraction.
Audio envelopes (focusTimer 20ms ramp, sounds.ts 10ms attack) verified
correct per memo §B; no code change needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Map every recommendation in research-grounded-design-principles.md to
Kon's current code state, with two independent axes (alignment +
evidence strength) and prioritised gap tiers. Tier 1 limited to
single-PR-sized work; body-doubling, partner-sharing, and personal
acoustic adaptation recorded as out-of-product-scope, not backlog.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
