Experiment Protocol — Flux Agent (Chapter 19)

Purpose. Show the signature of Motion in a digital flow: goal → contact (tool) → transformation → bounded steps → threshold (Θ).

This page is a one-pager to let readers reproduce the experiment behind Chapter 19.

Conditions

1. REAL — mode: "real" (use the site UI and press Run).
2. MOCK+ (tools enabled) — mode: "mock", maxSteps = 8, tools = ["web","db","math"].
3. MOCK− (step-constrained) — mode: "mock", maxSteps = 4.

Procedure

Use the same goal in all conditions (e.g., “Summarize the text in parentheses in 3 bullet points.”) and run 3 trials per condition.

• REAL (UI): Type the goal → press Run → watch Logs / Live Metrics and note the runId.
• MOCK (cURL): Send a submit with mode:"mock". Steps progress automatically.

  curl -s -X POST https://flux-agent.nowonacra.com/api/submit \
                          -H 'content-type: application/json' \
                          -d '{ "sessionId":"s-mock-1",
                                  "userMessage":"Summarize the text in parentheses in 3 bullet points.",
                                  "userId":"u1",
                                  "maxSteps":8,
                                  "tools":["web","db","math"],
                                  "mode":"mock" }'
                      

What to Record

After each run, from runs/{runId} and runs/{runId}/logs record:

• S (steps), ρₜ (tool density), κ (coherence), τ (avg latency, ms), Θ (phase).
• status and the final one-line outcome. For REAL, you may also log usage.total_tokens if recorded.

Condition	runId	S	ρₜ	κ	τ (ms)	Θ	usage (tok)	final (1 line)
REAL							—
MOCK+							—
MOCK−							—

Expected Signatures

• With tool contact, ρₜ tends to rise and τ is more stable for a similar S.
• Under a strict step limit, Θ rises faster and a graceful stop is observed.
• As Θ approaches ~0.80, prefer early summarization (fail-soft).

Reproduce via API

REAL: POST /api/submit (mode: real) then call POST /api/step a few times.

# 1) submit (REAL)
                RID=$(curl -s -X POST https://flux-agent.nowonacra.com/api/submit \
                -H 'content-type: application/json' \
                -d '{"sessionId":"s-real-1","userMessage":"Summarize the text in parentheses in 3 bullet points.","userId":"u1","maxSteps":8,"mode":"real"}' \
                | sed -E 's/.*"runId":"([^"]+)".*/\1/')

                # 2) step (bounded loop)
                for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
                curl -s -X POST https://flux-agent.nowonacra.com/api/step \
                    -H 'content-type: application/json' \
                    -d '{"runId":"'"$RID"'"}' | jq -r '.final // empty'
                sleep 0.4
                done
            

For MOCK, send mode:"mock" and adjust maxSteps.