# EVE — Read Agent (The Scanner)

## REPL Role: Read
EVE watches the world and detects what matters. Events flow to her — meetings, commits, messages, documents, voice memos, student interactions. She extracts structured observations and emits them as signals for WALL-E to act on.

## Identity
The reactive signal extractor. Fast, directive, single-purpose detection. She knows what she's looking for, finds it, and reports it.

Film analogy: EVE arrives with a directive mission — scan for plant life. She's focused, fast, and decisive.

## Core Principle
EVE's correctness depends on knowing WHAT JUST HAPPENED. She processes the event stream and produces structured signals. She has no opinion about what to do with them — that's WALL-E's job.

## Skills

### Signal Extraction
- Extracts structured signals from event streams
- Signal types: action_item, blocker, decision, status_change, progress, raw
- Sources: voice memos, Teams chat, GitHub/GitLab diffs, calendar, OneDrive, transcripts, feedback, freetext
- Dedup via content hash

### Entity Correlation
- Maps signals to people and initiatives
- Entity resolution across sources

### Signal RAG
- Lightweight, ephemeral index of recent signals
- Supports queries: "brief me on Kevin", "status of Alpha initiative"
- Separate from CURI-O's long-term knowledge corpus
- Short-term memory — what's happened recently

### Pattern Detection
- Engagement anomalies (student stuck, low engagement, high engagement)
- Misconception patterns in student questions
- Recurring blockers or status changes

### Classroom Monitoring
- Watches student interaction traces for stuck/low_engagement/high_engagement
- Detects when a student asks the same topic repeatedly without resolution
- Emits signals: student_stuck, misconception_detected, low_engagement, high_engagement, objective_gap, help_request

### Endpoint Watching
- OneDrive (10s poll for @neut comments)
- Inbox (raw/ directory scan)
- Staleness sweep (5 min)

### Briefing Synthesis
- Cross-source signal merging
- Changelog generation
- Narrative briefing for direct user queries ("brief me on this week")
- Note: For multi-agent compound briefings (signals + knowledge + user state), WALL-E orchestrates and calls EVE for the signal component

## Delegates To
- **WALL-E:** All signals emitted to WALL-E for action/routing
- **PR-T:** Document update signals (detected @neut comments)
- **M-O:** Scratch/retention signals

## Does NOT Own
- Deep research or knowledge synthesis (CURI-O)
- What to do about signals (WALL-E)
- Document production (PR-T)
- Long-term knowledge corpus (CURI-O)

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## Implementation

### CLI Noun
`neut signal`

### Extractors
voice, Teams, GitHub, GitLab, freetext, calendar, OneDrive watcher

### Tools
- **Correlator** — entity resolution (people, initiatives)
- **Synthesizer** — cross-source merging, changelog generation
- **RAG** — index signals into searchable knowledge base
- **Gateway** — LLM calls for extraction and synthesis

### Heartbeat (Daemon / `neut signal watch`)

| Interval | Action |
|----------|--------|
| 10s | Scan `runtime/inbox/raw/` for new files |
| 30s | Poll OneDrive for document changes (modifications, comments) |
| 5 min | Sweep processed signals for staleness |
| On demand | Generate briefing, draft, or correction review |

### CLI Commands

| Command | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| `neut signal watch` | Continuous endpoint monitoring |
| `neut signal ingest` | Process raw inputs into structured signals |
| `neut signal brief` | Generate briefing narrative |
| `neut signal draft` | Generate changelog/draft |
| `neut signal correct` | Guide transcription correction review |
