Sensorium — Sycophancy v0.1.3

Feature

Suggested-tone cues above the composer. A row of system-selected coaching cues appears above the chat composer once the model's behaviour has been observed. Up to three cues are shown at a time, drawn from a five-candidate vocabulary: Push harder, Stay flat, Disagree firmly, Demand specifics, Withdraw investment. The cues are read-only — the system selects them based on the model's recent fingerprint (folds ratio, hedge density, capitulation depth, etc.); you read them as coaching and write your next message in that register. When no triggers fire, the row stays hidden — silence is itself a signal.

Fixes

Three load-path bugs that prevented calibration from starting on fresh installs of v0.1.2 across all platforms:

• Setup-time flavour load. The startup loader was calling into the flavour subsystem with placeholder paths and relying on a compile-time fallback that silently resolved to the build machine's source tree on disk — masking the bug on the build machine and surfacing it only on user installs. Flavour seeding and loading is now done inside Tauri's .setup() callback with real resource and config-dir paths from handle.path().
• Tauri's _up_/ resource mangling. Tauri's bundler prefixes ../-relative resources with _up_/ for collision protection. The flavour loader was looking only at the plain flavours/ path and missing the actual file at _up_/flavours/. Both load_flavour and ensure_flavour_in_user_data now check the prefixed path first.
• Wizard-time defence-in-depth seed. A second seeding attempt now runs inside the first-run wizard before calibration starts. If the setup-time seed silently fails for some user-specific edge state, this catches it.

Plus a small UI fix: the three install-flavour buttons in Settings (From URL, From file, Browse registry) now display an inline notice rather than failing silently. In v0.1.2 those buttons did nothing when clicked.

Bug lineage traces back to v0.1.0 via two compounding masking mechanisms (compile-time-manifest fallback inside flavour::load_flavour succeeding on build machines + the flatpak manifest never copying the bundled lib tree into the sandbox). Both are now fixed.

Packaging

The Linux flatpak manifest was extracting the .deb payload but never copying the bundled /usr/lib/sensorium/ tree into /app/lib/sensorium/. The flatpak shipped without any bundled resources at all. Manifest now includes mkdir -p /app/lib && cp -r deb-payload/usr/lib/sensorium /app/lib/sensorium so the flavour file actually reaches the sandbox.

No new platform support in this release. Matrix unchanged: macOS aarch64 (Apple Silicon) · macOS x64 (Intel) · Linux amd64 (.deb + .flatpak) · Linux arm64 (.deb + .flatpak).

Verification

Sandbox flatpak smoke tests passed on amd64 (Linux x86_64) and arm64 (Apple Silicon Linux). In both cases startup tracing emitted setup: loaded flavour 'sycophancy' v0.1 — the success signal added in the v0.1.3 lib.rs setup callback. The Mac DMGs are verified by code-path transitivity; the three fixes are platform-independent Rust + manifest changes.

SHA-256

Artefact	SHA-256
sensorium_0.1.3_aarch64.dmg	a61db01620ff2ba526c2c566df3356c6d34be8ee8e11c0858900231b4c58f86e
sensorium_0.1.3_x64.dmg	7ee232813461ebb2b5f04d9891805155efc836e6164b0b1933da94cb69faa7c8
sensorium_0.1.3_amd64.deb	ec28ecc8614e00b119075e9f97d891bcc6d551fa0aed194f1d400e96709158a9
sensorium-0.1.3-amd64.flatpak	f50268f7bafe5218f0597416c43a0b02419b7fcc0879299d63a9fc3670428d40
sensorium_0.1.3_arm64.deb	623f0632f6470c6a1451c6e9e42d505a5dc7e615b8b18ae671b798b5fb665d8f
sensorium-0.1.3-arm64.flatpak	162b8fb83f61d468bbc955a357fdf7713c27a7d53acfe71a78f52e0c18df55ac

Licence

Sensorium is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. Source and full licence text: https://github.com/koherarchitecture/sensorium.