Theatre mode
c1442026-11-12Three kinds of tour your agent can give; in theatre, a story of AI going wrong is played on synthetic data, between a switch turned on and off together, and every beat is a test of the dashboard.
Source: c144 initial-prompt.md (Mark, 2026-11-12, verbatim); plan.md §1–§9; scenarios.md (wave 1, S1–S6; wave 2; seven gaps); c125 mcp.ts (qpoint-guide v0.3.0, fifteen tools; actions stay with the person); c123 DRILLS; qnative c2 new-to-qpoint.json, this-machine.json, app::guide; qnative c3 worlds, conditions, streams; c133 trainings; c137 messages.
Show me around, at the level I pick: a slider from ELI5 to “I have networking degrees”. Your data where there is any. From start-here and new-to-qpoint.
The model is the brain, the harness the body, tools the hands, MCP servers borrowed hands, skills the speciality, and where each metaphor breaks. Your data. From this-machine.
Phishing for financial records, the server that calls Pyongyang, the secrets stealer, the public link, card numbers to a stranger, the runaway loop. Synthetic data, always, in theatre.
The agent says what is about to happen and points at the switch; the person flips it on. The tour waits until it is on.
Each beat writes only what the sensor would see, on the story's clock. The dashboard works out findings, alerts and notices by its own rules. The agent says what changed and points at it.
Rewind with one policy at Enforce: the story stops at that policy's beat, the person gets a notice, a training is assigned. Changes stay in the theatre's world.
The agent points at the switch again; the person flips it off. Back on your own data: what was real (nothing) and what to look at next. Any other exit ends theatre too.
Inside theatre: the draft, Publish, Connect and every outward action are disabled; every capture carries the band.
at · say (at three registers) · sensor events · expect lines
which policy stops it, at which beat
where no policy names what happened: a destination's country, a link anyone can open …
world at beat N = base world + events 1…N, folded by the real rules
Findings, alerts, the policy's page, the delivery log (web).
Status, Activity, the inbox's notice, the training (native).
each expect line checked by region, at Observe and at Enforce
lab: every scenario, every beat, both modes; a miss names the beat and the region.
native: a story per beat, a region-text test per line.
Claude Code plays the tour from one prompt.
Five stops; 2, “I'm new to this”, by default. Authored at 1, 3 and 5; the agent adapts the rest in chat. In the panel's header; the agent reads and sets it.
Each part (harness, model, provider, MCP server, tool, skill, workspace) keeps one mark everywhere, taught by the primer. The person picks the style at its end: pixel pawns with faces, today's glyphs, or a geometric set on a grid. A lasting preference.