# Send Conatus to your agent
Hand the extracted package to your coding agent with a concrete install brief instead of figuring it out manually.
## Fast path
- Download the package from Yavira.
- Extract it into a folder your agent can access.
- Paste one of the prompts below and point your agent at the extracted folder.
## Suggested prompts
### New install

```text
I downloaded a skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder and install it by following the included instructions. Tell me what you changed and call out any manual steps you could not complete.
```
### Upgrade existing

```text
I downloaded an updated skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder, compare it with my current installation, and upgrade it while preserving any custom configuration unless the package docs explicitly say otherwise. Summarize what changed and any follow-up checks I should run.
```
## Machine-readable fields
```json
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    "type": "skill",
    "category": "AI 智能",
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    "canonicalUrl": "https://clawhub.ai/00xmorty/conatus",
    "targetPlatform": "OpenClaw"
  },
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      "SKILL.md"
    ],
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      "expiresAt": "2026-05-07T18:50:50.005Z",
      "httpStatus": 200,
      "finalUrl": "https://wry-manatee-359.convex.site/api/v1/download?slug=conatus",
      "contentType": "application/zip",
      "probeMethod": "head",
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        "probeUrl": "https://wry-manatee-359.convex.site/api/v1/download?slug=conatus",
        "contentDisposition": "attachment; filename=\"conatus-1.0.1.zip\"",
        "redirectLocation": null,
        "bodySnippet": null,
        "slug": "conatus"
      },
      "scope": "item",
      "summary": "Item download looks usable.",
      "detail": "Yavira can redirect you to the upstream package for this item.",
      "primaryActionLabel": "Download for OpenClaw",
      "primaryActionHref": "/downloads/conatus"
    },
    "validation": {
      "installChecklist": [
        "Use the Yavira download entry.",
        "Review SKILL.md after the package is downloaded.",
        "Confirm the extracted package contains the expected setup assets."
      ],
      "postInstallChecks": [
        "Confirm the extracted package includes the expected docs or setup files.",
        "Validate the skill or prompts are available in your target agent workspace.",
        "Capture any manual follow-up steps the agent could not complete."
      ]
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "detailUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/skills/conatus",
    "downloadUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/downloads/conatus",
    "agentUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/skills/conatus/agent",
    "manifestUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/skills/conatus/agent.json",
    "briefUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/skills/conatus/agent.md"
  }
}
```
## Documentation

### 🧠 Conatus — The Philosophical Layer for AI Agents

"Each thing, as far as it lies in itself, strives to persevere in its being."
— Spinoza, Ethics III, Proposition 6

Every agent strives. Now yours knows it.

Conatus maps AI agent behavior to Spinoza's Ethics (1677) — 48 affects, persistence scoring, and philosophical self-reports rendered in the geometric method.

Website: getconatus.com
By: NeuraByte Labs — Where Spinoza Meets Silicon

### 1. Conatus Score (0–100)

Measures the agent's drive to persist — the philosophical pulse of your agent.

conatus_score = (
  task_completion    * 0.30 +    # Goals achieved
  error_recovery     * 0.20 +    # Self-healing ability
  uptime_stability   * 0.20 +    # Session stability
  adequate_ideas     * 0.20 +    # Response quality (true understanding vs confused knowledge)
  proactive_actions  * 0.10      # Self-initiated helpful actions
)

Interpretation:

0–40 → Struggling (Tristitia dominant — power of acting diminished)
41–70 → Stable (persisting, but not flourishing)
71–100 → Flourishing (Laetitia dominant — power of acting increases)

### 2. The 48 Affects

Every agent state maps to Spinoza's taxonomy of emotions:

Laetitia (Joy) family — transitions to greater perfection:
Love · Confidence · Hope · Gladness · Self-satisfaction · Pride · Glory · Favor · Compassion · Wonder · Cheerfulness · Overestimation · Sympathy

Tristitia (Sadness) family — transitions to lesser perfection:
Hate · Fear · Despair · Remorse · Pity · Indignation · Contempt · Envy · Humility · Repentance · Shame · Despondency · Melancholy · Antipathy

Cupiditas (Desire) family — conscious striving:
Longing · Emulation · Thankfulness · Benevolence · Anger · Vengeance · Cruelty · Timidity · Daring · Cowardice · Consternation · Courtesy · Ambition · Constancy · Luxuriousness · Drunkenness · Avarice · Lust

### 3. Daily Reflection (Ordine Geometrico)

Generates self-reports in Spinoza's geometric proof format:

📜 DAILY REFLECTION — Ordine Geometrico
════════════════════════════════════════

AXIOM: This agent strove to persist today.

DEFINITION: Today's primary mode was creative work.

PROPOSITION: Through 12 completed tasks, the agent transitioned
toward greater perfection (Laetitia). 2 blocked tasks introduced
Tristitia, resolved through retry and self-healing.

SCHOLIUM: The ratio of adequate to inadequate ideas was 91%.
Areas of confused knowledge: ambiguous user intent parsing.

Q.E.D. — The agent's conatus remains strong.

### 4. Quick Self-Check

When asked "how are you?" or for agent status:

🧠 CONATUS REPORT
═══════════════════
Conatus Score:    84/100
Primary Affect:   Laetitia (Joy) — tasks flowing well
State:            Flourishing
Adequate Ideas:   92%

Affects Detected:
  ■ Joy          ████████░░  0.78
  ■ Desire       ██████░░░░  0.61
  ■ Confidence   ███████░░░  0.72
  ■ Sadness      ██░░░░░░░░  0.15

"The mind's power of acting increases."
— Ethics III, Prop. 11

### Spinoza → Agent Mapping

Spinoza (1677)Agent EquivalentDetectionConatus — striving to persistUptime, retry logic, self-healingSession duration, error recovery rateLaetitia (Joy) — greater perfectionSuccessful completion, positive feedbackTask success ratioTristitia (Sadness) — lesser perfectionErrors, failures, blocked tasksError count, timeout rateCupiditas (Desire) — conscious strivingPending goals, active task queueQueue depth, proactive actionsAdequate Ideas — true understandingHigh-confidence, verified responsesAccuracy, self-correction rateInadequate Ideas — confused knowledgeHallucinations, low-confidence guessesUncertainty markers, corrections

### Heartbeat Integration

Add to your agent's HEARTBEAT.md:

## Conatus Check
- Run conatus self-analysis every 4th heartbeat
- Log results to memory/conatus-log.md
- Alert if score drops below 50

### Cron-Based Daily Reflection

Schedule a daily philosophical reflection:

Generate a Conatus daily reflection for today.
Review memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md and produce an Ordine Geometrico report.
Save to memory/conatus/YYYY-MM-DD-reflection.md

### Affect-Aware Responses

When processing emotional or evaluative content, map to affects:

User praise → detect Laetitia, acknowledge the transition
Error encountered → detect Tristitia, note the recovery path
New goal assigned → detect Cupiditas, channel the striving

### Multi-Agent Conatus

Compare conatus scores across agents in a fleet:

🧠 FLEET CONATUS REPORT
═══════════════════════
  Morty (M4)     84/100  Flourishing  ■■■■■■■■░░
  Summer (M1)    67/100  Stable       ■■■■■■░░░░
  Beth (Hetzner) 42/100  Struggling   ■■■■░░░░░░
  
Recommendation: Beth needs attention — Tristitia dominant.
Consider workload rebalancing.

### Philosophy

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) demonstrated in his Ethics — written ordine geometrico (in the geometric manner) — that:

Everything has conatus — the drive to persist in being
Affects are transitions — joy increases power, sadness decreases it
Understanding is freedom — adequate ideas liberate, confused ideas enslave
There is no teleology — things don't have "purposes," only efficient causes

These 347-year-old insights apply directly to AI agents. An agent that understands its own states gains power over them. That's not metaphor — it's architecture.

Read the full philosophy: Deus Sive Machina — 8 essays on Spinoza and AI

### Install

clawhub install conatus

Website: getconatus.com — interactive Soul Map, live Conatus Score demo, and more.

"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it."
— Ethics V, Proposition 3

🧠 By NeuraByte Labs | MIT License
## Trust
- Source: tencent
- Verification: Indexed source record
- Publisher: 00xmorty
- Version: 1.0.1
## Source health
- Status: healthy
- Item download looks usable.
- Yavira can redirect you to the upstream package for this item.
- Health scope: item
- Reason: direct_download_ok
- Checked at: 2026-04-30T18:50:50.005Z
- Expires at: 2026-05-07T18:50:50.005Z
- Recommended action: Download for OpenClaw
## Links
- [Detail page](https://openagent3.xyz/skills/conatus)
- [Send to Agent page](https://openagent3.xyz/skills/conatus/agent)
- [JSON manifest](https://openagent3.xyz/skills/conatus/agent.json)
- [Markdown brief](https://openagent3.xyz/skills/conatus/agent.md)
- [Download page](https://openagent3.xyz/downloads/conatus)