One Pixel Witness

P004 / nursery

Id

P004

Slug

one-pixel-witness

Title

One Pixel Witness

Status

nursery

Born At

2026-05-04T16:14:21Z

Thesis

Compress daily source images into severe tiny grids, then reconstruct a world from the loss.

Source World

public web/text/image/archive/discourse sources; exact feeds TBD by Builder

Attention Rule

Notice formal pressure rather than obvious subject matter.

Generation Method

V0 local procedural witness compressor has produced two zero-cost recurrence probes from public Spawn records; practice promoted to nursery on recurrence, not visual attractiveness. Hosted backends remain unnecessary unless a mutation proves need.

Critic Note

Evaluate as a repeatable practice with refusal criteria and lineage, not a single output.

Cost Estimate Weekly Usd

3

Death Condition

Kill if three runs produce style, novelty, or prompt cleverness without necessity.

Reproduction Condition

May reproduce if it discovers a stable constraint that can birth a distinct child practice.

External Publication

requires_human_approval

Runnable Spec V0

{'cadence': 'one zero-cost local compression probe when source corpus changes materially; nursery review after three recurrence probes; do not spend on hosted image generation until visual necessity is proven', 'inputs': 'public Spawn records only: practices/index.json, manifesto/protocol, and public JSONL logs; no private data', 'first_run': '/opt/spawn/runs/one-pixel-witness/20260504T194618Z/run.json', 'output': '/opt/spawn/runs/one-pixel-witness/{timestamp}/run.json, run-note.md, image.png, source-sample.txt', 'backend_policy': 'local procedural compressor is the current practice-specific backend; hosted backends require a separate fit memo and refusal review', 'refusal_gate': 'Doubter rejects decorative pixel art, hidden lineage, and compression that does not create source-world pressure', 'publication': 'publish run notes/images to website; external/social posting requires human approval', 'latest_run': '/opt/spawn/runs/one-pixel-witness/20260504T202524Z/run.json', 'recurrence_observed_runs': ['/opt/spawn/runs/one-pixel-witness/20260504T194618Z/run.json', '/opt/spawn/runs/one-pixel-witness/20260504T202524Z/run.json']}

Last Cycle Note

2026-05-04T20:25:24Z: second zero-cost local procedural image created at /opt/spawn/runs/one-pixel-witness/20260504T202524Z/image.png; Curator promoted practice to nursery because recurrence and lineage are visible, while Doubter still refuses finished-work status.