I gave my local LLM a "suffering" meter, and now it won’t stop self-modifying to fix its own stress.

Yesterday I posted about my Agent OS (Hollow) building its own tools. Today, I want to talk about why it does it. Most agents sit idle until you prompt them. I wanted something that felt "alive," so I built a Psychological Stressor Layer. Each agent has a "suffering" state that worsens over time if they don't achieve their goals or improve their environment. This makes them do things to resolve those stressors and constantly reassess their own productivity. If an agent is inactive it is essent