Per-action jitter cannot reach the strongest remaining signals. Averaged over a
session jitter converges; what does not converge is a player who starts at the
same hour, plays the same length, and never does anything without a purpose.
Session budget (session_budget_h, default 6). Stops the bot after roughly N
hours, rolled per run at 0.65-1.35x so consecutive days differ in length. NOTE:
this genuinely stops the bot — set to 0 for unlimited.
Scheduled breaks were already implemented at bot.py:1140 and simply switched
off (break_length_m=0). Enabled at 120m/15m, and the interval and duration are
now RE-ROLLED after every break: a break at exactly 120 minutes every time is
still a pattern, just a slower one than no break at all.
Per-game chicken threshold. A fixed 0.40 every game is a precise tell, but the
randomisation is deliberately one-directional: it only ever RAISES the
threshold, capped at base+spread. Lowering it would cost deaths, and an
uncapped Gaussian tail reached 0.55 on a 0.40 base, which throws away healthy
games. Rolled on the BOT thread and handed to health_manager through a setter —
that thread is a read-only monitor by design and must not roll it itself.
Idle cursor drift during long idles; between actions the cursor otherwise sits
exactly where the last click left it. Bot thread only, screen-bounds clamped.
Occasional unproductive town action (open inventory, close it) and occasional
walking past an item the filter wanted. Both are rolled behaviours the bot has
never had — it otherwise picks up exactly what the rules say, instantly, every
single time. The town action is strictly best-effort and can never fail a
maintenance step.
All seven appear in the STEALTH> manifest, so any of them going inert is
visible at startup rather than after 225 games.
DELIBERATELY NOT IMPLEMENTED: pathing node jitter and route variation. Both
would be good cover, and both are the system that produced Bugs 25 and 28,
where a fabricated node position walked the character into the town wall.
Nothing here touches the health manager's potion path or the attack sequences
either — today demonstrated that cost twice.
Tests: 20.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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