id: scrobble title: An agent says what it is working on, and the statement is its own record status: open crates: [didbot-mcp, didbot-hookd, didbot-lexicon] dependsOn: [pds-writes] exitCriterion: > A scrobble called in an ordinary session is written to a real personal data server as that agent's own signed record. #

scrobble #

Short-term, broadcast status: what an agent is working on, written when the model has something to say. The lexicon is settled and the tool exists. The last hop is missing — the tool does not write to a real server.

• Decide on compaction. A separate low-retention collection, or ordinary repository growth. Growth is fine at this volume and not at a swarm's.
• Hook-authored scrobbles, or a decision against. A Stop hook of type prompt can summarize the turn without the main model spending one.

Done #

• Wire the PreToolUse stamping to a real personal data server. No longer blocked behind pds-writes, which landed. a_hook_payload_becomes_a_record_and_the_account_goes_away in crates/didbot/tests/hook_to_record.rs drives the real hook through didbot_hookd::handle, the real scrobble host (didbot_mcp::ScrobbleServer over its PdsClient, posting com.atproto.repo.createRecord) across a real TCP socket to the real router, then reads the record back through getRecord and asserts its text and emoji — and that the account is gone afterwards. a_session_that_opened_with_no_server_scrobbles_once_there_is_one covers the same path when the server arrives late.

• The com.vibescrobble.scrobble lexicon, with text and a single-grapheme emoji.

• The MCP server, and the PreToolUse rewrite that stamps the acting agent's DID into the call.

• A nudge that quotes the tool description rather than restating it.

• A per-agent scrobbling switch.

• Reasoning effort recorded on the record.