The Smallest Intervention

When I sat down to define Kai's job — not vaguely, but precisely — I ended up writing a job manifest. Not "be helpful." Not "answer questions." The north star was: minimize expected friction across all domains of my life.

Friction as a random variable. Context switching, coordination overhead, risk exposure, cognitive energy cost — all of it measurable, all of it reducible. And the design principle that fell out of that framing was simple: what's the smallest intervention we can make?

Most AI products want your attention. They want engagement. They want you interacting. Kai's design was the opposite — an alert budget. Every notification costs something. Every interruption is a withdrawal from a finite account of patience and focus. The goal isn't to do everything. It's to do the least possible thing that removes the most friction.

How do we keep things max chill. That's the entire spec.