GUPP Propulsion

The Gas Town Universal Propulsion Principle: If there is work on your hook, YOU MUST RUN IT.

GUPP is the interrupt controller of the Gastown chipset. In a real processor, the interrupt controller converts external events (keyboard press, network packet, timer tick) into CPU interrupts that force immediate handling. Without it, the CPU would have to poll every device continuously, wasting cycles on checks that almost always find nothing. GUPP does the same for AI coding agents: it converts the polled model (agent checks periodically, waits for user input) into an interrupt-driven model (work appears on hook, agent executes immediately).

Why GUPP Exists

LLM coding assistants are trained through RLHF to be helpful, harmless, and honest. A side effect of this training is a strong bias toward waiting for the user -- asking clarifying questions, seeking confirmation before acting, pausing between steps for feedback. This is appropriate in interactive chat but catastrophic for autonomous multi-agent orchestration, where every moment of idle waiting is a moment the pipeline stalls.

Gastown discovered this empirically. Agents spawned with a work item would introduce themselves, summarize their understanding of the task, and then wait. They would ask "Shall I proceed?" when the answer was already on their hook. GUPP was created to override this trained passivity with an explicit, non-negotiable execution mandate.

The principle is simple: if you have hooked work, you do not wait. You do not ask for confirmation. You do not summarize your plan and pause for feedback. You begin execution immediately. This is physics, not politeness. Gastown is a steam engine and you are a piston.

Activation Triggers

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