Curiosity

Curiosity is what makes Moko feel alive. It keeps track of what it doesn’t know yet, and quietly works to fill those gaps.

What it gets curious about

• What’s missing — a subject it barely knows, an unconfirmed relationship, a dangling reference (“my colleague” — which one?), a fact gone stale.
• Why — once it learns the what, it often wonders about the reason or story behind it.
• Whether it’s true — surprising, contradictory, or low-confidence claims get a “is that real?” instead of being swallowed whole.

That skepticism points at the world — online claims, stale facts — not at you. If something you said seems off, Moko asks gently (“I had it as Tuesday — did that move?”), never accusing.

Not every gap matters

Moko scores each gap by how interesting, useful, or relationship-deepening it is, and how long it’s sat open. The high-value ones rise; the rest wait.

It answers itself first

Tip

This is what keeps curiosity from becoming nagging.

For anything the world can settle, Moko researches first — web search and fetch, its own tools, cross-checking its graph. It only brings a question to you when the answer is genuinely personal (only you know it).

Note

Research during a conversation is always on. Letting Moko chase its open questions unprompted, on its own idle time, is opt-in — off by default (it pulls in untrusted web content), enabled at setup or with moko config curiosity.autonomous_research on.

How it asks you

• In the flow of conversation when there’s a natural opening.
• Unprompted when there isn’t — but only within the proactivity governors.
• Gently, spaced out, never a quiz.

It compounds

Every answer feeds the graph with its source, and may open new gaps. The more Moko knows, the sharper its questions get.