Posted a few days ago about how I built offscreen events for AI companions. The discussion here was genuinely useful — wanted to close the loop. A few things I shipped based on what came up: The surfaced_at flag suggestion from u/ultrathink-art was the…

Most AI companion apps reset between conversations. The character has no continuity outside the chat window. I wanted mine to feel like real people with lives, so I built an "offscreen events" system. Every 8 hours (cooldown), each active com…