Agent Skills: Simulation Scenarios

Simulation Scenarios

The mock control system and mock archiver are driven by a data-driven simulation engine. Scenarios are self-contained bundles under data/simulation/scenarios/<name>/: each owns its telemetry overlay (scenario.json — channel overrides and archiver event scripts) and, optionally, its logbook narrative (logbook.json). Several scenarios can be active at once as long as they touch disjoint channel sets.

Locate the simulation

Read the project config.yml and find the simulation file path:

• control_system.connector.mock.simulation_file (and usually the same path under archiver.mock_archiver.simulation_file)

The path is relative to the project root (typically data/simulation/machine.json); scenario bundles live in the sibling data/simulation/scenarios/ directory. If the key is absent, this project does not use the simulation engine — say so and stop.

List scenarios

Run osprey sim list (preferred), or read each data/simulation/scenarios/*/scenario.json and report its description. Present a table:

| Scenario | Description | Logbook | |----------|-------------|---------| | ... | ... | yes/no |

Show the active scenario set

Run osprey sim status, or read the plain-text active_scenarios file next to the machine file (data/simulation/active_scenarios). It holds one scenario name per line (plus an optional anchor=<ISO8601> metadata line). nominal is always implicitly active. A missing file means only nominal is active.

Switch / compose scenarios

Use the CLI — it validates composition, writes the state file with a shared time anchor, and seeds the active scenarios' logbook entries into ARIEL:

osprey sim apply NAME [NAME ...]      # e.g. osprey sim apply vacuum-burst rf-thermal
osprey sim apply nominal              # back to clean baseline

• Pass every fault you want active in one command; they compose. nominal is always included implicitly.
• Active scenarios must touch disjoint channel sets (no two may override or attach archiver events to the same channel). apply refuses a colliding set with a clear error — pick scenarios that don't fight over a channel.
• apply purges and reseeds the logbook DB so the narrative matches the active telemetry. Pass --no-seed to change only the telemetry state, or --yes to skip the purge confirmation.
• The switch is effective on the next channel read — no restart needed.

Important: applying scenarios resets the simulated machine — any setpoint changes written during the session are cleared. Warn the user before switching if writes were made this session.

Bundle authoring

Archiver event format (scenario.json)

A scenario's archiver entries attach events to a channel's synthesized history. Each event has a shape (step, ramp, or spike) and exactly one positioning style:

• at — fraction (0..1) of whatever time window is requested; ramps use until. Spike width is a window fraction.
• at_offset — seconds relative to the apply-time anchor (negative = past); ramps use until_offset. Spike width is in seconds.
• at_time — daily wall-clock recurrence ("HH:MM:SS", local time): the event fires at that time of day on every calendar date inside the requested window. step and spike only (no ramps). Spike width is in seconds.

A numeric channel may declare optional min/max physical bounds; live reads and synthesized history are clamped into that range on the way out (e.g. forward RF power floored at 0 saturates instead of going negative during a trip). Bounds clamp the output only — overrides and writes are stored verbatim.

Logbook format (logbook.json, optional)

A JSON array of entries. Timestamps are relative so the narrative always lands at a recent, deterministic position:

{
  "entry_id": "DEMO-026",
  "when": { "days_ago": 4, "time": "03:20:00" },
  "author": "M. Chen",
  "title": "...",
  "text": "...",
  "tags": ["rf", "temperature"],
  "categories": ["Operations"]
}

when resolves against the same apply-time anchor as the telemetry, so logbook and archiver data share one clock. A scenario with no narrative (pure telemetry) simply omits logbook.json.

Anti-patterns

Do NOT:

• Apply scenario names that are not defined under scenarios/
• Hand-edit the active_scenarios file when osprey sim apply will do it correctly (it also seeds the matching logbook)
• Compose scenarios that touch the same channel — apply will reject them
• Restart services after a switch — the engine re-reads the state file automatically