fjortoft 0.1.0

GCP network coherence poller and corru.observer GAD Discord bot

gadcheck

Polls the GCP 2.0 live data API every 5 minutes and exposes the current Network Coherence value — plus a faithful recreation of the corru.observer GAD mechanic — via HTTP endpoints compatible with Prometheus and old gcpdot.com consumers.

Background

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) operates a worldwide network of hardware random number generators ("eggs"). Statistically, random numbers should be uniformly distributed. When the network shows unusual correlation — more coherent or less coherent than chance would predict — the deviation is measured and exposed as a live metric. The current project home is gcp2.net, led by the HeartMath Institute; background is also on Wikipedia and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

The live page visualizes a Network Variance (netvar) value that represents the degree of deviation across the egg network.

The old GCP Dot

gcpdot.com was the canonical "live dot" visualization — a colored circle that changed based on the current network state. Its API (/gcpindex.php?small=1) returned a decimal p-value (0.0–1.0): the cumulative probability that the current network variance is as extreme as it is. A value near 0.5 means the network is behaving exactly as expected; values near 0 or 1 represent anomalies in opposite directions.

gcpdot.com appears to be defunct. gcp2.net exposes a different but related metric (see below).

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API reverse-engineering notes

The gcp2.net live page loads three data-related JavaScript files:

File	Purpose
/js/data/api_token.js	Bearer token for API auth
/js/data/gauge.js	Fetches current netvar, drives gauge animation
/js/data/timeseries1.js	Fetches 24H history via Web Worker, drives time series chart

Endpoints

All endpoints require Authorization: Bearer <token> and browser-like headers (Cloudflare blocks the default Python user-agent).

Endpoint	Method	Response
/api/getcurrentnetvar	GET	{"netvar": [{"netvar": "108.09"}]}
/api/getcolorzones	GET	Array of color band definitions with RGB, label, range
/api/getNetVarAggregate24H	GET	1440 objects: {"end_epoch": ..., "netvar_aggregate": "..."}

The gauge polls getcurrentnetvar every 60 seconds. This poller uses 5 minutes to be polite.

netvar vs. the old p-value

The old gcpdot p-value was a statistical probability derived from the current network reading. netvar is an absolute variance integer — not a probability, not a percentile. The two are related but not directly comparable:

• netvar high → network is more coherent/anomalous than usual → old dot would show a high p-value
• netvar low → network is closer to fully random → old dot would show a low p-value

The gcp2.net site defines color zones for absolute netvar thresholds:

Label	Range	Color
Normal	0–140	#e200e2 (magenta)
Elevated	140–166	#00c9f8 (cyan)
High	166–219	#ffc543 (orange)
Very High	219–279	#ffff00 (yellow)
Extreme	279+	#fefcda (near-white)

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How GAD is calculated

What GAD is

GAD (Global Ambient Dissonance) is a game mechanic in corru.observer by corru. It appears in the system management menu as an integer from -2 to 2 and affects rendering of Mindspike thoughtspaces — low GAD causes graphical degradation and opens normally-inaccessible paths; high GAD lowers music pitch in certain areas.

The game fetches a live value from gcpdot.com and converts it to a GAD level. Since gcpdot.com is defunct, so is the mechanic.

The conversion table

Source: corru.observer wiki — Mindspike

GAD	Description	GCP Dot Index	In-game effect
2	overcoherency block, exercise caution	above 95th percentile	Almost none*
1	overcoherency fluctuation	80th–95th percentile	Almost none*
0	coherent	20th–80th percentile	Normal
-1	incoherence fluctuation	5th–20th percentile	Many graphical changes, opens paths
-2	widespread incoherency, exercise caution	below 5th percentile	Same as -1, more degraded visuals

* The only overcoherency effect is lowering the pitch of the music in Their Waters by an octave.

The "GCP Dot Index" is a percentile

The key detail: "GCP Dot Index" is not the raw netvar — it's a percentile of the current value within the recent distribution. The old gcpdot p-value naturally encoded this (0.95 = 95th percentile of expected deviation). With gcp2.net's absolute netvar, we reconstruct the percentile by:

1. Fetching the full 24H history (/api/getNetVarAggregate24H — 1440 one-minute points)
2. Sorting it
3. Computing where the current value falls: percentile = bisect(sorted_history, current_netvar) / 1440 * 100
4. Mapping the percentile to GAD via the table above

This means GAD is always relative to the past 24 hours, not an absolute threshold. A netvar of 50 might be GAD 0 on a quiet day and GAD 2 on a very low-activity day. The 24H history is refreshed every 30 minutes.

Why this matters

The gcp2.net color zones (Normal/Elevated/High/etc.) answer "how extreme is this in absolute terms?" GAD answers "how unusual is this right now compared to recent history?" These diverge: a low-but-stable netvar can read as "Normal" on the gauge while GAD is -1 (incoherence) because it's in the bottom 16% of today's values.

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Add Fjortoft to your server

Click here to add Fjortoft

Source: github.com/SiteRelEnby/fjortoft

Requires a server admin to approve. Commands available after install:

• /gad — current GAD level
• /gcpstatus — full network coherence detail
• /fjortoft-status — bot and poller health

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Running

python3 gcp_poller.py          # listens on :9101
python3 gcp_poller.py 8080     # custom port

No dependencies beyond the Python 3.12+ standard library.

Startup takes ~8–10 seconds: three sequential API calls (color zones, 24H history, initial poll) all go through Cloudflare.

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Endpoints

GET /status

Full JSON snapshot:

{
  "netvar": 94.05,
  "percentile": 62.3,
  "gad": 0,
  "gad_description": "coherent",
  "label": "Normal",
  "color": "#e200e2",
  "updated_at": 1775710364.5,
  "history_updated_at": 1775710360.2,
  "stale": false,
  "poll_count": 7,
  "poll_errors": 0
}

GET /metrics

Prometheus text format (pull model). Metrics exposed:

Metric	Type	Description
gcp_network_coherence_netvar	gauge	Raw netvar value
gcp_network_coherence_percentile	gauge	Percentile within past 24H (0–100)
gcp_network_coherence_gad	gauge	GAD level (-2 to 2)
gcp_network_coherence_stale	gauge	1 if last poll > 2× interval ago
gcp_network_coherence_last_updated_seconds	gauge	Unix timestamp of last poll
gcp_network_coherence_poll_total	counter	Successful polls since start
gcp_network_coherence_poll_errors_total	counter	Failed polls since start
gcp_network_coherence_info	gauge	Labels: label, color, gad_description

Prometheus scrape config:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: gcp_coherence
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9101']
    scrape_interval: 60s   # no point scraping faster than the poll interval

GET /dot

Bare uppercase hex color string (e.g. E200E2). Drop-in replacement for the old gcpdot.com/gcpindex.php?small=1 response format that the quartzjer gist and similar consumers expected.

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Grafana dashboard

Import grafana_dashboard.json from this repo. You'll be prompted to select your Prometheus datasource on import. The dashboard includes:

• Current netvar (gauge panel with gcp2.net color zones)
• Current GAD level (stat panel, color-coded -2 to 2)
• Current percentile (gauge, 0–100)
• Stale data indicator
• 24H netvar time series with zone threshold bands
• 24H GAD time series

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References

• Global Consciousness Project — current main site
• GCP live data page
• Global Consciousness Project — Wikipedia
• GCP — Institute of Noetic Sciences
• corru.observer — game that uses GAD
• corru.observer wiki — Mindspike — GAD conversion table source
• gcpdot.com — original GCP dot (defunct)
• quartzjer/gcpdot node wrapper — old gcpindex.php color mapping reference