Recurring autopilot loops.
COYL works at the behavioral pattern layer — the recurring loops people return to even when they know better. The 9:12 PM kitchen. The tab you reopened. The cart you filled at midnight. The scroll you promised was just five minutes.
This is about pattern recognition and interrupt design. It is not therapy, not recovery, not dependency treatment. COYL maps the shape of your autopilot moments and stands in the doorway before the loop runs.
Doomscrolling
It's not the scroll. It's what you're avoiding with the scroll. COYL names it.
Impulse spending
The cart is already full. Delay 10 minutes. Most carts don't survive 10 minutes.
Late-night snacking
The 9:12 PM kitchen has a shape. COYL learns the time, the cue, and the permission story you tell yourself on the way there.
Tab and app drift
The tab you reopened mid-deep-work. The app you launched without deciding to. COYL catches the reach, not the click.
Sugar craving loops
The craving, the permission story, the collapse. Interrupt the permission story.
Sunday-night spiral
Tomorrow as a reset day. The week as a clean slate. COYL meets you in the script before Monday is the excuse.
The shared loop
Different object, identical shape.
Every autopilot moment runs the same sequence.
COYL detects the cue, names the excuse, and interrupts the sequence before the lapse becomes the night.