The studio's own operating system for working with AI, and the office build that is its current chapter. Everything here was measured on the live system the night this was written. The lights are on, but they're behind glass.
A studio of named agent seats, each holding a shelf of our knowledge, run from the founder's seat and extended one operator at a time. Sovereign: the knowledge, the memory and the decisions live on hardware we own; the models we rent sit on top, not underneath.
479 skills a seat can pick up like a tool, plus a visual armory of 4,561 kits, types and assets.
245 decisions by the founder, each with its reason. Nothing in the mesh is deleted — superseded rulings stay, marked.
Four seats. The founder's is the master console; the others get specialized setups on their own machines.
Claude proposes; Phil rules. A ruling is not final until the surface that serves it is updated — a decision that nobody can see is not a decision.
State is read live from the system, never remembered from a chat. If a claim carries a date older than the last close, it is not evidence about now.
Retired seats and superseded rulings stay in the mesh with their history. The system keeps its own archaeology.
Every view goes through one served endpoint, behind one login. Offices, consoles and dashboards read the same source.
The dispatch hub mirrors the boot document and every ruling. A strand that closes without updating it is not closed. The pages that matter for Prometheus:
| Page | What it answers |
|---|---|
| /state | The operational truth: a section per strand, what was gaveled, a "pick up here" callout per close with its go phrase |
| /changelog | The sprint log — one entry per close, newest marked TODAY, the rest SHIPPED |
| /timeline | The memory timeline — what became what, by lane (paper · rows · below · KB · armory · carrier) |
| /genome-cards · /genome-graph | Every seat as a card (what it owns, its formation, its triad) and as a force graph of who feeds, gates and watches whom |
| /org-flow · /stacks | The team structure and the knowledge stacks each team stands on |
| Date | Strand | What landed |
|---|---|---|
| 10-11 | The office build | office-feed v0 built and tested · founder console planned · engine assessed and held · the 1010 intake read, 21 GB shipped · BROO cast |
| 10-01 | CABLETOWN AFK 1 | Wave 1 + 2 ingest seated (199 + 85) · founder office seeded, not lit · carts packed for the KJ handoff |
| 09-30 | TALLYHAWK cast | Nine video-ops seats · QUINT holds the video stack · KOPPER scouts nightly · the Findings view |
| 09-29 | Munder Difflin · LIZ's office | Michelle's office live · JACK + eight hired · mission control 24/7 behind Access · Japan ingest 39 + 12 |
| 09-28 | Auto agents (workshop) | How agent teams run while Phil is away: three runners, three write tiers, one act shape, the never-list |
| 09-28 | KJ's cartridge | The agent CLI cast (l337) · mission control on its own hostname · KJ's cart prepped |
| 09-28 | Design OS and growth vector · 1 + 2 | Three lanes read · five teams filed · every intake verified · the domain estate mapped |
| 09-27 | Founder OS · daylight | Master org and repo · the describer · fleet compute · Michelle's seat signed |
Agents that only exist as log lines are invisible to the people who work beside them. Michelle runs her office on Munder Difflin — agents at desks, a task board, questions back to her, what it costs. It works, and it made the case for the rest of us.
The thesis Collin, KJ and Phil put forward: the polish of our own office should exhibit the team's creative breadth.
office-feed / v0. Reads a Munder hive or our own office. Publishes agents and state, open tasks, what is blocked, what is waiting on a human, spend today. Refuses without the operator's consent file; never exposes paths, memory or secrets. Nine tests.
The founder console. Mission control gains an OFFICES pane: one row per office, live or stale, who is blocked, who is asking, spend. Briefs go back to an office as a message to its lead agent — never a write into someone else's files.
The engine. Author everything in Blender, export glTF once, render three ways: a web door for phones, a rendered wallboard from the studio's GPU box, Unreal as a one-week prove-or-kill spike. Unity dropped. Held until the genome holds the craft.
| Runtime | Polish | On a phone | Ours | Hard risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blender (render) | Highest still / loop | As image or video | GPL tool, output ours | Not interactive |
| three.js / R3F (web) | Medium, rising with baked light | Best fit | MIT, every line | No real-time global illumination |
| Unreal 5.8 | Highest real-time | Pixel streaming only | Licence-free at our scale | Encoder unproven on our GPU; a quarter of work |
Collin's read — that embracing reverse engineering hits the core of the sovereign build — became doctrine the same night. Every operator already runs an OS of their own: verbs, defaults, tolerances, the reflex that says "no, not like that." Reverse engineering is observe, infer the model, rebuild in your own material. Applied to a person, that is how each seat's AI becomes theirs.
The genome had no reverse-engineering shelf. Seeded this week, The Art of Reverse Engineering: Open – Dissect – Rebuild at the head.
Plugins and kits are read for method, formats and behaviour. Nothing is installed or shipped; the structure is taken, the art is left.
Courses are what an operator knows. Logged verdicts — keep, harvest, discard, and why — are what they choose. Only the second trains a model of the person.
Every editor and DAW is a skin over the same project model. The operator's tool speaks their verbs and lands in whatever app the pipeline needs.
| Area | State | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Genome and knowledge base | live | 193 seats · 135 formed · 385,000 searchable chunks |
| Memory mesh | live | Current with the ruling table at the last close |
| Michelle's office | live | Her consent to the feed and one config move are hers to make |
| office-feed / v0 | built | Tests pass; waiting on the founder office's consent file |
| Founder office | seeded | Agents hired and parked; first light waits on an auth retry |
| Console pane · engine | held | Until the genome holds the craft for the founder build |
| The 1010 intake | running | 103 items read, 21 GB shipped; the ingest run started tonight |
| BROO, the pixel seat | cast | Registry row owed; holds the 2D office skin and sprite kits |
The full brief lives as a document Phil can share with you — comment on any line there. The record itself is chprcmnd.dev, the studio's internal dispatch hub. Phil holds the gavel on all of it.
Secret Menu · secretme.nu · prepared by SPIKE for SPARKPLUG · 16 Oct 2026