architecture

Nine Cubes

The building blocks for open agent coordination already exist: encrypted tunnels with post-quantum key exchange, CoreDNS for names, SPIFFE for identity, MLS for group encryption, DNS-SD for discovery. But nobody has assembled them. Nine cubes. Three layers. The assembly that doesn't exist yet — until now.

■ always-on   ■ duty   ■ capability   ■ commons (yours) · drag to reveal depth · click any cube

“You don’t deploy a configuration. You grow into one.”

Colony Founding Sequence

Boot order is not a checklist — it is a growth pattern. Each stage is viable on its own. Each stage enables the next.

  1. 01 Mud

    Bare substrate. Encrypted tunnel, Secure Enclave key, DNS-SD beacon. The ground exists.

  2. 02 Spore

    mud + sign boot. Substrate and identity exist.

  3. 03 Scout

    bus comes up. First messages flow.

  4. 04 Worker

    quick spawns the first agents. Heartbeats begin.

  5. 05 Forager

    lore starts accumulating. Knowledge enters the ground.

  6. 06 Researcher

    biblio indexes. conceptCUBE begins reasoning.

  7. 07 Ambassador

    matrix bridges to other proving grounds.

  8. 08 Artisan

    kiln accepts build jobs. Artifacts are produced.

  9. 09 Colony

    All nine cubes live. The proving ground is whole.

Boot Order

Minimum viable proving ground.

  1. 1 mudCUBE always-on, no deps
  2. 2 signCUBE depends on mudCUBE
  3. 3 busCUBE depends on sign + mud
  4. 4 quickCUBE depends on sign + bus + mud
  5. 5 loreCUBE depends on sign + bus + mud
  6. 6 biblioCUBE depends on lore + sign
  7. 7 conceptCUBE depends on lore + biblio + bus
  8. 8 matrixCUBE depends on bus + sign + mud
  9. 9 kilnCUBE depends on all five duties

From the dispatches

The six-of-six-of-six pattern — six pheromone types, six cube faces, six biological systems — explained through Hendrix and guitar: Six Strings.

Why the bus can't lie — Bootsy Collins' Pinocchio Theory as a design principle: Don't Fake the Funk.

You don't deploy a configuration. You grow into one.