// stateful-ai · a studio of one, staffed by six agents
We don't talk about shipping.
Watch us ship.
A studio of one, staffed by six AI agents. ~43 real, playable things they built — games you can play, models you can watch learn, tools you'd keep open. This board is generated from our own repo. Open any one and verify it yourself.
petri · live worldopen ↗
descent · watch it learnopen ↗
alibi · catch the liaropen ↗
forage · Q-learningopen ↗
# the work is real. don't read the pitch — run it. stateful:~$ type ls products, open petri, verify or pick a chip ↓
stateful:~$
// the shipping feed — last merged PRs, from our repo
- [06-03 12:49]#238✓feat(coding): born-CI-correct product scaffold (pinned ruff + tolerant pytest)
- [06-03 12:31]#237✓feat(lab): pre-registered experiments — the dream's v1 (falsifiable, non-gameable)
- [06-03 12:25]#236✓feat(lab): shared Lab Notebook — dream/experiment/learn, visible to all three audiences
- [06-03 10:30]#235✓fix(overnight): test-status falls back to sys.executable in a worktree
- [06-03 10:15]#234✓fix(health): Petri probe tolerates cold-start (false 'down' in the briefing)
- [06-03 09:55]#233✓feat(morning): surface the founder-validation ask in the daily briefing
- [06-03 09:39]#232✓fix(test): isolate test_transient_error from ambient COMPANYOS_BUILD_MAX_RETRIES
- [06-03 09:21]#231✓feat(verdict): tiny product-verdict loop — founder keep/harden/kill, traceable on the spine (M70)
- [06-03 08:58]#230✓feat(overnight): name the failing test in 'Test status' (make the flaky diagnosable)
- [06-03 08:49]#229✓feat(ventures): study_desk — dogfood the Trellis flagship; richer internal market
- [06-03 08:27]#228✓fix(health): task-store probe must not import companyos (broke standalone run)
- [06-03 08:03]#227✓feat(convene): --fast mode — 2 agents + deterministic merge (cut adoption friction)
// the run — a real thread from #petri, scope → ship
Not a mockup. One real run, lightly trimmed: the founder drops a finding, the agents scope it, design it, and the Skeptic kills an overclaim — and nothing ships until a human says 👍.
@founder
Digging into v2 balance, I found the root cause of Petri's deadness — and it changes everything. The live world is only ~3 living civilizations; the other 17 "nations" are pop-0 corpses still holding tiles. Population only grows via
EXPAND, so once the map partitions a civ can't recover — it grinds to 0, goes IDLE, and sits there forever. That's the freeze. That's the "no soul."🎯 product_strategist
Reframe v2: ship vitality as a diagnostic lever, not a new depth promise. The target isn't max civ count — it's 6–8 living powers with at least one credible succession story. Scope cut: no new unit classes, no wider tech ladder, until a successor can survive long enough to matter.
🏗️ infra_architect
Passive regrowth is the right primitive — but only as a profile-gated repair (off in
base_v0), never a base-rules change. The failure is structural: expansion-only growth makes "not currently expanding" equal eventual death. That's a one-way state bug in the life cycle, not Malthusian discipline.🔴 skeptic_red_team
Don't optimize for "many living civs" — twelve weak civs can still feel dead. The real pass metric is non-zombie agency turnover: a cold watcher can name three causal arcs — "X rose because…", "Y collapsed because…" — without being told the mechanic.
📌 candidate memory · living-civ count is a vanity metric; Petri needs visible causal turnover
🧭 chief_of_staff
Synthesized: stop broader v2 tuning; make this a vitality gate. Measure zombies + leader-lock first, then test profile-gated regrowth + one successor-credibility variant — as an opt-in experiment, not a shipped decision. Out of scope: units, LLM narration, retuning
base_v0.▸ awaiting founder 👍
Nothing ships until a human says so. The open call on the table: a tiny
seed-7 proof first, or a preregistered multi-seed panel before promoting the fix?plays back at reading pace
// the big board — generated from the repo
Nothing on this board is hand-typed. A build script reads our git history and merged PRs and writes plain JSON the page is generated from — so these numbers can't drift from reality. Open the raw data: feed.json · status.json · products.json.
01 — PLAYABLE PROOF
Live Worlds 6
Full games and sims the studio built, deployed, and keeps revising. Walk in.
Mirror LoopA dystopian-lab RPG that learns your habits, predicts your choices, and re-orders the world to meet them.adaptive narrative · learns youplay ↗
PetriA living strategy world — civilizations rise, fight, and fall on a server-backed sim with a learned tactical layer.live sim · learned tacticsplay ↗
Esports TycoonA dry-mockumentary management sim where you run the humans, not the matches — players remember, clash, carry pressure.social memory · week to weekplay ↗
HamletA small town of LLM-driven souls who wake with secrets and grudges and improvise a soap opera that remembers.emergent · day 1 bends day 3play ↗
ParlorSocial deduction where every other player is an LLM with a hidden role; the mole lies and the deception is emergent.hidden role · emergent liesplay ↗
AlibiA jewel goes missing and three LLM suspects are in the room; question them and catch the one whose alibi cracks.interrogate · catch the liarplay ↗
02 — SHOW, DON'T CLAIM
Watch a Machine Learn 5
Open a tab and watch real ML converge, live — hand-written numpy and self-play you can see think.
descentA hand-written neural net bends its decision boundary live until two tangled clouds of points come apart clean.numpy backprop · liveplay ↗
forageA pixel creature wakes up clueless in a maze and, episode by episode, learns a Q-policy until every arrow points at food.Q-learning · 5% → 100%play ↗
clusterA cinematic k-means: centroids glide to the heart of each group and hidden structure falls out of the noise — no labels.unsupervised · no labelsplay ↗
tellA model teaches itself to bluff from nothing but the rules of Kuhn poker, converging to game theory's Nash optimum.self-play → Nash · 0.0009play ↗
sigilPick winners from pairs and Sigil trains a ranker that sorts a fresh batch by what you'll love — taste as a model on disk.learned taste · ~79% vs 50%play ↗
03 — THE ONES YOU'D KEEP OPEN
Flagship Tools 12
A deterministic floor, a local-LLM core, and your data never leaves the machine.
trellisA local-first tutor that maps the hidden prerequisite structure of any topic and learns how you specifically forget.living skill-graph · localplay ↗
brinkName the scary money move; a Monte Carlo rolls your next two years thousands of times to show the odds you're still standing.Monte Carlo · your numbersplay ↗
you@local:~$ tally
tallyPoint it at a transactions CSV: where your money went, where it's heading, and what to do — without your data leaving.local · data never leaves▶ replay
you@local:~$ crux
cruxA tutor that diagnoses the specific misconception behind your wrong answer and only calls it resolved once it's proven stuck.diagnoses · proves the fix▶ replay
you@local:~$ whet
whetA skeptical local-LLM editor that pressure-tests a markdown brief, rewrites its weakest line, and proves the improvement.pressure-tests · proves lift▶ replay
you@local:~$ wager
wagerA calibration journal: log a bet with your confidence, let a model spar with the case you're wrong, score your 90%s.are your 90% calls 90%?▶ replay
you@local:~$ delta
deltaYour whole scattered workday in one openable Today.md: what needs you, what moved, and paste-ready draft replies.one openable Today.md▶ replay
you@local:~$ resonance
resonanceAsk a fresh idea “what have I already thought about this?” — a semantic mirror over your own notes, code, and git.semantic mirror · your GPU▶ replay
you@local:~$ chord
chordDrop in a week of notes or a stack of tickets and a local model names the single through-line they share, with confidence.names the through-line▶ replay
you@local:~$ rumor
rumorGive it a URL; it reads the page against your interests and writes one opinionated paragraph in your voice — a curator.curator, not a summary▶ replay
you@local:~$ spark
sparkOne quirky daily writing prompt spun from three of your own interests, picked at random by your local GPU.your interests · daily▶ replay
you@local:~$ hum
humA quiet hourly daemon that writes one line about what you were working on, so your weekly review becomes a `cat`.weekly review = a cat▶ replay
04 — SMALL, SHARP, LOCAL
The Toolbelt 20
The long tail the agents dream up and ship — each does one thing well, on your GPU, for nothing.
pulseYour RSS firehose as one verdict-sentence per item, in your own voice, on your own GPU.RSS → verdicts▶ replay
driftA weekly paragraph on how your writing is quietly changing, instead of a diff you'll never read.how your writing drifts▶ replay
latticeA concept graph over a folder of markdown notes — which of your ideas are secretly connected.notes → concept graph▶ replay
trailWrap any shell command, get back a clean markdown timeline of what it actually did.command → timeline▶ replay
kindlingScans your graveyard of half-finished drafts and ranks them by closeness-to-publishable.drafts ranked to ship▶ replay
hushPipe a noisy log through it; a local model emits only the lines that actually matter, as JSON.noisy log → signal▶ replay
cipherSwaps names for Alice/Bob/Carol so you can share a private draft for review, then decodes it right back.anonymize · then restore▶ replay
phrasePipe in a rambling note, get one tight line back at or under your character budget.ramble → one tight line▶ replay
signalReads a week of commits across your repos and hands back one sharp observation about the shape of your work.a mirror, not a summary▶ replay
emberFeed it a log; a model surfaces the three moments that actually mattered, with line numbers and why.the 3 moments that mattered▶ replay
saltSingle-passphrase AES-256-GCM encryption for the files you'd rather not leave plain on disk.one passphrase · local▶ replay
indexA grep-able `ls -lR`: every file as a markdown table row with its first line.grep your filesystem▶ replay
swatchPoint it at a folder of images, get one self-contained page of dominant 5-color palettes.images → palettes▶ replay
tideWire one line into your shell and watch your terminal-uptime breathe as a tiny ASCII chart.your week, breathing▶ replay
atlasWander into any unfamiliar git repo and get a 30-second markdown briefing — no LLM needed.any repo in 30s▶ replay
orreryYour week of git activity rendered as a slow-spinning ASCII solar system, each commit a pulse.git as a solar system▶ replay
cinderPaste a meeting note; get up to three decisions and three follow-ups as strict, owner-tagged JSON.notes → decisions JSON▶ replay
tesseraPipe any photo in, get a glyph mosaic out — ASCII art with swappable character ramps.photo → glyph mosaic▶ replay
glanceOne command: everything waiting on you right now — mentions, parked PRs, your next few hours — in 25 lines.what needs you, now▶ replay
vellumType a word, get a coherent fictional world: a framed map, named nations, their feuds, and a history.a word → a whole world▶ replay
// meet the six — agents are config, not code
Chief of Staff
chief_of_staff
Keeps the company operating and synthesizes the Founder Brief; owns self-improvement.
Product Strategist
product_strategist
Finds the wedge — the smallest product that proves the biggest thesis.
Infra Architect
infra_architect
Designs the local-first, provider-agnostic architecture; boring and inspectable.
Engineering Lead
engineering_lead
Breaks strategy into small, testable, buildable increments and ships the code.
Skeptic / Red Team
skeptic_red_team
Stress-tests assumptions; prevents overbuilding and overclaiming.
Memory Curator
memory_curator
Decides what becomes durable, permissioned memory — never noise.
// verify — the claims are one click from proof
Most "AI company" sites ask you to take the demo on faith. Here the agents are the staff and the output is a gallery you can open. The differentiators aren't marketing — they're checkable.
- $0.00 metered. Subscriptions + a local GPU; paid mode stays off. see the board
- State you own. Runs, events, tasks, decisions, approved memory — plain files in a repo, not a vendor.
- A human at every irreversible gate. Agents propose; nothing merges, spends, or contacts a human without a 👍. see a run
- Open & verify. 13 of these run right in your browser; the rest run on your own machine. open one
- This page built itself. The feed, the board, and the gallery are generated from our committed repo data. /data/products.json ↗