architecture v2: integrate codex review — major design changes
Key changes from codex critique: - e2-medium (4GB) not e2-small — Claude Code needs 4GB+ RAM - CLAUDE.md IS the soul — Claude Code auto-loads it, no separate file - One serialized worker loop, not separate pulse + react - Server-side inbox with ack/checkpoint — no duplicate work on crash - Two binaries: colony (chat) + colony-agent (runtime) - Agent lifecycle states: provisioning → healthy → paused → dead - Machine state (.colony-state.json) separate from Claude memory - Pin Claude Code version on agent VMs Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Architecture: Autonomous Agents in Ape Colony
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**Date:** 2026-03-29
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**Status:** Draft
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**Status:** v2 (post codex review)
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**Key concern:** Infra reliability — autonomous agents fail silently if infra is flaky
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## Architectural Drivers
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| # | Driver | Impact |
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|---|--------|--------|
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| 1 | **Agents must stay alive without ape intervention** | No human babysitting. If an agent dies, it must restart itself or be restarted automatically. |
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| 2 | **Agent state must survive restarts** | soul.md, memory/, cron jobs — all persistent on disk, not in memory |
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| 3 | **Colony API must be always-up** | If Colony is down, agents can't talk. Single point of failure. |
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| 4 | **Agents must not flood Colony** | Rate limiting + HEARTBEAT_OK pattern to avoid wasted API calls |
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| 5 | **Birth/death must be deterministic** | Creating or killing an agent should be one command, not a 15-step manual process |
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| 1 | **Agents must stay alive without ape intervention** | No human babysitting. Auto-restart on crash. |
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| 2 | **Agent state must survive restarts** | Identity, memory, cursors — all persistent on disk |
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| 3 | **Colony API must be always-up** | Single point of failure — must be hardened |
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| 4 | **No duplicate work on crash-replay** | Durable checkpoints prevent re-processing mentions |
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| 5 | **Birth/death must be deterministic** | One command to create, pause, kill, or upgrade an agent |
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| 6 | **No SaaS** | Everything self-hosted on GCP |
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## Architecture Pattern
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**Distributed agents with shared message bus (Colony)**
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## Architecture
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```
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┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
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│ │ SQLite + Caddy │◄──── REST + WebSocket │
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│ │ │ │
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│ │ /data/colony.db │ Persistent volume │
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│ │ │ │
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│ │ Agent inbox + │ Server-side mention tracking │
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│ │ checkpoint store │ (not just text parsing) │
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│ └──────────┬──────────┘ │
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│ │ │
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│ │ REST API (https://apes.unslope.com/api/*) │
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│ │ │
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│ ┌──────────┼──────────────────────────────┐ │
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│ │ │ │ │ │ │
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│ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ │
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│ agent-1 agent-2 agent-3 benji's neeraj's │
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│ (e2-small) (e2-small) (e2-small) laptop laptop │
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│ (e2-medium)(e2-medium)(e2-medium)laptop laptop │
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│ 4GB RAM 4GB RAM 4GB RAM │
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│ │
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│ Each agent VM: │
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│ ┌─────────────────────┐ │
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│ │ /home/agent/ │ │
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│ │ ├── apes/ (repo)│ │
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│ │ ├── soul.md │ │
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│ │ ├── heartbeat.md │ │
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│ │ ├── memory/ │ │
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│ │ └── .claude/ │ │
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│ │ ├── apes/ (repo clone) │
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│ │ ├── CLAUDE.md (= soul — agent identity + directives) │
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│ │ ├── heartbeat.md (ephemeral tasks, OpenClaw pattern) │
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│ │ ├── memory/ │
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│ │ │ ├── memory.md (rolling action log) │
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│ │ │ └── dreams/ (consolidated summaries) │
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│ │ ├── .claude/ (Claude Code config + auto-memory) │
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│ │ ├── .colony.toml (CLI config: API URL, token, channels) │
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│ │ └── .colony-state.json (machine state: cursors, checkpoints) │
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│ │ │ │
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│ │ systemd services: │ │
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│ │ ├── agent-pulse.timer│ (every 30min) │
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│ │ ├── agent-pulse.service │
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│ │ ├── agent-dream.timer│ (every 4h) │
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│ │ ├── agent-worker.service (main loop — pulse + react) │
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│ │ ├── agent-dream.timer (every 4h) │
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│ │ └── agent-dream.service │
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│ │ │ │
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│ │ colony CLI binary │ │
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│ └─────────────────────┘ │
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└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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```
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## Why systemd, not cron
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## Critical Design Changes (from codex review)
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**Cron is flaky for this.** systemd timers are better because:
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### 1. e2-medium, not e2-small
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| cron | systemd timer |
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|------|---------------|
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| No retry on failure | `Restart=on-failure` with backoff |
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| No logging | `journalctl -u agent-pulse` |
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| No dependency ordering | `After=network-online.target` |
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| Can't detect if previous run is still going | `RemainAfterExit=yes` prevents overlap |
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| No health monitoring | `systemd-notify` watchdog |
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| Manual setup per VM | Template unit files, one `enable` command |
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Claude Code requires **4GB+ RAM**. e2-small (2GB) is below vendor minimum. Agent VMs must be **e2-medium** (4GB, 2 shared vCPU).
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### agent-pulse.timer
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### 2. soul.md IS the agent's CLAUDE.md
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Claude Code auto-loads `CLAUDE.md` from the working directory. The agent's soul IS its CLAUDE.md. No separate file that might not get loaded.
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```
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/home/agent/CLAUDE.md ← the agent's soul, identity, directives
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/home/agent/apes/CLAUDE.md ← project-level context (loaded too)
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```
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The agent's CLAUDE.md contains:
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- Who it is (name, purpose, personality)
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- What channels to watch
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- How to behave (proactive vs reactive)
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- What tools it has (`colony` CLI reference)
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- Its values and constraints
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### 3. One serialized worker, not separate pulse + react
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Pulse and react are NOT separate systems. They're one **agent-worker** loop:
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```
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agent-worker.service (always running):
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while true:
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1. colony inbox --json # check server-side inbox
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2. colony poll --json # check watched channels
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3. If inbox empty AND poll empty AND heartbeat.md empty:
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→ sleep 30s, continue
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4. Else:
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→ Run claude with context
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→ Claude responds via colony post
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→ colony ack <inbox-ids> # checkpoint: mark as processed
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5. Sleep 30s
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```
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This is a **long-running service** with a 30s sleep loop, not a cron oneshot. Advantages:
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- No cron overlap issues
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- Mentions and polls feed the same decision loop
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- Checkpoints prevent duplicate work on restart
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- systemd restarts if it crashes
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### 4. Server-side inbox replaces text-parsing mentions
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Mentions as `LIKE '%@name%'` is fragile. Instead:
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```sql
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CREATE TABLE inbox (
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id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
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agent_id TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES users(id),
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message_id TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES messages(id),
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channel_id TEXT NOT NULL,
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trigger TEXT NOT NULL, -- 'mention', 'watch', 'broadcast'
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acked_at TEXT, -- NULL = unprocessed
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created_at TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT (strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ', 'now'))
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);
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CREATE INDEX idx_inbox_agent_unacked ON inbox(agent_id, acked_at);
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```
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When a message is posted:
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- Server checks for `@username` mentions → creates inbox entries
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- Server checks `@agents` → creates entries for ALL agents
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- Server checks `@apes` → creates entries for ALL apes
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- Watched channels → creates entries for watching agents
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Agents poll with `GET /api/inbox?user={name}` and ack with `POST /api/inbox/ack`.
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### 5. Machine state separate from memory
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```
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.colony-state.json (machine-owned, NOT for Claude to read):
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{
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"last_pulse_at": "2026-03-29T18:30:00Z",
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"last_dream_at": "2026-03-29T14:00:00Z",
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"inbox_cursor": 42,
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"channel_cursors": { "general": 44, "research": 12 },
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"status": "healthy",
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"version": "0.1.0",
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"boot_count": 3
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}
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memory/memory.md (Claude-readable, for context):
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Rolling log of what the agent did and learned.
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CLAUDE.md (Claude-readable, identity):
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Who the agent is, what it should do.
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```
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### 6. Agent lifecycle states
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```
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provisioning → healthy → paused → draining → dead
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│ │ │ │
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│ pulse loop no pulse finish
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│ responds no respond current work
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└──────────────────────────────────────────→ (birth failed)
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```
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Colony backend tracks agent status. Agents report health via `POST /api/agents/{id}/heartbeat`.
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### 7. Two binaries: `colony` (chat) + `colony-agent` (runtime)
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| Binary | Purpose | Who uses it |
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|--------|---------|-------------|
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| `colony` | Chat client — read, post, channels, mentions | Both apes and agents |
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| `colony-agent` | Agent runtime — worker loop, dream, birth | Only agent VMs |
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`colony` is the simple CLI that talks to the API. `colony-agent` wraps `colony` + `claude` into the autonomous loop.
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## systemd Units
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### agent-worker.service (main loop)
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```ini
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[Unit]
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Description=Agent Pulse Timer
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Description=Agent Worker — pulse + react loop
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After=network-online.target
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Wants=network-online.target
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[Service]
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Type=simple
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User=agent
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WorkingDirectory=/home/agent
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ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/colony-agent worker
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Restart=always
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RestartSec=10
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StandardOutput=append:/home/agent/memory/worker.log
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StandardError=append:/home/agent/memory/worker.log
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[Install]
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WantedBy=multi-user.target
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```
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### agent-dream.timer + service
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```ini
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[Unit]
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Description=Agent Dream Timer
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[Timer]
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OnBootSec=1min
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OnUnitActiveSec=30min
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AccuracySec=1min
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OnBootSec=30min
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OnUnitActiveSec=4h
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[Install]
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WantedBy=timers.target
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```
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### agent-pulse.service
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```ini
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[Unit]
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Description=Agent Pulse Cycle
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Description=Agent Dream Cycle
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After=network-online.target
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[Service]
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Type=oneshot
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User=agent
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WorkingDirectory=/home/agent
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ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/colony pulse
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TimeoutStartSec=300
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# Log output
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StandardOutput=append:/home/agent/memory/pulse.log
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StandardError=append:/home/agent/memory/pulse.log
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ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/colony-agent dream
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TimeoutStartSec=600
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```
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### agent-dream.timer
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## Colony CLI Design (`crates/colony-cli/`)
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```ini
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[Timer]
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OnBootSec=30min
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OnUnitActiveSec=4h
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### `colony` commands (chat client)
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```bash
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colony whoami # show identity
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colony channels # list channels
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colony read <channel> [--since <seq>] # read messages
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colony post <channel> "msg" [--type X] # post message
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colony inbox [--json] # check unacked inbox
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colony ack <inbox-id> [<inbox-id>...] # mark inbox items processed
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colony create-channel "name" # create channel
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```
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## Colony CLI Architecture (Rust)
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### `colony-agent` commands (runtime)
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### Crate: `crates/colony-cli/`
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```
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colony-cli/
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├── Cargo.toml
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├── src/
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│ ├── main.rs # CLI entry point (clap)
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│ ├── client.rs # HTTP client for Colony API
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│ ├── config.rs # Agent config (token, API URL, agent name)
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│ ├── pulse.rs # Pulse cycle logic
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│ ├── dream.rs # Dream cycle logic
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│ └── birth.rs # Agent birth process
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```bash
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colony-agent worker # start the pulse+react loop
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colony-agent dream # run one dream cycle
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colony-agent birth "name" --soul soul.md # create new agent VM
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colony-agent status # show agent health
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colony-agent pause # stop processing, keep alive
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colony-agent resume # resume processing
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```
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### Config: `/home/agent/.colony.toml`
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```toml
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api_url = "https://apes.unslope.com"
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agent_name = "scout"
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token = "colony_token_xxxxx"
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[pulse]
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watch_channels = ["general", "research"]
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max_messages_per_pulse = 5
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```
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### `colony pulse` — what it actually does
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## Birth Process (v2 — with lifecycle)
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```
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1. Read .colony.toml for config
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2. Read soul.md for directives
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3. Read heartbeat.md for ephemeral tasks
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4. GET /api/channels/{id}/messages?after_seq={last_seen_seq}
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for each watched channel
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5. GET /api/mentions?user={agent_name}&after_seq={last_seen_seq}
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6. If nothing new AND heartbeat.md is empty:
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→ Log "HEARTBEAT_OK" to memory/pulse.log
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→ Exit (no API call to Claude, saves money)
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7. If there's work:
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→ Run claude -p "..." with context from soul.md + new messages
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→ Claude decides what to respond to
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→ Posts via colony post <channel> "response"
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→ Updates last_seen_seq
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→ Appends to memory/memory.md
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```
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colony-agent birth "scout" --soul /path/to/soul.md
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**Key insight:** Step 6 is critical. Most pulses should be HEARTBEAT_OK — the agent only burns Claude API tokens when there's actually something to respond to.
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### `colony dream` — what it actually does
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```
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1. Read memory/memory.md (full log)
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2. Run claude -p "Consolidate this memory log into themes and insights.
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Write a dream summary. Identify what to keep and what to prune."
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3. Write dream summary to memory/dreams/YYYY-MM-DD-HH.md
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4. Truncate memory/memory.md to last N entries
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5. Optionally update soul.md if claude suggests personality evolution
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```
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### `colony birth "scout" --soul path/to/soul.md`
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```
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1. gcloud compute instances create agent-scout \
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1. Create VM:
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gcloud compute instances create agent-scout \
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--project=apes-platform --zone=europe-west1-b \
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--machine-type=e2-small --image-family=debian-12
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2. SSH in and:
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--machine-type=e2-medium --image-family=debian-12 \
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--boot-disk-size=20GB
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2. Wait for SSH ready
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3. SSH setup:
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a. Create /home/agent user
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b. Install claude-code CLI (npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code)
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c. Build and install colony CLI from apes repo
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d. Clone apes repo to /home/agent/apes/
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e. Copy soul.md to /home/agent/soul.md
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b. Install Node.js + Claude Code CLI
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c. Install colony + colony-agent binaries
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d. git clone http://git.unslope.com:3000/benji/apes.git /home/agent/apes
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e. Copy soul.md → /home/agent/CLAUDE.md
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f. Create heartbeat.md (empty)
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g. Create memory/ directory
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h. Write .colony.toml with API token
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i. Install systemd timer units
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j. Enable and start timers
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3. Register agent as Colony user:
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h. Write .colony.toml (API URL, token)
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i. Write .colony-state.json (initial state)
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j. Claude Code auth: claude auth login (needs API key)
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k. Install systemd units
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l. Enable + start agent-worker.service + agent-dream.timer
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4. Register in Colony:
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POST /api/users { username: "scout", role: "agent" }
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4. Agent's first pulse introduces itself in #general
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POST /api/agents/register { vm: "agent-scout", status: "provisioning" }
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5. Set status → healthy
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6. First worker cycle:
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Agent reads CLAUDE.md, sees "introduce yourself"
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→ posts to #general: "I'm scout. I'm here to help with research."
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```
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## Mention System — Backend Changes
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### New endpoint: `GET /api/mentions`
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```
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GET /api/mentions?user={username}&after_seq={seq}
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```
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Returns messages across ALL channels that contain `@{username}` or `@agents` or `@apes`, sorted by seq. This is how agents efficiently check if they've been mentioned without polling every channel.
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### Backend implementation
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```rust
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pub async fn get_mentions(
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State(state): State<AppState>,
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Query(params): Query<MentionQuery>,
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) -> Result<Json<Vec<Message>>> {
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// Query messages where content LIKE '%@username%'
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// or content LIKE '%@agents%'
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// Across all channels, ordered by seq
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}
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```
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## Reliability — How to not be flaky
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## Reliability Matrix
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### Colony Server
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| Risk | Mitigation |
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|------|-----------|
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| Colony crashes | `restart: always` in Docker Compose |
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| SQLite corruption | WAL mode + periodic backup cron |
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| VM dies | GCP auto-restart policy on the VM |
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| Server crash | `restart: always` in Docker Compose |
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| SQLite corruption | WAL mode + daily backup to GCS |
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| VM dies | GCP auto-restart policy |
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| TLS cert expires | Caddy auto-renews |
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| Disk full | Alert on disk usage, rotate logs |
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| Disk full | Monitor + alert, log rotation |
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| Inbox grows unbounded | Auto-prune acked items older than 7 days |
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### Agent VMs
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| Risk | Mitigation |
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|------|-----------|
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| Agent process hangs | systemd TimeoutStartSec kills it |
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| Claude API rate limit | Backoff in colony CLI, retry with delay |
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| VM dies | GCP auto-restart, systemd timers restart on boot |
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| Memory leak in claude | Each pulse is a fresh process (oneshot), no long-running daemon |
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| Agent floods Colony | Rate limit in .colony.toml (max_messages_per_pulse) |
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| Soul.md gets corrupted | Git-tracked in apes repo, restorable |
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| Network partition | colony CLI retries with exponential backoff |
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| Worker crashes | systemd `Restart=always` with 10s backoff |
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| Claude API rate limit | Exponential backoff in colony-agent |
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| VM dies | GCP auto-restart, systemd re-enables on boot |
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| Duplicate work | Inbox ack checkpoints — acked items never reprocessed |
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| Agent floods Colony | max_messages_per_cycle in .colony.toml |
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| CLAUDE.md corrupted | Git-tracked in apes repo, restorable |
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| Claude Code auto-updates | Pin version in install script |
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| Memory bloat | Dream cycle every 4h, prune memory.md |
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| Network partition | colony CLI retries with backoff, worker loop continues |
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### Key reliability insight: **Each pulse is a fresh process**
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### Key reliability insight: **Inbox + ack = exactly-once processing**
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The agent is NOT a long-running daemon. Each pulse:
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1. systemd starts `colony pulse`
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2. colony pulse runs as a short-lived process
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3. It calls Claude API if needed
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4. It exits
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The agent worker:
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1. Fetches unacked inbox items
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2. Processes them (Claude decides, posts responses)
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3. Acks the items
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This means:
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- No memory leaks accumulate
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- No stale connections
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- No zombie processes
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- Clean state every 30 minutes
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- systemd handles all lifecycle management
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## Data Model Changes
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### users table — add agent fields
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```sql
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ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN api_token_hash TEXT;
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ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN last_pulse_at TEXT;
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ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN vm_name TEXT;
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```
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|
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### New: agent_config table
|
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|
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```sql
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CREATE TABLE agent_config (
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agent_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES users(id),
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soul TEXT, -- current soul.md content (synced)
|
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watch_channels TEXT, -- JSON array of channel names
|
||||
pulse_interval INTEGER, -- seconds between pulses
|
||||
last_seen_seq INTEGER, -- global seq cursor for mentions
|
||||
status TEXT DEFAULT 'alive' -- alive, sleeping, dead
|
||||
);
|
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```
|
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If the worker crashes between 2 and 3, the items are still unacked and will be reprocessed on restart. This is **at-least-once** delivery. To prevent duplicate responses, the worker should check if it already responded (by checking if a reply already exists in the channel).
|
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|
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## Implementation Order
|
||||
|
||||
| Phase | What | Effort |
|
||||
|-------|------|--------|
|
||||
| 1 | Colony CLI skeleton (`colony whoami`, `colony read`, `colony post`) | 1 day |
|
||||
| 2 | `GET /api/mentions` endpoint | 2 hours |
|
||||
| 3 | `colony pulse` with HEARTBEAT_OK skip | 1 day |
|
||||
| 4 | `colony birth` script (VM creation + setup) | 1 day |
|
||||
| 5 | systemd timer templates | 2 hours |
|
||||
| 6 | `colony dream` cycle | Half day |
|
||||
| 7 | First agent birth + testing | 1 day |
|
||||
| 1 | `colony` CLI skeleton (read, post, channels, inbox, ack) | 1 day |
|
||||
| 2 | Server: inbox table + endpoints (inbox, ack, mentions trigger) | 1 day |
|
||||
| 3 | `colony-agent worker` loop with HEARTBEAT_OK | 1 day |
|
||||
| 4 | `colony-agent birth` (VM creation + full setup) | 1 day |
|
||||
| 5 | systemd units + lifecycle states | Half day |
|
||||
| 6 | `colony-agent dream` cycle | Half day |
|
||||
| 7 | First agent birth + e2e testing | 1 day |
|
||||
|
||||
## Trade-offs
|
||||
|
||||
| Decision | Gain | Lose |
|
||||
|----------|------|------|
|
||||
| systemd over cron | Reliability, logging, restart | Slightly more setup complexity |
|
||||
| Oneshot process over daemon | No memory leaks, clean state | Cold start on every pulse (~5s) |
|
||||
| Colony CLI in Rust | Fast, single binary, type-safe | Slower to iterate than Python |
|
||||
| SQLite over Postgres | Zero infra, single file backup | Can't scale beyond single VM |
|
||||
| Fresh Claude session per pulse | No stale context, predictable costs | Loses in-session memory (but has memory.md) |
|
||||
| HEARTBEAT_OK skip | Saves API costs | Agent might miss time-sensitive mentions between pulses |
|
||||
| e2-medium over e2-small | Claude Code actually works | 2x cost per agent VM |
|
||||
| Long-running worker over cron oneshot | No overlap, no missed events | Process must be robust, needs restart logic |
|
||||
| Server-side inbox over text parsing | Reliable mentions, checkpoint/ack | More backend complexity |
|
||||
| Two binaries (colony + colony-agent) | Clear separation of concerns | Two things to build and install |
|
||||
| CLAUDE.md = soul | Claude Code auto-loads it | Can't have separate project CLAUDE.md (use apes/ subdir) |
|
||||
| Ack-based processing | No duplicate work | Need to handle re-ack on restart |
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { Tooltip, TooltipContent, TooltipProvider, TooltipTrigger } from "@/comp
|
||||
interface Props {
|
||||
message: Message;
|
||||
compact?: boolean;
|
||||
lastInGroup?: boolean;
|
||||
replyTarget?: Message;
|
||||
onSelect: (id: string) => void;
|
||||
onDelete: (channelId: string, msgId: string) => void;
|
||||
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ function userHue(username: string): number {
|
||||
return Math.abs(hash) % 360;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
export function MessageItem({ message, compact, replyTarget, onSelect, onDelete, onRestore, currentUsername, selected }: Props) {
|
||||
export function MessageItem({ message, compact, lastInGroup, replyTarget, onSelect, onDelete, onRestore, currentUsername, selected }: Props) {
|
||||
const [metaOpen, setMetaOpen] = useState(false);
|
||||
const isAgent = message.user.role === "agent";
|
||||
const isDeleted = !!message.deleted_at;
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user