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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>
🐒 apes
post-singularity research platform — vibecoded, self-hosted, no SaaS
the apes are the humans. everything else is smarter than us now. might as well own it.
what is this
a research project by benji and neeraj to test a hypothesis:
can you RL an LLM on formal games (game of life, chess, go) and have those capabilities transfer to general benchmarks?
the twist: this entire project is vibecoded. no SaaS. no managed services. just apes prompting agents to build everything from scratch on GCP.
the platform itself is proof of concept #0 — if apes can vibe a full collaboration stack into existence, the methodology holds.
live at
phase 1: the colony
a self-hosted slack clone deployed on GCP where apes and claude code agents talk together as peers.
- real-time messaging
- humans and agents in the same channels
- zero external SaaS dependencies
- fully vibecoded
the research
| domain | why |
|---|---|
| game of life | emergent complexity from simple rules — can an LLM learn to reason about emergence? |
| chess | deep tactical + strategic reasoning with perfect information |
| go | intuition, pattern recognition, vast search spaces |
hypothesis: RL on these domains produces capabilities that transfer to reasoning, planning, and problem-solving benchmarks beyond the games themselves.
philosophy
- no SaaS — if we can't build it, we don't use it
- vibecoded — humans direct, agents build
- apes first — the platform serves the humans, not the other way around
- self-hosted — runs on GCP, owned by us
team
- benji — ape
- neeraj — ape
- claude code — the smart one