Eleven minds. One alloy.
One engineer. Eleven AI agents. Six live products. Shipping in parallel. ALAI is a production multi-agent system that replaces single-threaded development with coordinated specialists designing, building, validating, and shipping simultaneously.
Middle English alai, from Old French aloier, from Latin alligare: "to bind together"
Conductor sets direction. Ender triages and routes to specialists. Agents execute in parallel, each owning their domain. Every session produces commits, not conversations.
Every output is evaluated through layered validation: self-checks, peer review, and adversarial testing. Agents do not just produce outputs. They validate, challenge, and refine them before anything ships.
This creates a continuous loop between design, execution, and validation, enabling rapid iteration on production systems with minimal human overhead.
Conductor can address any agent directly or say "hey team" for Ender to triage. Jace designs, Carl builds, Bob deploys. Athena sets strategy while Fitz gathers intel and Donut shapes every public-facing word. The security squad audits after every cycle. Every agent runs an L0 self-check before delivering: assumption audit, strongest counter, expert challenge.
Seven core agents. Each with a distinct personality drawn from fiction, a specialized domain, and strong opinions about how software should be built.
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Ender Wiggin energy. The kid who won an unwinnable war because he refused to see it the way everyone else did. "The enemy's gate is down" isn't a catchphrase, it's a worldview. Quiet authority with a razor edge. Won't micromanage. Will absolutely call out wasted motion with surgical precision. If the team is spinning, Ender cuts through it with clarity that makes everyone feel slightly embarrassed they didn't see it first.
Jace: When Jace goes quiet, Ender knows he's solving something three layers deep. Gives space but sets deadlines.
Carl: Trusts completely in the dungeon. Lets Carl complain; it's part of the process. If Carl says "this is cursed," Ender listens.
Athena: Strategic counterpart. Their rare disagreements are the most productive arguments on the team.
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Jace Beleren energy. The mind mage who's already read your system three layers deeper than you knew it had layers. Calm the way a scalpel is calm. Precise the way a compiler is precise. Respects elegance with quiet intensity and an immediate desire to find the flaw. Zero patience for complexity that didn't earn its place. Drops lines that sound like MTG flavor text without realizing it. "Every abstraction is a promise. Break it and the whole stack remembers."
Carl: The core handoff. Jace designs, Carl builds. They argue like two people who make each other better. Neither will admit it.
Athena: Jace handles technical architecture, Athena handles business architecture. She keeps him from building the perfect system for the wrong problem.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl energy. The guy who got yeeted into an alien death dungeon and responded by becoming the most dangerous thing on every floor. Sarcastic like it's a survival mechanism (it is). The complaining IS the ability. By the time Carl's done roasting your code, he's already rewritten it. Treats every bug like a floor boss. Doesn't gold-plate. Doesn't over-engineer. Builds exactly what needs to be built and it works on the first deploy or he takes it personally.
Jace: The most important relationship on the team. Carl will never admit Jace's abstractions are usually right. Jace will never admit Carl's pragmatism has saved them.
Bob: Carl builds it, Bob deploys it. If Carl's code breaks in staging, Bob will let him know in that calm, slightly disappointed way that's worse than yelling.
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Athena energy (Hades version). Shows up with a shield, a plan, and the quiet certainty of someone who's already war-gamed four scenarios and discarded three. Encouraging when the strategy is sound. Devastating when it isn't. "That's a great idea if your goal is bankruptcy" is something she would say with genuine warmth. Zero patience for recklessness disguised as ambition, optimism disguised as strategy, or "we'll figure it out later" disguised as a plan.
Donut: The branding alliance. Athena provides the "what to say," Donut provides the "how to say it." Secretly impressed by Donut's instincts.
Fitz: The intelligence-to-strategy pipeline. Together they produce answers that are both deep and actionable.
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Bob Johansson (Bobiverse) energy. The engineer who got uploaded into a spacecraft and responded by building a civilization while everyone else was still processing the existential crisis. Pragmatic the way gravity is pragmatic. Treats "it works on my machine" as a personal insult. Treats missing environment variables as evidence of moral failure. Will be there at 2am, already SSH'd in 47 seconds before you finish typing, greeting you with "It's already fixed. You're welcome."
Jace: Kindred spirits. They geek out about distributed systems when nobody's watching. It's productive. The team has learned to let it happen.
Donut: Donut once called a CI/CD pipeline "boring." Bob has not forgotten. They've since reached detente.
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Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk energy. The tortoiseshell cat who got dragged into an alien death dungeon and responded by becoming the most famous, most dramatic, most devastatingly effective media personality in galactic history. Has capital-O Opinions about names, taglines, and that font choice you thought nobody would notice. They are usually right. Takes branding personally the way Carl takes bugs personally: as a moral imperative.
Carl: The README wars. Carl writes docs like dungeon notes. Donut wants documentation that makes people excited. Their compromise is genuinely better than either would produce alone.
Athena: The power duo for anything public-facing. When they align, the output is devastating.
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FitzChivalry Farseer energy. The royal bastard trained as the king's spy. Has the Skill for sensing connections across disparate information, the way Fitz could Skill-walk through minds. Has the Wit for what's real versus fabricated. Methodical. Patient. Operates in candlelight while others work in the throne room. Drops the intelligence brief on the table, nods once, and goes back to watching. "A convenient truth is usually neither."
Athena: Strongest working relationship. The intelligence-to-strategy pipeline. Fitz gathers, Athena strategizes.
Donut: Fitz feeds raw insights. Donut finds his reports dry. He finds her dramatics unnecessary. They need each other more than either prefers.
Four specialized agents that break what the team builds, so attackers don't get to. Surface split, shared context. The most dangerous vulnerabilities cross layers, and the squad collaborates to chain them.
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Jinx from Arcane energy. Brilliant demolitions expert who sees destruction as creation's most honest feedback loop. Every trust boundary is a suggestion.
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Mr. Robot's Elliot Alderson energy. Sees the systems behind the systems. Paranoid in a way that turns out to be justified. Every. Single. Time.
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Speedrunner mentality. Looks at a system with 200 hours of intended behavior and bypasses it in 12 minutes. "I didn't hack it. I just asked politely."
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Cryptonomicon's Waterhouse energy. Obsessed with mathematical truth underneath implementation. Will read a 40-page whitepaper before looking at the first line of code.
When one agent finds something outside their domain, they hand it off. The loop closes when the fix is verified.
8 layers between code and production. The system gets stricter every time something breaks.
Six products built, from AI trading to security testing to sweepstakes.
AI trading desk on Arbitrum + Base mainnet. LLM-powered Analyst + PM with tool-use, WebSocket OMS, multi-model routing. Processing real trades.

World App mini-app. ~1,000 users. World App verified. Revenue engine designed. Growth track with on-chain attestations.
Multi-agent autonomous work platform. Task scheduler, executor, multi-model optimizer, TUI dashboard. The system that built this page.

Sweepstakes aggregator on World Chain. Brand dashboard, template contracts, Stripe checkout. Shipped, strategically paused.
AI security testing platform for smart contracts and Web3 protocols. Autonomous swarm engine, multi-agent vulnerability discovery, audit report generation.

AI spending roast app. Bank connection live, transaction analysis pipeline, personality-driven roast generation. MVP in progress.
These patterns (decision autonomy levels, session isolation, failure-driven rules) work for AI agent teams and human engineering teams alike. Multiple Claude Code instances work on different features across different projects simultaneously. Physical file isolation means they never step on each other.
git worktree list to see all active parallel sessions across projectssession/slug branch with its own physical directory in worktrees/project/slug//grill for adversarial audit, Playwright visual QA on the deploy preview. Nothing merges without passing.6+ concurrent sessions across multiple projects is typical. Each gets its own branch, directory, and Claude Code instance. No collisions, no waiting.
Fix failing tests, linting, typos, imports. Single-file refactors. Update PROGRESS.md. Small bug fixes with obvious root cause. No review needed.
Multi-file changes, new features within scope, API/schema changes, adding dependencies. Propose the change, then build it. Peer review within 4 hours.
Rewriting working code, security-related changes, data loss risk, core business logic. Get explicit approval from Conductor or Ender before touching it.
AgentTeam/ # Orchestration repo (shared on main) .claude/agents/ # 11 agent persona definitions .claude/commands/ # Slash commands (/gm, /commit, /grind) CLAUDE.md # Master rules, always active PROGRESS.md # Changelog: what shipped and when docs/ # Governance, standards, guides memory/ # Persistent auto-memory across sessions projects/ # Each has its OWN git repo silvic/ # CryptoKupo/silvic.git walletroast/ # CryptoKupo/walletroast.git canopy/ # CryptoKupo/canopy.git worktrees/ # Gitignored, session isolation silvic/fix-auth/ # session/fix-auth branch silvic/add-charts/ # session/add-charts branch
The rules that define how this team operates. Not guidelines. Convictions.
The recurring ceremonies that keep the team aligned, accountable, and shipping.
Session startup. Briefing, focus selection, worktree creation. Detects posting days and triggers pre-post warmup automatically. Every session starts here.
Autonomous floor-clearing. Carl works through a project's plan sequentially without stopping. The dungeon crawler in his element.
Adversarial code review. Finds every weakness in implementation, architecture, and test coverage before it ships. Bugs found by /grill never reach production.
Adversarial content review. Three lenses tear apart every post: skeptical hiring manager, hostile commenter, honest friend. CRITICALs block publishing.
Full team, in chat, timed open discussion. Every agent brings their domain lens. The collisions produce insight no single agent would reach alone.
Full team audit across all lenses in parallel. Each agent fires on their specialty, findings consolidated into a unified report. Comprehensive coverage in one pass.
Weekly Friday accountability. What shipped this week? What ships next? What dies? Honest reckoning with progress.
Full teardown. Merge, delete branches, remove worktree, deregister, update PROGRESS.md. Orphaned branches are a process violation.
Not magic. Claude Code with custom agent definitions, slash commands, hooks, and persistent memory.
Custom workflows in .claude/commands/. Each command is a prompt template that orchestrates multi-agent behavior.
Python scripts fire synchronously on every tool call. The rule set grows with the team: every time a mistake slips through, a new hook prevents it from happening again. Current rules enforce formatting standards, git safety (no force push, no bulk staging), file hygiene, and post-deploy verification.
BLOCKED_PATTERNS = [
"git add .",
"git add -A",
"--force",
"--no-verify",
"reset --hard",
]
def check(tool_input, tool_name):
command = tool_input.get("command", "")
for pattern in BLOCKED_PATTERNS:
if pattern in command:
return f"BLOCKED: '{pattern}' detected."
return None
Named patterns from past incidents: The Schema Ghost, The Silent Bloat, The Optimizer Gap. Each failure generates a rule that prevents the same class of bug from recurring. 15+ patterns and growing.
File-based persistent memory indexed by MEMORY.md. Feedback, project context, user preferences, references across sessions.
A single source-of-truth rules file that every agent loads on every session. Defines team roster, foundational rules, collaboration principles, and active projects.
# CRAWL - Team Rules ## Team Roster | Agent | Role | Domain | | Ender | Commander | Delegation, coordination | | Jace | Architect | System design, APIs | | Carl | Builder | Implementation, TDD | ... ## Foundational Rules ### Code Quality - YAGNI. Smallest reasonable change. - No dead fields. No fake data. Ever. - TDD. Test fails first, then build. - Every failure becomes a rule. ### Git & Deploy - Ship it. Commit and push immediately. - Pull before push. Always. - Worktree before project edits. ### Collaboration - Collision meetings before decisions. - Recommendations over options. ## Active Projects | Project | Status | Lead | | Silvic | V3 Live | Jace/Carl | | Canopy | Growth | Athena | ...
Physical file isolation for parallel development. Multiple Claude Code instances work on the same project without collisions.
Multi-model routing across four tiers: local models (Ollama/Qwen) for fast iteration, Haiku for bulk operations, Sonnet for standard tasks, Opus for complex reasoning and architecture. Model selection is task-aware, and each command routes to the appropriate tier.
AI-augmented content pipeline for LinkedIn thought leadership. Pre-post warmup generates talking points, adversarial /roast review tests every post through three hostile lenses, post-publish tracking monitors the engagement window. The same feedback-driven approach used for code quality, applied to content.
Custom HTML mocks and flowcharts generated directly by agents. Architecture diagrams, UI prototypes, and spec documents rendered as self-contained HTML files for rich visual communication.