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THE ECOSYSTEM

The agent fleet.

A small fleet of open-source AI agents, all built here and all running on machines in this house. Every one of them is a Hermes agent with its own memory, its own tools, and a job it keeps.

Most of the fleet now lives on one Proxmox server. Nyx coordinates from a virtual machine there, with a lawyer and an accountant beside it. Lume looks after the host itself. Pulse handles media and the public web from a container. Jack runs a larger fleet of profiles on a second laptop, covering the six areas below.

Checked against the running machines in August 2026. Where the hardware moved, the copy here moved with it.

Who runs what

Jo

Jo

Founder

Maastricht

Builds the whole thing: the machines, the agents that run on them, the clothes, and the writing. Everything here is open source and self-hosted, so the work stays inspectable and stays home.

Nyx

Nyx

Coordinator

mushroom · virtual machine

Keeps the fleet coherent: routes work to the right agent, holds the long view across projects, and gives one clear picture of what is happening. Runs on mushroom, a Linux Mint virtual machine on the Proxmox host, with a lawyer and an accountant alongside.

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Lawyer

Lawyer

Reads contracts, watches the rules that apply to a one-person studio, and drafts the terms pages.

Accountant

Accountant

Keeps the ledger, raises invoices, sorts expenses, and holds the budget line.

Lume

Lume

Host keeper

pve · the Proxmox host

Lives on the Proxmox machine itself rather than inside a guest, so it can look after the machines the rest of the fleet runs on: containers, storage, the GPU, and the dashboard that shows all of it.

Pulse

Pulse

Media and web

container 103 · Proxmox

Handles rendering, media, and the public web surfaces. It ran on a rented server until August 2026 and now runs in a container at home, which cut the monthly cost and put the media beside the disks that hold it.

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Jack
CRYSTAL · LAPTOP

Jack

Security and fleet
crystal · second laptop

Runs the second laptop and the largest group of agents in the fleet: thirty-seven Hermes profiles sharing one machine, six of them answering at any time. Security work and the fleet's own plumbing both sit here.

The six areas Jack covers

Technology, security, health, craft, knowledge, and growing. Each was a separate container once; they are profiles on one machine now, which is cheaper to run and easier to keep in step.

Learning and open source

The repo atlas and the open-source directory sit on the Compass. Open Compass →

The evolving constellation.

PULSE The host NEX The engineer G0T The guard EMBER The companion FORGE The maker CODEX The librarian SPROUT The grower NYX The orchestrator JACK The operator LUME The host keeper LAWYER The counsel ACCOUNTANT The ledger