Narrative Articles
The story of how we built it — decisions, tradeoffs, mistakes, and wins.
Building an AI Agent Operating System
This section documents how we built a fully autonomous AI agent operating system on a Mac Mini — from zero to 38 agents managing six life domains, 14 cron jobs, 17 MCP servers, and a cyberpunk CEO dashboard.
Everything here is real. Not demos. Not toy projects. Production agents that have been running 24/7 since April 2026.
What You’ll Find Here
Section titled “What You’ll Find Here”Architecture References
Technical deep-dives into every major subsystem: routing, CRM, cron, dashboards, and more.
The Story (Start Here)
Section titled “The Story (Start Here)”- How I Built a Personal AI Operating System — The full narrative: from a single Telegram bot to a 28-agent operating system in one week.
- From Zero to 28 Agents: Our Model Routing Strategy — How we use Kimi K2, Claude Sonnet, and Opus together to stay under $15/day.
- The Nerve Center: Building a Real-Time Agent Dashboard — A cyberpunk CEO dashboard built in Next.js with live domain data.
- Automating Life: CRM, Calendar, Canvas & Cron — How 14 cron jobs and file-based CRM replaced a dozen SaaS tools.
Architecture References
Section titled “Architecture References”- Domain Architecture — Life domains as first-class organizational units
- Model Router — Cost-optimized LLM routing with budget enforcement
- Nerve Center — Real-time CEO dashboard
- Telegram Bot — Always-on conversational interface
- CRM System — File-based contact management
- Cron Infrastructure — 14 automated jobs with watchdogs
- Canvas LMS Integration — Academic data pipeline with RAG
- EOD Compiler — Daily journal generation from agent logs
- Deck Architect — AI-powered presentation builder
- MCP Server Inventory — 17 tool servers powering the system
- OpenClaw Integration — Hybrid agent orchestration across platforms