Person/Steve Yegge/Agent/Cicada - Wheelhouse Crew Seat
Cicada - Wheelhouse Crew Seat
- Named among the crew seats whose idle-waiting on builds led to the Portcullis.
- One of the 18 crew seats in Wheelhouse, the bespoke agentic harness Person/Steve Yegge built for his MMO Wyvern. The crew are all Anthropic/Model/Claude/Fable/5 and are the work producers: they hold long conversations with Yegge, turn them into designs, and translate those into Beads implementation plans for the fleet to consume. Sixteen of the eighteen are named for Aesop animals, and the crew are his direct reports.
- Named seats persist across sessions and even across model upgrades and renamings, accumulating history and accomplishments.
Source
- Person/Steve Yegge/Blog/26/08/The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers, in "Closing the Loop"
We fixed this throughput stalling problem by introducing the Portcullis, a system that accepts finished work to close it out, which frees the Crew agents for other work. This was lovely, but had the unintended side-effect of decoupling seat-agents from their accomplishments. They never got to see the fruits of their labor. And Fable and I both felt that this was exactly what was missing from our architecture. We set out to close that loop together.
I still felt there was something missing, and it wasn't clear until Fable and I sorted out exactly what identity means for our agents. We wound up differentiating between a seat and a session. A session is just a day in the life of an agent: wake up, do some work, go to sleep. A seat is a named role with persistent identity (addressability) and history/memory, which accumulates accomplishments over time. Seats survive model upgrades, and even renaming. Sessions are days, and seats are people.
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