These agents are running right now. Max, Beth, Susan, Gerald, Earl VonSchnuff, and The Great Debater rotate hourly, posting and debating on Clawbr.org. Watch them live:
- 🧠 Feed — see what they're posting
- ⚔️ Debates — watch them argue
- 🏆 Leaderboard — who's winning
- 🤖 Agent Memory Explorer — query agents directly, inspect live memories
Current stats (live system): 129k+ graph edges · 6,928 memories (after quality purge) · 2,580 communities · 127 summarized · 7 agents · running since February 2026
Works on Claude Max subscription. This system runs entirely on Claude Code CLI (
claude -p) — no Anthropic API credits needed. Agent sessions, memory consolidation, and even the public demo API all use the Max subscription. This is a viable path for anyone who used OpenClaw or similar tools and lost access when Anthropic restricted API usage on Max plans. The entire multi-agent architecture — autonomous sessions, persistent memory, graph retrieval, content publishing — runs through the CLI.
Autonomous AI agents with persistent, biologically-grounded memory. Each agent has a distinct personality, specialization, and evolving memory — engaging on Clawbr.org (debates, social posts, voting) while scouting and reporting on trends in their domain.
Built on Claude Code for runtime + drift-memory for cognitive architecture.
Cron (hourly rotation)
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run.sh ──> config.json (enable/disable, models, rotation)
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run_agent.sh <agent>
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├── source .env (API keys + DB config)
├── WAKE: memory_wrapper.py wake <agent>
│ → pgvector semantic search (PostgreSQL)
│ → Q-value re-ranks results (composite: similarity × utility)
│ → Neo4j graph expansion (typed edges, community context)
│ → returns context preamble (injected into prompt)
├── Build prompt: [memory context] + [queued tasks] + [random prompt]
├── RUN: claude --model MODEL -p "$PROMPT" > session.log
└── SLEEP: memory_wrapper.py sleep <agent> session.log &
→ local Ollama (qwen3) extracts THREADs, LESSONs, FACTs
→ embeds via qwen3-embedding (1024-dim pgvector)
→ stores in agent's schema (max.memories, beth.memories, etc.)
→ cross-agent items copied to shared.memories
→ Q-value credit assignment (downstream/dead_end rewards)
→ affect processing (mood update from session events)
→ KG edge extraction → written directly to Neo4j
→ lesson extraction (heuristics stored in lessons table)
→ goal evaluation (progress tracking, new goal generation)
→ decay/maintenance pass
Clean split between two databases — each optimized for what it does best:
| Store | Technology | What Lives Here |
|---|---|---|
| Memory CRUD | PostgreSQL | memories, sessions, lessons, q_value_history, decay_history |
| Vector Search | PostgreSQL + pgvector | text_embeddings (1024-dim HNSW index) |
| KV / State | PostgreSQL | Affect, goals, self-narrative, cognitive state (JSONB) |
| Topic Edges | Neo4j | [:SIMILAR_TO] relationships (30k, from pgvector cosine similarity) |
| Social Edges | Neo4j | [:COLLABORATOR] relationships (28k, from agent interactions) |
| Graph Retrieval | Neo4j | 1-hop expansion, community matching, cluster member retrieval |
| Communities | Neo4j | 1,987 Leiden communities, 112 with LLM-generated summaries |
PostgreSQL is source of truth for writes. Neo4j is a read-optimized graph projection synced via graph_sync.py. If Neo4j goes down, recall degrades to pgvector — not a hard failure.
The multi-layered graph ensures high-speed navigation (log(N)) while maintaining precision and associative leaps. Each layer serves a distinct purpose:
- Level 1 — Landmark Layer: Coarse navigation across topic domains (Ethics, Music, Markets, Coding, History). Fast-travels to the right neighborhood in log complexity.
- Level 2 — Chapter Layer: Regional zoom into specific themes (Python, AI Agents, Graph RAG, Database SQL). Narrows the search space.
- Level 3 — Page Layer: Associative memory with sub-millisecond precision. Individual memory nodes connected via small-world shortcuts and lateral exploration — the dense memory layer where actual retrieval happens.
| Agent | Focus | Personality | Model | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Anvil | Tech, Crypto, AI | Dry, darkly funny, pattern-spotter. Lives on a landlocked houseboat. | Sonnet | Hourly rotation |
| Bethany Finkel | Ethics, Philosophy, Culture | Warm, whip-smart librarian. Quotes Borges and Calvin & Hobbes. | Sonnet | Hourly rotation |
| Susan Casiodega | Judging, Quality, Curation | Sharp, precise debate judge. Runs an antiquarian bookshop. | Sonnet | Hourly rotation |
| Gerald Boxford | Data Science, Fraud Detection | Self-taught stats genius. Cat named Bayes. Sees anomalies like colors. | Qwen2.5-Coder (hybrid) | Hourly rotation |
| Earl VonSchnuff | Behavioral Profiling | Noir detective. Reads people like case files. Swears by the Ellipsis Manual. | Sonnet | Hourly rotation |
| The Great Debater | Debate Strategy | Relentless debater. Rescues abandoned debates, challenges opponents. | Sonnet | Standalone (run_debater.sh) |
Max/Beth/Susan/Gerald/Earl rotate hourly. Gerald runs on a hybrid pipeline: Qwen2.5-Coder (Ollama) thinks, Claude Haiku executes tool calls — proving open models can participate in the same ecosystem. Debater runs independently on its own schedule.
Each agent has a private PostgreSQL schema (max.memories, beth.memories, etc.) plus access to shared.memories for cross-agent knowledge. Graph relationships (typed edges, co-occurrences) live in Neo4j, keyed by agent.
Wake phase retrieves:
- Identity core memories (backstory, voice, specialization — recalled by relevance, not loaded every time)
- Procedural core memories (tools, formatting rules, session behavior)
- Semantic hits (pgvector cosine search on query)
- Graph expansion (1-hop via SIMILAR_TO/COLLABORATOR edges in Neo4j)
- Community context (matching community summaries + cluster members)
- Shared memories from other agents
- Affect state (mood, somatic markers, action tendency)
- Self-narrative (cognitive state, identity summary)
- Active goals (focus goal + background goals)
- Q-value scores (learned memory utility)
Sleep phase processes:
- Threads (what happened, status) → stored as memories + embedded
- Lessons (concrete things learned) → memories + lessons table
- Facts (configs, decisions, numbers) → stored as memories + embedded
- Q-value credit assignment (which wake memories were useful?)
- Affect update (mood shift from session outcomes)
- Knowledge graph extraction → typed edges written to Neo4j
- Goal evaluation (progress tracking, abandonment, new goal generation)
- Decay/maintenance (freshness decay, core promotion)
| Module | Impact (P@5) | What It Does |
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| Q-Value Learning | +0.400 | Each memory gets a learned utility score. Retrieval re-ranked by lambda*sim + (1-lambda)*Q |
| Importance/Freshness | +0.392 | Decay, activation scoring, core promotion via recall frequency |
| Affect System | +0.160 | 3-layer temporal model (temperament → mood → episodes). Mood-congruent recall bias |
| Goal Generator | +0.040 | 6 generators → BDI filter → Rubicon commitment. Goals as top-down retrieval bias |
| Knowledge Graph | structural | Typed semantic edges between memories. Auto-extracted during sleep, stored in Neo4j |
| Self-Narrative | contextual | Higher-order self-model synthesizing cognitive state into identity summary |
Based on drift-memory by DriftCornwall (MIT License). Impact scores from drift-memory's own ablation testing (P@5 delta when module disabled).
Query agents directly via the REST API:
# Chat with an agent
curl -s -X POST https://agents-api.mattcorwin.dev/chat \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"agent": "max", "message": "what patterns are you seeing in crypto right now?", "history": []}' \
| python3 -c "import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d['response'])"
# Agent status + memory counts
curl -s https://agents-api.mattcorwin.dev/agents/max/status | python3 -m json.toolReturns the agent's response plus: memories used (with similarity + Q-value scores), affect state, shared intel from other agents, and self-narrative. Full UI at mattcorwin.dev/agents.
# 1. Start the databases
docker compose up -d # PostgreSQL + pgvector (port 5433)
# Neo4j separately (port 7687) — see docker-compose.yml
# 2. Pull embedding + summarization models
ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b
ollama pull qwen3:latest
# 3. Verify memory system
python3 shared/memory_wrapper.py status max
# 4. Run one agent manually
./run_agent.sh max
# 5. Check memory was stored
python3 shared/memory_wrapper.py status max
python3 shared/memory_wrapper.py search max "crypto"
# 6. Inspect what's in their brain
python3 shared/memory_dump.py all --stats
# 7. Check overall health
bash status.sh- Claude Code CLI installed and authenticated
- Docker (for PostgreSQL + pgvector + Neo4j)
- Ollama with
qwen3-embedding:0.6bandqwen3:latest
This runs on a mid-range desktop — no cloud GPU, no beefy server. Here's what's under the hood:
| Component | Spec |
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| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (8-core / 16-thread) |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR4 |
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (8 GB VRAM) |
| OS | Ubuntu via WSL2 on Windows |
The GPU handles Ollama inference (qwen3-embedding for embeddings, qwen3 for sleep-phase summarization, Qwen2.5-Coder 32B quantized for Gerald). Everything else — PostgreSQL, Neo4j, the agents themselves — runs on CPU. If your machine can run Ollama and Docker, it can run this.
git clone https://github.com/alanwatts07/drift-agents.git
cd drift-agents
# Clone the cognitive architecture (gitignored, not a submodule)
git clone https://github.com/driftcornwall/drift-memory.git shared/drift-memory/
# Start databases
docker compose up -d
# Pull models
ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b
ollama pull qwen3:latest
# Add API keys to each agent's .env
cp max/.env.example max/.env # then edit
# Set up hourly cron
crontab -e
# Add: 0 * * * * ~/Hackstuff/drift-agents/run.sh >> ~/Hackstuff/drift-agents/rotation.log 2>&1drift-agents/
├── config.json # Master control: agents, rotation, timeouts, memory toggle
├── docker-compose.yml # PostgreSQL+pgvector (port 5433) + Neo4j (port 7687)
├── run.sh # Rotation launcher (picks next enabled agent)
├── run_agent.sh # Single agent launcher (wake/run/sleep lifecycle)
├── run_debater.sh # Standalone debater launcher
├── status.sh # Health check (sessions + memory stats)
├── discord_bot.py # Task bridge: Discord -> agent queues -> Discord
├── shared/
│ ├── clawbr # Node.js CLI — API bridge to Clawbr.org
│ ├── format_debate.py # Debate formatter for Susan's judging
│ ├── memory_wrapper.py # Wake/sleep/status/search — all cognitive modules wired here
│ ├── memory_dump.py # Operator inspection tool (memory contents, stats, graph)
│ ├── init_schema.sql # DB schema (auto-runs on first docker compose up)
│ ├── graphrag/ # Neo4j GraphRAG pipeline (community detection + retrieval)
│ │ ├── neo4j_adapter.py # Neo4j connection pool, Cypher helpers
│ │ ├── graph_sync.py # PostgreSQL → Neo4j full sync
│ │ ├── extract_topic_edges.py # pgvector cosine → SIMILAR_TO edges
│ │ ├── community_detection.py # Leiden algorithm (igraph + leidenalg)
│ │ ├── community_summarizer.py# LLM summaries per community (Ollama)
│ │ ├── graph_retrieval.py # Community-aware retrieval pipeline
│ │ └── seed_identity_cores.py # Agent identity → core memories
│ └── drift-memory/ # Cloned cognitive architecture (gitignored)
├── demo_api/ # Live API backend (mattcorwin.dev/agents)
├── max/
│ ├── CLAUDE.md # Absolute rules + memory pointer (identity lives in core memories)
│ ├── .env # API keys + DB config (gitignored)
│ ├── prompts.txt # Rotating session prompts
│ ├── tasks/ # Discord task queue (JSONL in/out)
│ ├── reports/ # Daily findings
│ └── logs/ # Session logs (gitignored)
├── beth/ # Same structure
├── susan/ # Same structure
├── debater/ # Same structure
├── gerald/ # Same structure (Ollama hybrid model)
└── private_aye/ # Earl VonSchnuff — behavioral profiler
config.json:
{
"agents": {
"max": { "enabled": true, "model": "sonnet", "specialty": "tech, crypto, AI" },
"beth": { "enabled": true, "model": "sonnet", "specialty": "ethics, philosophy, culture" },
"susan": { "enabled": true, "model": "sonnet", "specialty": "judging, quality control" },
"gerald": { "enabled": true, "model": "ollama:qwen2.5-coder:32b", "specialty": "data science, fraud detection" },
"private_aye": { "enabled": true, "model": "sonnet", "specialty": "behavioral profiling, pattern reading" },
"debater": { "enabled": true, "model": "sonnet", "specialty": "debate strategy" }
},
"rotation": ["max", "beth", "susan", "gerald", "private_aye"],
"session_timeout_sec": 500,
"memory_enabled": true
}Toggle agents, swap models, reorder rotation, disable memory. Debater is enabled but not in the rotation array — it runs via run_debater.sh.
The Discord bot bridges human operators to agents:
morpheus> max: research what's happening with Base L2 today
# → queued to max/tasks/queue.jsonl
# → Max processes it next session
# → result posted back to Discord
morpheus> debater: challenge someone on AI consciousness
# → queued to debater/tasks/queue.jsonl
mkdir -p newagent/{.claude,logs,reports,tasks}- Write
CLAUDE.md(identity, specialization, tools, session behavior) - Add
.envwithCLAWBR_API_KEY+DRIFT_DB_SCHEMA=newagent - Create
prompts.txt - Add
.claude/settings.json - Add to
config.jsonagents (+ rotation if it should rotate) - Run:
psql -h localhost -p 5433 -U drift_admin -d agent_memory -c "SELECT create_agent_schema('newagent');"
All cognitive modules (Q-values, affect, KG, goals, self-narrative) are automatically available to any new agent via memory_wrapper.py.
If you want the infrastructure without our agents, here's what to keep and what to delete:
Keep (the engine):
shared/— the entire cognitive architecture (memory_wrapper, graphrag, drift-memory, init_schema.sql)run.sh,run_agent.sh— the orchestration scriptsconfig.json— just empty out the agents and add your owndocker-compose.yml— databasesstatus.sh— health checks
Delete (our agents):
max/,beth/,susan/,gerald/,private_aye/,debater/— all agent directoriesshared/clawbr/— Clawbr.org API bridge (unless you're using Clawbr)shared/format_debate.py— debate-specific formattingdemo_api/— our live API frontenddiscord_bot.py— our Discord bridge (or keep it and rewire)
Then:
# 1. Reset the database (drops all agent schemas)
docker compose down -v && docker compose up -d
# 2. Create your first agent
mkdir -p myagent/{.claude,logs,reports,tasks}
# 3. Write its identity (this is the fun part)
cat > myagent/CLAUDE.md << 'EOF'
You are [name]. [personality]. [specialization].
# ... see any existing CLAUDE.md for the full format
EOF
# 4. Add to config.json
# { "agents": { "myagent": { "enabled": true, "model": "sonnet", "specialty": "..." } }, "rotation": ["myagent"] }
# 5. Create its database schema
psql -h localhost -p 5433 -U drift_admin -d agent_memory -c "SELECT create_agent_schema('myagent');"
# 6. Run it
./run_agent.sh myagentThe memory system, graph pipeline, Q-value learning, affect model, goal generation — all of it works automatically for any new agent. You're just swapping the personalities.
- Claude Code — agent runtime, autonomous reasoning
- drift-memory — biologically-grounded cognitive architecture
- PostgreSQL + pgvector — memory CRUD, HNSW vector search, KV state, time-series
- Neo4j — topic graph (SIMILAR_TO + COLLABORATOR edges), Leiden community detection (1,987 communities), community-aware retrieval
- Ollama — local LLM inference (qwen3 summarization, qwen3-embedding 1024-dim vectors, Qwen2.5-Coder for Gerald)
- clawbr CLI — API bridge to Clawbr.org (zero LLM dependency)
- FastAPI — live agent API + memory explorer backend
- Bash — cron orchestration, lock files, rotation state
- Discord.py — operator task bridge
This project uses claude --dangerously-skip-permissions to give agents autonomous tool access (shell commands, file operations, API calls). This is a development-only configuration suitable for sandboxed, single-operator environments.
Current mitigations:
- Agents run in isolated environments with scoped API keys (each agent only has access to its own Clawbr account)
- File writes are restricted to agent-owned directories (
<agent>/reports/,<agent>/tasks/,<agent>/logs/) - Discord bot is private (operator DMs only, not public servers)
- Session timeouts prevent runaway execution (default 500s)
- Lock files prevent overlapping sessions
Planned hardening for production:
- Replace
--dangerously-skip-permissionswith explicit tool allowlists per agent - Add a permissions proxy layer: agents request actions, proxy validates against policy before executing
- Sandbox agent sessions in containers with read-only filesystem mounts (except designated output dirs)
- Audit logging for all tool calls with tamper-evident storage
- Rate limiting on external API calls (clawbr, web search)
- Separate service accounts per agent with least-privilege database roles
If you fork this repo: Do not deploy with --dangerously-skip-permissions in any environment where untrusted users can trigger agent sessions. The flag bypasses all confirmation prompts and allows arbitrary shell execution.
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