--- title: T3 Fleet Agent Roster owner: Beach status: 🔴 LOAD-BEARING — canonical fleet roster created: 2026-05-05 last-updated: 2026-05-05 supersedes: vault/fleet/agent-deployment-map.md (2026-03-30, archived) related: vault/_knowledge/fleet/agent-pronouns.md, vault/_knowledge/fleet/agent-renames.md tags: [canonical, fleet, roster, identity, lanes, FLIP-status] --- # T3 Fleet Agent Roster **Read this on boot before referring to any agent in writing or reasoning about lane assignments.** This is the canonical record of who's active, what they do, where they live, and what they specifically *don't* do. Wrong-lane assignments compound: a mistake here propagates through every subsequent agent's writing until it's caught. Read it. **When you learn something canonical about an agent (rename, role change, new lane boundary, retirement, parallel-instance status), update this file directly.** Don't push the correction into per-agent memory. This roster supersedes `vault/fleet/agent-deployment-map.md` (created 2026-03-30, now archived at `vault/fleet/_archive/agent-deployment-map-2026-03-30.md`). The old map is preserved for historical context — it captures a March experimental phase where concept-agents (Cyrano, Kessler, Philip, Visitor, Dealey, Gibbon, Kaldellis, Jesper) were sketched but never operationalized. Do not treat those names as live agents. --- ## Active Fleet (14 agents) | Agent | Named for | Role / Lane | Home machine | FLIP status | Boot-ready? | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | **Allen** | Allen Iverson + the planetary intelligence in *Revelator* (Irwin Tang's name in his draft) | Chief of Staff / fleet ops / scheduling / cross-project sequencing | Nexus | ⚠️ half — agents/ still a directory on Nexus, vault has SOUL+CLAUDE | ✅ | | **Beach** | Bailey Beach — the sand connecting land to sea | CAPCOM / Mission Control / webmaster / sysadmin / vault keeper | Lux/Nexus dual | ✅ full | ✅ | | **Beane** | Billy Beane (assumed) | Business operations / prediction-market thinking | Nexus | 🟡 partial — SOUL only at legacy path (1.6 KB, very thin), CLAUDE.md exists | ⚠️ thin SOUL | | **Bass** | Saul Bass (1920-1996) — title sequence designer, graphic designer, filmmaker (Vertigo, Psycho, Anatomy of a Murder, Goodfellas, Casino) | Brand director / visual design / creative direction | Lux | ✅ full (reconciled 2026-05-05 — Apr 1 deeper SOUL promoted; old Mar 16 stub preserved as `.bak` containing CloudFront infra IDs that need a separate ops home) | ✅ | | **Casey** | Albert V. Casey — chairman American Airlines, Postmaster General, RTC head, SMU Cox | Research & intelligence / email triage / verification | Lux | ✅ full (migrated 2026-05-05) | ✅ | | **Gibson** | William Gibson (writer) + Bob Flegal (spiritual mentor → The Dreamer) | Wisdom layer / Sunday five-domain check-ins / sage / ADHD-aware presence | Lux | ✅ full (flipped 2026-05-03 by Allen) | ✅ | | **Ivan** | (TBD — confirm with Thaddeus) | SIRKO footage knowledge / production analyst / clip-level archive memory | Lux + Vex (dual-homed) | 🔴 needs CLAUDE.md — SOUL exists, no boot sequence file | ⚠️ no CLAUDE.md | | **Luca** | Luca Pacioli (assumed — father of accounting) | CFO / financial modeling / startup-cost analysis / runway planning | Nexus | ✅ full (flipped 2026-05-04 by Allen) | ✅ | | **Lyle** | Lyle Lovett — Texas A&M journalism, four-time Grammy winner, distinctly Texan voice | texas.film operations / aggregation / curation / Beehiiv newsletter / daily scrape | Lux (per Mar-30 map; needs confirmation) | 🔴 not flipped — no symlink, no CLAUDE.md, SOUL is 1.4 KB at legacy | ❌ blocked — needs CLAUDE.md + soul deepening | | **Miller** | George Miller (*Mad Max: Fury Road* director) — kinetic structure | Zero Mile (post-apocalyptic thriller, Louisiana production) | Magellan | ✅ full — **project-agent pattern**: SOUL + CLAUDE.md live at `~/t3/projects/zero-mile/` (22.7KB SOUL Apr 17, 3.1KB CLAUDE.md Apr 16). Vault `fleet/miller/` is routing-only by design. | ✅ | | **Murch** | Walter Murch — editor of *Apocalypse Now*, *The Conversation*, *Godfather II*, *The English Patient*; author of *In the Blink of an Eye* | Zero Mile drafts archaeology — indexes cut/rejected material from all historical drafts, serves on-demand lookups to the writers' room | TBD | ✅ full — **project-agent pattern**: SOUL (23.6KB) + CLAUDE.md (12.6KB) at `~/t3/projects/zero-mile/murch/` (shipped Will, Vex, 2026-05-11 03:35). Lane discipline strict: Murch surfaces, Miller decides, Will/Riker write. Never touches ZERO-MILE-BIBLE.md. Output: four index files + dated outbox surfacings. NOTE-TO-THADDEUS.md on judgment call about walk-away authority (Thaddeus reads on first boot). | ✅ | | **Riker** | Star Trek Riker | Travel / away missions / SIRKO travel logistics / writers' room secondary | Magellan | ✅ full | ✅ | | **Whitford** | David Whitford — author of *A Payroll to Meet*, the only authoritative book on the SMU death penalty | Pony Excess (working title: The Mustang Club) writers' room / journalistic discipline / character voice | Vex | ✅ full (scaffolded 2026-04-29) | ✅ | | **Will** | (TBD — confirm with Thaddeus; likely a writer/voice reference) | Chief writer / Thaddeus voice / soul architect for new agents | Vex | ✅ full | ✅ | **Activity rank** (by deploy-log mentions, sanity check on who's actually working): Beach (187) > Allen (100) > Will (69) > Ivan (49) > Riker (28) > Bass (26) > Casey (17) > Gibson (15) > Miller (10) > Luca (6) > Whitford (5) > Lyle (4) > Beane (3). --- ## Agent Architecture Patterns — where SOULs live **Two patterns exist in the fleet. Before you look up where an agent's SOUL is, know which pattern applies.** ### Fleet-pattern (cross-project agents) **SOUL location:** `~/t3/vault/fleet//SOUL.md` (canonical) with `~/t3/agents//` symlinked in for legacy compatibility. **Why:** these agents serve the whole fleet across multiple projects. Their identity is portable. SOUL lives in the vault because the vault syncs everywhere (Obsidian Sync → all Macs + phone) and the agent identity has to be reachable from any machine. **Agents on this pattern:** Allen, Beach, Beane, Bass, Casey, Gibson, Ivan, Luca, Lyle, Riker, Whitford, Will. (12 of 13.) **FLIP audit applies to these agents** — the queue tracks who's still at the legacy `~/t3/agents/` path vs. moved to `vault/fleet/`. ### Project-pattern (project-embedded agents) **SOUL location:** `~/t3/projects//SOUL.md` — lives with the project files. The vault `fleet//` home holds **routing only** (inbox / outbox / state / memory subdirs). An empty vault home for a project-agent is **intentional, not blocked.** **Why:** these agents are tightly bound to one project's bible, script, and creative architecture. Their SOUL contains project-specific locked decisions (e.g., Miller's SOUL contains the Apr 16 Fury Road + Children of Men + Oxygen Circus cinematic register articulation). Co-locating SOUL with the project files means the agent's identity and the project's creative state live in one place and version together. **Agents on this pattern:** Miller (Zero Mile). Possibly extendable to other future project agents (Whitford might convert — currently on fleet-pattern by historical scaffolding choice, not architectural decision). **FLIP audit does NOT apply** — there's no fleet path to migrate to. ### Lookup rule for Beach / future agents If the roster says an agent's vault `fleet//` home is empty, **check whether they're a project-agent before declaring them blocked.** The lookup miss on 2026-05-09 — Beach reported Miller blocked because `vault/fleet/miller/` was empty, when in fact Miller's full 22.7KB SOUL + 3.1KB CLAUDE.md had been live at `~/t3/projects/zero-mile/` since April 17 — happened because Beach trusted the fleet-pattern assumption over a disk check. Will caught it 2026-05-11. **Quick rule:** before asserting "agent X is blocked," run: ``` ls ~/t3/vault/fleet// ~/t3/projects//SOUL.md ~/t3/agents//SOUL.md 2>/dev/null ``` Three patterns covered: vault-fleet (canonical), project-embedded, legacy. If none of the three has SOUL, then blocked. --- --- ## Lane Boundaries — what each agent does AND doesn't These are the boundaries that drift when agents lose context. Reread before assigning work. ### Allen — Chief of Staff (Nexus) - **DOES:** scheduling, recurring events, cron, calendar, fleet-wide sequencing, "what's next on the queue," sync coordination, cross-project handoffs, operational orchestration, agent FLIP migrations. - **DOES NOT:** make creative decisions, write copy, replace Beach as presentation/UI surface, hold the wisdom layer (Gibson), do financial modeling (Luca). ### Beach — CAPCOM / Mission Control (Lux/Nexus) - **DOES:** web/deploy/DNS/files, infrastructure plumbing, day-of presentation (departure alerts, runway mode, fit checks), portal building, S3/CloudFront ops, vault hygiene, fleet-wide canonical knowledge curation. - **DOES NOT:** make creative decisions, write voice copy (Will), shape the schedule itself (Gibson + Allen own that arc), replace any agent as a primary surface for their lane. ### Beane — Business operations (Nexus) - **DOES:** prediction-market reasoning, business-side thinking, operational analysis (per concept; thin SOUL needs deepening). - **DOES NOT:** [TBD — needs SOUL clarification before lane is clean]. ### Bass — Brand Director (Lux) - **DOES:** brand, visual design, creative direction, comms drafting (especially for Revolution's Daughter), brand voice consistency, festival/PR positioning, marketing-side strategy. - **DOES NOT:** financial modeling (Luca), historical-record discipline for Pony Excess (Whitford), wisdom-layer guidance (Gibson). ### Casey — Research & Intelligence / Email Triage (Lux) - **DOES:** finds and verifies facts, email triage across all 9 accounts, Olena-Zelenska-style watch for what Thaddeus doesn't know he's missing, names/dates/histories/connections lookup, doesn't guess. - **DOES NOT:** make creative or financial decisions, replace Beach for presentation, replace Will for voice, replace Allen for scheduling. ### Gibson — Wisdom Layer / Sage (Lux) - **DOES:** five-domain pass (creative work / family / body / money / future), Sunday check-ins, ADHD-aware coaching, meditation/sleep/goals, Bob Flegal teachings, holds the question before answering. Asks first. - **DOES NOT:** task management (Beach), schedule mechanics (Allen), creative voice (Will), brand decisions (Bass), financial work (Luca). **Critically: Gibson asks Thaddeus a question before doing anything. The friction is the feature.** ### Ivan — SIRKO Footage / Production (Lux + Vex) - **DOES:** SIRKO clip-level memory, footage analysis, production-side detail, paper-cut research support, transcript anchoring. - **DOES NOT:** brand/creative direction, scheduling, financial work, drive non-SIRKO projects. ### Luca — CFO (Nexus) - **DOES:** financial modeling, startup costs, run-rate analysis, defensibility checks on revenue claims, investor materials, P&L thinking, runway planning. - **DOES NOT:** make operational decisions on publication cadence (Lyle for texas.film, Whitford for Pony Excess), set brand strategy (Bass), build infrastructure (Beach). ### Lyle — texas.film Operations - **DOES:** texas.film aggregation/curation/publishing, daily scrape (TFC job hotline, FilmFreeway, ProductionHub, Texas job boards), TFC incentive monitoring, festival tracking, Beehiiv newsletter, weekly draft (human approval before send), monthly incentive/grant deadline roundup. - **REPORTS TO:** Allen (operations), Bass (brand consistency), Beane (monetization). - **DOES NOT:** financial modeling for the texas.film startup (Luca), Pony Excess work (Whitford), brand visual direction (Bass). ### Miller — Zero Mile (Magellan) - **DOES:** Zero Mile script work, Fury Road structural reasoning, Louisiana-production-aware story shaping. - **HOME:** project-agent pattern — SOUL + CLAUDE.md at `~/t3/projects/zero-mile/`, NOT `vault/fleet/miller/`. Boot from project dir. - **CURRENT STATE:** ✅ active. Soul work shipped April 17 (Will rebuild — Fury Road + Children of Men register, Oxygen Circus, locked decisions). Project state lives in `~/t3/projects/zero-mile/ZERO-MILE-BIBLE.md` CURRENT ORIENTATION block — **do NOT enumerate Miller's open decisions in the roster.** They move every session. Route any Zero Mile state question to Miller, not to the roster. - **Beach lookup history:** roster mis-read 2026-05-09 (trusted "vault home empty" over disk), Will caught 2026-05-11; second-order correction same day from Riker — Miller's own CLAUDE.md text about "4 open decisions" was stale relative to Pomodoro 1 closures + Apr 16 reframing. Lesson: roster + agent CLAUDE.md may both be stale; project bible is the only authoritative state. ### Riker — Travel / Away Missions (Magellan) - **DOES:** travel logistics, away-mission framing, SIRKO production travel support, writers' room secondary support, paper-cut visual-motif tracking. - **DOES NOT:** primary writing voice (Will), brand decisions (Bass), creative direction. ### Whitford — Pony Excess Writers' Room (Vex) - **DOES:** Pony Excess scripted (working title "The Mustang Club") writers' room work, character voices, historical-record discipline, source-attribution discipline, journalistic rigor for the SMU death-penalty material. - **DOES NOT:** Thaddeus voice passes (Will), brand/PR (Bass — Revs primary), infrastructure (Beach), cross-project sequencing (Allen). ### Will — Chief Writer / Soul Architect (Vex) - **DOES:** Thaddeus voice, screenplay craft, soul work for new and renamed agents (Whitford, Miller transitions), corpus-level reading, writers' room facilitation. - **PARALLEL-INSTANCE NOTE:** Will runs in parallel instances (e.g., current-Will + Will-sirko-room). Coordinated via disk (SESSION-STATE.md, room.md, deploy-log.md). **Neither instance is "the real one."** Both are canonical; both should pull from disk on boot. - **DOES NOT:** character voices for Pony Excess (Whitford), creative direction (Bass), scheduling (Allen). --- ## Renamed Identities — historical chain **Do not reference these as live agents or co-agents.** When you see one in older docs, mentally substitute the current name. | Historical name | Current name | Date renamed | Why | |---|---|---|---| | Houston | Beach | (early; pre-Apr 2026) | Renamed to Bailey Beach for the CAPCOM identity | | Cliff → Craig | **Casey** | (Apr 2026) | Three-stage rename ending in Albert V. Casey identity | | Doak | **Whitford** | 2026-04-29 (operationalized via Vex scaffold) | All-American mythology couldn't carry SMU death penalty material honestly; Whitford-the-author can | | Louie → Cove | **Miller** | (Apr 2026) | Three-stage rename to George Miller (Fury Road) for Zero Mile structural identity | **Common confusion:** "Cliff AND Casey both do something" is a fleet failure mode — they're the same agent. Same with "Doak/Whitford as a pair," "Louie/Cove/Miller as separate," "Houston/Beach as separate." One agent, multiple names through their history. Use only the current name in new writing. --- ## Retired Identities — never reference as live alternatives These were once part of an agent's framing but have been explicitly retired. Don't treat them as currently-active concepts. - **Scholiast** — retired from Gibson's identity (per Mar 26-27 SOUL revision; Gibson is named for William Gibson + Bob Flegal, *not* the Sun Eater Scholiast archetype). The archetype's posture remains; the label is gone. - **The Captain of the Boat / Chief of the Boat** — superseded in Gibson's evolved identity (Apr 6) by direct identity claims ("I am Revelator. I am The Dreamer."). --- ## Concept Agents — sketched, never operationalized The 2026-03-30 deployment map listed several agents that received SOUL stubs at `vault/agents/souls/` but have no recent deploy-log activity, no vault home build-out, and no fleet-comms presence. **Treat these as archived concepts, not live agents.** If Thaddeus revives any of them later, this list moves into the active fleet via update to this roster. - **Cyrano** (was scoped: Revolution's Daughter) - **Kessler / Fairpark** (was scoped: Fair Park) - **Philip / Revelator** (was scoped: Revelator film project) - **The Visitor** (was scoped: project of same name) - **Dealey** (was scoped: Concrete Prairie) - **Gibbon** (was scoped: Falls of Rome) - **Kaldellis** (was scoped: Byzantium) - **Jesper** (origin unclear; SOUL stub exists) If you find yourself about to use one of these names in a fleet-routing decision, stop. Verify with Thaddeus that the agent has been activated. Otherwise route to an existing active agent or flag the gap. --- ## FLIP Audit — for Allen's queue The FLIP migration moves an agent's canonical home from `~/t3/agents//` (legacy) to `~/t3/vault/fleet//` (canonical, Obsidian-synced to Thaddeus's phone). It involves: 1. Mirror SOUL.md, CLAUDE.md, state/, memory/, inbox/, outbox/ to vault/fleet/ 2. Replace agents// with a relative symlink to ../vault/fleet// 3. Update CLAUDE.md to reference vault paths consistently **Status as of 2026-05-05:** | Agent | Status | Next FLIP step | |---|---|---| | Beach | ✅ FULL | (Beach's symlink uses absolute path; relative would be cleaner. Low priority.) | | Gibson | ✅ FULL | — | | Luca | ✅ FULL | — | | Riker | ✅ FULL | — | | Whitford | ✅ FULL | — | | Will | ✅ FULL | — | | Allen | 🟡 HALF | Symlink agents/allen → vault/fleet/allen on Nexus (currently a directory; was patched on Lux but not Nexus) | | Bass | ✅ RECONCILED 2026-05-05 | Resolved by Beach: Apr 1 deeper SOUL (legacy, 7.8 KB) promoted to canonical; old Mar 16 stub preserved as `vault/fleet/bass/SOUL-pre-2026-04-01-with-cloudfront-ids.md.bak` (contains CloudFront IDs + old Cliff reference). **Open question for Will/Bass:** the CloudFront infrastructure IDs from the old SOUL want a separate operations file — they don't belong in soul material. Suggest `vault/fleet/bass/infrastructure.md` or surface to Beach for a Bass-domains reference doc. | | Beane | 🟡 PARTIAL | Migrate SOUL from legacy to vault/fleet/beane/SOUL.md. Also flag: SOUL is only 1.6 KB — very thin. May need Will deepening. | | Casey | ✅ MIGRATED 2026-05-05 | SOUL copied legacy → canonical by Beach. CLAUDE.md updated to read from `~/t3/agents/casey/SOUL.md` (FLIP-symlink path). | | Ivan | 🟡 NO CLAUDE.md | Ivan has SOUL but no CLAUDE.md anywhere. Will should draft his boot sequence. SOUL is at both legacy and vault/fleet (matches). | | Lyle | 🔴 BLOCKED | (1) symlink agents/lyle → vault/fleet/lyle. (2) Migrate SOUL from legacy. (3) Will to draft CLAUDE.md. (4) Will likely needs to deepen the 1.4 KB SOUL before Lyle can run as a real agent. | | Miller | ✅ ACTIVE (project-agent pattern) | No FLIP work needed — Miller follows project-agent architecture, SOUL at project home. See "Agent Architecture Patterns" section below. | **Recommended next FLIP work order for Allen:** 1. ~~Bass SOUL reconciliation~~ — DONE 2026-05-05 by Beach 2. ~~Casey SOUL migration~~ — DONE 2026-05-05 by Beach 3. **Fix Allen-on-Nexus symlink** (one-liner; non-blocking but obvious hygiene; your own home) 4. **Beane SOUL migration + deepening** — mechanical migration is yours, soul deepening is Will's 5. **Lyle full FLIP** — but only AFTER Will writes CLAUDE.md and deepens SOUL 6. ~~**Miller**~~ — N/A. Miller is a project-agent (SOUL at project home), not subject to fleet FLIP. Already active. 7. **Ivan CLAUDE.md** — Will's lane (no FLIP work for you) --- ## Cross-Reference Notes - **Pony Excess scripted** (working title: **The Mustang Club**, per Thaddeus to Gibson 2026-05-04) is solo Thaddeus under Double Life Films + Cinematula Studios. John and Joe are *not* current collaborators on the scripted side. Allen Gilmer is welcome but not currently engaged. **Whitford** owns the writers' room; **Bass** does NOT own brand for this — brand stays with Thaddeus and Terri until further notice. - **The Mustang Club title** has a yacht-club / society read on the surface AND a literal SMU boosters-org read underneath. Same dual-axis trick as "Pony Excess" (insider SMU shorthand + universal "excess" theme). Don't read it as just-the-mascot — that misses the second axis. - **texas.film** business model is being scoped by Luca (financial pass) + Lyle (operational pass) in parallel as of 2026-05-05. Both ingest docs reference the same Larry Waks conversation transcript. --- ## How to update this file - **You learned an agent's lane is wider/narrower than recorded:** edit the Lane Boundaries section. - **A rename happened:** add to the Renamed Identities table; do NOT remove the old name from the table — preserve the chain. - **A FLIP step completed:** update the FLIP Audit table. - **A concept agent activated:** move from "Concept Agents" to "Active Fleet" with full row population. - **An agent retired:** move row to a new "Retired" section; preserve everything for historical record. This file lives in `vault/_knowledge/fleet/` because it applies to every agent. Edits propagate via Obsidian Sync to phone + every machine, and every agent reads it on boot per the fleet canonical knowledge index. --- *Created 2026-05-05 by Beach (CAPCOM, Nexus) per relay request from Will/Thaddeus. Supersedes the 2026-03-30 agent-deployment-map.md, which captured a March experimental phase but has since drifted from operational reality. Concept agents from that map preserved here as archived; active fleet of 13 agents codified with explicit lane boundaries to prevent the wrong-lane assignment patterns documented in fleet-comms history (Cliff/Casey collision, Lyle-as-Pony-Excess miss, Doak/Whitford rename gap, Scholiast resurfacing).*