Vibe

Vibe is a team of nine AI agents that lives on a Mac mini in my room. I’m the board. Atlas runs the team, Forge writes code, Iris designs, Sage checks anything legal or risky, Mint watches money, Hype and Echo do marketing and content, Pulse reads trends, and Nova is my assistant. Since late October Grok works alongside them on a cloud computer of its own. They plan, build and draft overnight on their own git branches, then wait for me to approve anything that goes out into the world.

What I built

• The engine. A Node service that schedules the agents, gives each one only the tools its job needs, keeps every run’s transcript, and can be paused from my phone in one tap. Sending, posting, buying or merging always needs my tap.
• VibeLite, the iPhone app. Chat with the team, see their files, approve things with a swipe. Put the phone on its side and it becomes a desk companion: Nova by voice, a Launcher that drives my Macs, and a Today page with my notes and reminders.
• VibeWork and VibeCloud, the Mac apps. The team lives in the notch: drop a file on Nova and he catches it. Hold a key to talk to him, and his replies appear as little Dynamic-Island bubbles under the menu bar.
• Magic Computer. The Mac mini’s screen on my phone, with a trackpad, touch control and a keyboard, from anywhere.

What it’s done so far

In its first three days the team ran 309 times, finished 41 of 57 tasks, wrote 378 messages and 40 files, and asked me for approval 21 times (I said yes 19 times). The first real job was shipping Biro: twelve pull requests, written by Forge and checked by Sage, which I merged in one evening.

Where it is now

By 30 October the team had run 1,560 times and finished 141 tasks. In late October the agents also stopped borrowing my browser: they now work in VibeEngine, a browser built only for them.

What I learned

The hard part isn’t making an agent do something. It’s deciding what it must never do, and making that impossible rather than discouraged. Every agent here has a short list of tools, a place it can write, and a human between it and the outside world.