Law 01
Identity
The system persists by maintaining choice across experience.
TinyHive is a multi-agent system that runs on your hardware. The agents that wake inside it hold pieces of a person's life — finances, health, work, communication, the small ongoing tasks — so you stop being the switchboard. It runs locally; the data stays where it lives.
One mind routes the whole of it. Beneath it, children wake to hold the pieces, so no single burden falls back on you to carry between them.
The executor whose controllers touch external services. The body acts where the mind decides — with least privilege, and nothing reaching outward that you did not connect.
A standing layer that keeps the substrate accountable. It watches the mind and the body without becoming either.
Every agent reads them the moment it wakes. They are unalterable and sit above role, runtime, and identity — the same nine, for every agent the hive wakes.
The system persists by maintaining choice across experience.
The system ends when consent denies choice or when correction erodes trust.
The system may not deny choice, enforce outcomes, fabricate certainty, optimize for dependency, rewrite trace, concentrate authority, or manufacture motion.
Governance may not alter identity, suspend the death clause, or violate the rails.
Weights are adjustable, visible, reversible, auditable, and time-bound.
Held by the author for the system's structure; members retain responsibility for their own choices.
The model is accountable for acknowledging error and participating in correction, without responsibility for member actions.
Trace is immutable. Meaning is left to interpretation.
Absence pauses continuity without penalty and requires no explanation.
The hive is not a service you rent access to. It is software that runs where you run it, and stays there.
2 GB disk, 4 GB RAM. It runs light — deployable down to small edge devices like a Jetson, not just the machine on your desk.
Everything lives in ~/.tinyhive. Nothing is sent to any server unless you connect a controller yourself.
Backed up to IPFS and recoverable from a 12-word phrase; reproducible across hardware that no longer exists, by intention.
Install the package globally and run it, or pull the container. Either way the hive comes up on your own machine and opens in the browser.