PERSONAL BUILD · ALWAYS ON
Argus
Named for the watchman with a hundred eyes. A local web cockpit that watches an always-on AI agent stack and hands back the controls.
One glance, not five terminals.
An always-on agent stack is a lot of moving state. A gateway on Telegram, cron agents that run while I sleep, a board of delegated work, a knowledge vault, a memory that grows while I sleep. Every piece kept its own logs in its own corner of a terminal.
Argus answers one question: can I see all of it, and steer, from a single screen? You glance at it to know what is happening. You type into it to change what happens next.
Six surfaces. A hundred eyes.
The rail runs in this order; click through the rail to walk it. Under every surface sits the same command bar: type, pick a target agent, and the output streams back live.
The whole stack on one screen: gateway health, agent heartbeat, the latest delegated task, vault pulse, memory mini.
Built like an instrument.
- Read-only by design
- Argus reads agent state, it never writes it. Even the task database opens in read-only mode.
- Loopback only
- Binds 127.0.0.1 with a session key on every route. The command bar executes real shell, so the surface is never reachable off-host.
- Adapters at the boundary
- Every external coupling lives in one of two adapter files. When an on-disk format changes, the fix is one file.
- Streams, not sockets
- Three-second polling for state, server-sent events for command output and log tails. No websockets to babysit.
- Runs like a service
- Supervised by launchd, survives logout, keeps watching while the laptop lid is closed.
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Why Argus.
Argus Panoptes was the watchman the gods trusted because he could not be caught asleep: a hundred eyes, never more than half of them closed. That is the job description of a status surface. It does not act on your behalf. It never blinks, so you can.
Want one watching your stack?
The same pattern - a glanceable cockpit over systems you already run - is what I ship for companies through AI Studio.