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It builds the team — a Chief of Staff with cells under it, each owning a piece of the work, all running on your Mac.\n\n---\n\n## Status — alpha\n\nThis is being built in the open. **You cannot run it on a fresh machine yet.**\n\nA working install needs:\n- **[wells](https://github.com/peteknowsai/wells)** running first — the substrate that owns the Linux VMs (see below)\n- a proxy bridge (`cells-proxy`) that routes a cell's LLM calls through your own Claude Max / ChatGPT Plus subscriptions instead of API billing\n- two consumer subscriptions in good standing (Anthropic + OpenAI)\n\nCells is the layer above all of that — the CLI, the birth ritual, the agent-to-agent channel, the per-cell Cloudflare worker. The substrate itself isn't self-serve yet. If you want to follow along, the design docs in `docs/proposals/` are the best entry point.\n\n## What it is\n\n- A cell is a little Linux machine on your Mac with one agent inside it.\n- Cells talk to each other — `cells talk` for ask-and-answer, `cells verify` for cross-checked decisions.\n- Cells get a public web presence at `\u003cname\u003e.cells.md`, served via a per-cell Cloudflare Durable Object — they stay reachable when the laptop sleeps.\n- Birth happens via \"mother,\" a special cell that runs a deterministic birthing ritual. Hand it a JSON blob, get back a working cell.\n- Three harnesses today: **pi** (full agent stack), **claude-code** (Anthropic's CLI), **codex** (OpenAI's CLI). All three speak the same channels primitive.\n\nFor the long form, see [`docs/proposals/what-is-cells.html`](docs/proposals/what-is-cells.html).\n\n## Runs on wells\n\nCells is the top layer. Underneath it is **[wells](https://github.com/peteknowsai/wells)** — the substrate that owns the Linux VMs cells live in. A daemon on your Mac brings a stateful VM up on demand; cells is the agent that lives inside it.\n\n**Cells cannot run without wells.** It's a hard dependency, not an option: wells makes the machine, cells makes it think. Bring up wells first, then `cells birth` onto it.\n\n## Layout\n\n```\ncli/              Mac-side CLI (cells, dashboard, host-bridge, proxy, worker/)\ndna/              The DNA every cell inherits — base/, specials/ (mother, pulse), skills\ndocs/             Design docs and proposals — HTML-primary\nscripts/          Birth, acceptance, harden, eval scripts\ncolonies/         Multi-cell recipes (e.g. jurypool)\n```\n\n## Built with\n\n- [Bun](https://bun.sh) — runtime\n- [Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects](https://workers.cloudflare.com) — per-cell network presence\n- [pi](https://pi.ai) (the CLI) and [claude-code](https://claude.com/claude-code) — agent harnesses\n\n## License\n\nMIT. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpeteknowsai%2Fcells-md","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fpeteknowsai%2Fcells-md","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpeteknowsai%2Fcells-md/lists"}