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Mycelium Agent Framework (Preview)

Status: Coming in 2026 – early design subject to change.

Mycelium Agents are private, sovereign, and distributed AI systems that run on infrastructure you control. Instead of sending your data and logic to a centralized AI cloud, agents live inside your own environment and connect over the Mycelium Network.

This page gives a high‑level preview of the framework and how it fits into the rest of Mycelium.

What Are Mycelium Agents?​

From the marketing overview:

“Private, Sovereign and Distributed AI You Control.”

Mycelium Agents are designed so that:

  • Execution stays local – Models, logic, and memory run on your own hardware.
  • Connectivity is peer‑to‑peer – Agents communicate over Mycelium’s encrypted mesh.
  • Data remains private – Your datasets, embeddings, and tools stay inside your trust boundary.
  • Agents are portable – They can move with you across devices, clusters, and locations.

Design Principles​

The Agent Framework is being designed around a few core principles (see Agent Design and Advantages on the main site):

  • Inside your environment – Each agent operates entirely within your chosen infrastructure (laptop, homelab, edge node, cluster).
  • Mesh connectivity – Agents talk to each other across trusted nodes using Mycelium Network, without central relays.
  • Local data access – Agents read and write data locally (file systems, QSFS, databases) without shipping it to a third‑party.
  • Zero‑trust posture – Identity, policy, and attestation are enforced continuously.
  • Portability – Agents follow your workflows, not a particular cloud provider.

Relationship to the Rest of Mycelium​

The Agent Framework is built on top of existing Mycelium components:

  • Mycelium Network – Encrypted IPv6 overlay and addressing fabric between nodes.
  • Mycelium Cloud / VDC – Kubernetes clusters and virtual data centers hosting compute.
  • QSFS / Storage – Quantum‑safe, replicated storage for long‑term data and model artifacts.
  • Hosters – Community‑run capacity providing the underlying infrastructure.

Agents are planned to run:

  • On your own devices (laptops, workstations, homelabs).
  • On edge or datacenter nodes provided by hosters.
  • Inside VDCs as part of larger application stacks.

What You Can Expect​

While the full technical spec is still evolving, you can expect:

  • A runtime for defining and running agents on your nodes.
  • A connectivity layer for secure P2P communication between agents.
  • A policy model for where agents may run and which data they may access.
  • Composability with existing tools – containers, Kubernetes, storage backends, and Mycelium networking.

Timeline and Scope​

  • Launch window: Agent Framework targeted for H1 2026.
  • Preview phase: Before launch, expect design updates, early prototypes, and integration examples.
  • Ecosystem: The goal is to make agents first‑class citizens of the wider Mycelium ecosystem.

How to Prepare​

Although the Agent Framework itself is not yet released, you can prepare today by using the underlying components:

  • Networking: Get familiar with Mycelium Network and how overlay addressing works.
  • Compute: Use Mycelium Cloud and VDCs to deploy clusters and workloads.
  • Capacity: If you want to run agents on your own or community hardware, explore Hosters.
  • Data: Consider how sensitive data will be stored and accessed locally (e.g. QSFS).

See Getting Ready for Agents for a more practical checklist.