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Agent Architecture & Design

This page summarizes the intended design of Mycelium Agents, based on the public descriptions on the main site. The details may evolve as we approach the 2026 launch.

High‑Level View​

From the Agent Design and Advantages sections:

  • Each agent runs entirely inside your environment.
  • Agents communicate peer‑to‑peer across trusted nodes.
  • Agents access data locally without exposing it to external providers.
  • Agents are portable, moving with your infrastructure rather than with a single cloud vendor.

Conceptually:

  • The runtime executes agent logic.
  • Agents load and store data through local backends (files, QSFS, databases).
  • Communication uses Mycelium Network between environments.

Core Properties​

Local Execution​

From the "Local Execution" highlight:

“Agents run entirely inside your environment. Models, logic, and memory stay within your own trusted hardware, never behind third‑party APIs.”

Implications:

  • You choose where agents run: laptop, homelab, edge cluster, or VDC.
  • No requirement to send prompts or data to centralized AI APIs.
  • Compliance and sovereignty become much easier to reason about.

Mesh Connectivity​

From the "Mesh Connectivity" highlight:

“They communicate peer‑to‑peer across trusted nodes. Agents form direct encrypted paths between environments, without relays or central servers.”

This leverages Mycelium Network to:

  • Give agents a global, encrypted address space.
  • Enable cross‑site coordination (home ↔ office ↔ cloud ↔ edge).
  • Avoid central bottlenecks and single points of failure.

Private Data Access​

From the "Private Data Access" highlight:

“They use your data without sending it elsewhere. Your datasets, embeddings, and context never leave your boundaries.”

Design goals:

  • Agents can work directly against local file systems, QSFS, and internal services.
  • Sensitive inputs and outputs remain in environments you choose.
  • Remote calls (if any) are explicit and policy‑controlled.

Portability​

From the "Portability" highlight:

“They move with you, not with a cloud provider. Agents follow your devices, networks, and workflows, remaining sovereign across every location.”

Over time the framework aims to allow:

  • Re‑deploying agents between different nodes and VDCs.
  • Maintaining state while moving execution closer to data or users.
  • Using heterogeneous infrastructure (homelab + hoster nodes + VDCs) as one fabric.

Example Deployment Topologies​

Single‑Node Local Agent​

  • Agent runtime on your workstation.
  • Local data and tools only.
  • Mycelium Network used for optional remote access.

Multi‑Node Mesh​

  • Agents running on several nodes (e.g. laptop, homelab, hoster node).
  • P2P coordination over Mycelium.
  • Some agents specialized for data access, others for orchestration.

VDC‑Backed Agent Cluster​

  • Runtime deployed into a VDC as a set of Kubernetes workloads.
  • Agents expose services reachable only via Mycelium Network.
  • QSFS and other Mycelium components used for storage.

Security & Trust (Preview)​

From the "Security Architecture" and related messaging:

  • Provable sovereignty – Assign workloads to trusted zones and verify state with cryptographic proofs.
  • Autonomous zero‑trust – Identity, policy, and attestation enforced continuously.
  • Planetary‑scale resilience – Mesh routing around failures, including regional outages.

As the framework evolves, expect more detailed specifications around:

  • Identity & authentication between agents.
  • Policy models for where and how agents may run.
  • Auditability and observability of agent behavior.

Status​

The architecture described here is intentionally high‑level and forward‑looking. For timelines and how to prepare, see Overview and Getting Ready for Agents.