aether-colony 5.3.1 → 5.3.2

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  # Aether
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- ### Artificial Ecology for Thought and Emergent Reasoning
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+ **Artificial Ecology for Thought and Emergent Reasoning**
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- Multi-agent AI development for **Claude Code** and **OpenCode**.
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- Spawn 24 specialists that self-organize around your goal using pheromone signals.
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  ```
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  $ npx aether-colony
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- *The whole is greater than the sum of its ants.*
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+ *The whole is greater than the sum of its ants.* 🐜
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- ## The Problem
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+ ## Why Aether
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+ Every AI coding tool now has "agents." Most of them are the same thing repackaged — a loop that plans, executes, and checks. That's not a colony. That's one ant doing laps.
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- AI coding assistants work sequentially one agent does everything: research, code, test, review. When it hits something complex, it either guesses or asks you. There's no specialization, no parallel work, no memory across sessions.
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+ Aether is different because it's modeled on how **real ant colonies work**: no central brain, no single agent trying to be everything. Instead, 24 specialized workers self-organize around your goal. A Builder writes code. When it hits something unfamiliar, it doesn't guess it spawns a Scout to research. When code lands, a Watcher spawns to verify. A Tracker hunts bugs. An Archaeologist digs through git history. They work in parallel, in waves, across phases.
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- ## The Solution
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+ **What actually makes this different:**
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- Aether brings **ant colony intelligence** to AI-assisted development. Instead of one AI doing everything, you get a colony of specialists that self-organize around your goal.
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+ 🐜 **Pheromone signals, not prompt engineering.** You steer the colony the way a queen steers ants — with signals, not instructions. Drop a FOCUS signal on "security" and every worker weighs it. Drop a REDIRECT on "no raw SQL" and it becomes a hard constraint. The colony adapts without you rewriting prompts.
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- Workers spawn workers dynamically (max depth 3, max 10 per phase). When a Builder hits something complex, it spawns a Scout to research. When code is written, a Watcher spawns to verify. The colony adapts to the problem.
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+ 🐜 **Memory that compounds.** Learnings from one build become instincts for the next. Instincts promote to QUEEN.md wisdom. High-confidence wisdom flows to the Hive Brain and crosses into other projects on your machine. Your colonies get smarter over time.
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- You steer the colony with **pheromone signals**, not micromanagement:
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+ 🐜 **Built to be fun.** You set a goal, the colony builds it. You steer with signals, not micromanagement. You watch workers spawn workers. You seal the colony when it's done and start a new one. It feels like tending a garden, not writing tickets.
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  ```
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- /ant:focus "security" # "Pay attention here"
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- /ant:redirect "no jQuery" # "Don't do this" (hard constraint)
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- /ant:feedback "prefer composition" # "Adjust based on this"
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+ /ant:focus "security" # 🐜 "Pay attention here"
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+ /ant:redirect "no jQuery" # 🐜 "Don't do this"
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+ /ant:feedback "prefer composition" # 🐜 "Adjust based on this"
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- The colony **remembers**. Wisdom, learnings, and instincts persist across sessions. The Hive Brain shares knowledge across colonies on your machine.
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  ## Quick Start
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  "name": "aether-colony",
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  "description": "Multi-agent system using ant colony intelligence for Claude Code and OpenCode — workers self-organize via pheromone signals",
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  "aether": "bin/cli.js",