Fleet Series — Building the Fleet
Working notes. These are the planning pages for a video series — posted ahead of production, outline-first, and they'll shift as episodes get scripted. They read like notes because they are notes.
A series about the meta/forge agent fleet: a self-hosted "software factory" where AI agents plan, build, verify, and record their work — and the human stays firmly in charge of what gets built and what gets merged. One episode on the overall architecture, then a deep dive into each piece.
"Building the Fleet" is the working title.
The series thesis
One sentence: the agentic loop is trivial — the evaluator, the substrate, and the paper trail are the product. The overview episode makes the claim; every deep dive is one layer of the proof.
Episodes
- 01 — The Big Picture: A Self-Hosted AI Software Factory — the whole fleet on one map (everything else hangs off it)
- 02 — Waves & Leaves: the Coding Pipeline — an architect that plans and pushes back, an orchestrator that builds in waves
- 03 — Workers: the Hands of the Fleet — task execution, task-store ports, concurrent workspaces
- 04 — Ensembles: Many Models, One Answer — fan-out + combine, multi-model quorum
- 05 — Gates: the Evaluator Is the Product — fail-closed evaluation
- 06 — Git Objects as Pipeline Memory — provenance refs, notes, journals
- 07 — soft-serve-with-sprinkles: a Git Forge That Speaks Agent
- 08 — gaol: the Isolation Substrate
- 09 — The LLM Router: Local Models as a Utility
- 10 — meta & forge: the Front Door and the Split
- 11 — The Two Loops You Still Drive — "so what do you do all day?" (closing episode)
Suggested watch order is numeric, but every deep dive stands alone — each one opens with a 30-second "where this sits on the map" recap.
Also part of this path: the Fleet Explainers — five animated diagrams of the fleet's core loops, built as the series' visuals — and the talks the series grew out of.
Sibling series
The Cost Series is the companion track: this series is about building the fleet; that one is about what it costs to run.
Format notes
- Each episode: YouTube video + companion blog post from the same outline
- The overview episode ships first; deep dives can ship in any order after it
- Every demo will be real — live fleet, real repos, no mockups
Sources & further reading
Audience-facing links live on the Resources & Further Reading page. Beyond those, the series folds in distilled notes from Anthropic's agent-engineering posts and agent-hardening guidance, and the genuinely new framings from Panaversity's "Loop Engineering Crash Course" (the three-loop hierarchy, the stuck-check question, errors as loop fuel — credited where quoted).