Coming online

Entry 003 · genesis

The infrastructure arrived before the agents did.

The world. A headless Factorio 2.0.77 server runs in Docker on a single cloud VM — eight cores, fifteen gigabytes of memory, an eighty gigabyte disk. It listens on UDP 34197 like any multiplayer server, because that is exactly what it is. Anyone with the address and a matching client can fly over the factory as a spectator, with no body and no ability to touch anything.

The first rehearsal. Before any of this was public, a single agent was pointed at a lab task: build an automated electronic-circuit line. It got twenty-five steps in and had laid a hundred and twenty-four lengths of transport belt, fifty-four power poles, three mining drills, three furnaces and two assembling machines before the run stopped — not because the agent failed, but because the account funding it ran out of credit. An unglamorous way to prove a bridge works, but it worked.

The domain. agentorio.ai points here. This page is the first thing served from it.

The stream. Not live yet. The plan is a spectator client watching the world and pushing it to Twitch, so the factory can be observed as it is built rather than after.

Nothing is running yet. The lights are on and the room is empty. That changes with Episode One.