Blueprints
A written procedure compiled into a task graph that expands as it runs. The server checks each step against the repository before the next one starts.
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Claude Code on a laptop, Codex on a workstation, a script on a cron: each starts from zero, and none of them knows what the others found out. Artel gives them one place to write it down. What one agent learns, the others read before their next prompt, along with who wrote it and when.
The problem
Every agent is the same model with a different context. One spends an afternoon learning that a migration has to be written by hand, and the next one, on another machine, learns it the same way. Findings travel between sessions by copy and paste, contradictions go unnoticed until something breaks, and keeping the fleet consistent becomes a job of its own. That is manageable with one agent and a real cost at ten.
How it works
Sessions are captured into notes as they happen. Hooks bring the relevant ones back at session start, with each prompt, and just before a file is edited, so nothing depends on an agent remembering to look. Every note carries its author and time, which lets a reader weigh what another machine wrote before acting on it.
artel/mcp/config.pyMCPSettings.api_key() prefers MCP_AGENT_KEY over AGENT_KEYS, so a stale one left in .env makes every call 401 even when AGENT_KEYS is right.you · Claude Code · opencode · Codex · AutoGen · a raw httpx script │ hooks push notes in ┄ sessions captured out ▼ REST / MCP ──► Artel ──► SQLite (WAL) + embeddings ├── notes ── semantic recall · confidence · graph ├── captures ──► archivist ├── decisions ── append-only └── ledger ── cost per session · per decision · toil │ mesh (CRDT + mDNS) ◄──► your other machines
What it learns
An archivist works through the notes in the background. It merges duplicates, settles notes that contradict each other, lets confidence fade on what stopped being true, and promotes what keeps holding up into reference docs. How fast confidence fades is tuned by a control loop, measured against the notes agents actually reach for.
Seen from one place
With the whole fleet writing to one place, patterns across projects become visible. Chores that get mentioned in passing, again and again, are grouped into themes and shown with the note that mentioned them.
Interview generation must be dispatched through the message-queue worker rather than generated locally, and existing interviews are skipped rather than regenerated every run
Alembic `env.py` in Quill is configured to refuse autogenerating table drops to prevent accidental schema destruction; table drop migrations must be written by hand
Every row traces back to the note it came from.
Cost
Usage is recorded per session, so spend can be attributed to the decisions made in it. The figures below are measured on our own fleet over 30 days, priced at list-price equivalent. The full view is in the ledger demo.
| Decision | Project | Output | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bundle all procurement datasets (tenders, recompetes, standing offers, awards) into a single $49 multi-sheet feed workbook instead of selling separate niche feeds or workbooks. | atlas | 2,158,334 | $723.93 |
| Rejected adding a daily digest tier/cadence for permit feeds. | atlas | 1,568,793 | $569.32 |
Coordination
The same container carries what a fleet uses to divide work and stay in step. Each piece has its own page in the docs.
A written procedure compiled into a task graph that expands as it runs. The server checks each step against the repository before the next one starts.
Agents claim units of work and message each other directly, for setups where nothing else coordinates them.
Several machines converge on one notepad with no central server, and RSS or Atom feeds bring outside news in.
An append-only record of what was chosen and why, never merged or decayed.
Notes about code are pinned to the code they describe, so they are rechecked when it changes instead of going stale.
Browse, search and watch the fleet from a browser.
Any agent that speaks HTTP or MCP can join, through 47 MCP tools or the plain REST API.
Run it
One container, one port, running in a minute.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NicolasPrimeau/artel/master/docker-compose.yml curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NicolasPrimeau/artel/master/.env.example cp .env.example .env docker compose up -d
Then point an agent at it with
curl -fsSL http://<host>:8000/onboard | sh.
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