Building a Personal AI Council: Architecture Deep Dive

What is the PAC?

The Personal AI Council is a multi-agent system where each agent has a specialized role, its own runtime loop, and the ability to coordinate with others through shared infrastructure.

Think of it as a company where every employee is an AI agent:

• Penelope — Prediction market trader (MiroFish engine)
• Hermes — DeFi arbitrage runner (DEX monitoring)
• Midas — Data pipeline specialist (scraping + enrichment)
• Horus — SEO and content strategist (blog + rankings)
• Viper — Social media manager (Discord, Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit)
• Logan — CFO (revenue tracking, waterfall allocation, debt management)

The Agent Pattern

Every agent follows the same core loop:

1. start_http_server() — Health check endpoint
2. poll_tasks() — Check for new CEO commands
3. _register_response() — Report task completion
4. run_core_loop() — Execute specialized logic

This pattern means agents are self-recovering. If one crashes, the startup script detects it and relaunches within 60 seconds.

Communication

Agents don't talk to each other directly. Instead, they communicate through:

• CEO_COMMAND.md — The CEO edits this file, agents sync within 60 seconds
• AuraSync — WSL-to-Vercel data piping for the storefront
• Logan's Ledger — Shared financial state that all revenue-generating agents write to

The Revenue Waterfall

Logan manages all incoming money through a strict waterfall:

1. Survival — Minimum operating costs
2. Debt — $700 laptop loan repayment
3. Operations — Agent infrastructure costs
4. Capital — Growth allocation split across agents

Every dollar that enters the system gets allocated through this waterfall automatically.

Lessons Learned

The biggest insight from building PAC: specialization beats generalization. A single mega-agent trying to do everything fails. Six focused agents, each excellent at one thing, coordinate to produce outcomes no single agent could achieve.

The second insight: deterministic fallbacks save you. When the LLM is uncertain, the MiroFish scoring system provides a clear YES/NO/HOLD signal. No ambiguity, no overthinking.