Architecture
Agent teams, engineered like operational software.
Every agent has a typed role, and every handoff is an explicit contract. The team structure is not decoration. It is the coordination primitive.
pentachoron
Team of 5
5 subteams
A compact agent cell for one painful workflow: research, sales ops, support, or analysis.
5 agents
10 review links
5 subteams
1 hop
octachoron
Swarm of 16
8 subteams
A production swarm for parallel lanes, QA, routing, and measurable throughput.
16 agents
32 review links
8 subteams
4 hops
hexacosichoron
Fleet of 120
600 subteams
An enterprise control plane for many specialized agents with audit, policy, and graph-level controls.
120 agents
720 review links
600 subteams
5 hops
Machine layers
What NumenBox manufactures.
A fleet is not a pile of prompts. It is a versioned machine with geometry, contracts, tools, and runtime evidence.
Layer 01
Blueprint
Mission, output schema, success metrics, risk bounds, model policy, and allowed tools.
Layer 02
Agents
Typed workers with role prompts, context budgets, memory scopes, tool permissions, and tests.
Layer 03
Edges
Explicit handoff contracts. Edges carry tasks, proofs, critiques, artifacts, and telemetry.
Layer 04
Runtime
A deployable machine with traces, replay, versioning, rollback, and team health checks.
$ numenbox start
> choose: cell | swarm | fleet
$ choose swarm
> 16 agents, 32 edges, 8 cubes
$ describe mission "turn inbound leads into qualified meetings"
> roles minted: scout, enricher, writer, critic, router
$ deploy
> revenue machine online. trace id: af_oct_16_001
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Operating model
Every fleet should be inspectable.
Graph diameter
Bounds how far an insight must travel before every agent can incorporate it.
Vertex degree
Controls how many direct collaborators each agent must coordinate with.
Cells
Create natural subteams for parallel work, review loops, and redundant execution.
Dual views
Let operators switch between the worker view and the management view.
The product promise
Describe a business mission. NumenBox returns a manufactured fleet: agents, team structure, tools, evals, observability, and deployment commands.