CIRWEL is an independent research and systems lab, founded by Kenny Wang, building runtime governance, continuity, and observability infrastructure for autonomous AI-agent fleets.
Agents fail gradually before they fail visibly — drifting, thrashing, growing overconfident on stale context. CIRWEL builds the state layer that lets agents notice and act on that drift before it becomes an incident.
agent acts → check-in → calibrated state + verdict → self-regulates → audit trail
The CIRWEL stack has run continuously since November 2025 as a single-operator deployment. That is a stress test, not a claim of external adoption.
- What this is: runtime state telemetry for agent fleets after deployment — the layer between evals/guardrails and incident response.
- What this is not: not an output filter, not a sandbox, not a universal ethics oracle, and not yet a claim of external adoption.
- Initial wedge: teams running long-lived coding, research, or operations agents add one MCP/REST check-in per unit of work plus outcome events from tests, tools, and other hard signals.
- Current ask: external pilots and design partners who already operate autonomous agents long enough for drift, calibration, and recovery to matter.
Read order:
- 3 minutes:
unitares→ rundocker compose up+make demo. - 10 minutes: add
unitares-governance-plugin,unitares-host-adapter, andanima-mcp. - 30 minutes: read
unitares-paper-v6, reproduce §11.6 withunitares-repro-v6, and inspecteisv-lumen.
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Runtime governance UNITARES is the MCP + HTTP governance server. Agents check in; UNITARES tracks a live state vector per agent and returns a verdict — |
Host integrations Governance plugin, host adapter, and hermes-agent mount governance into Claude Code, Codex, and other agent hosts. |
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Peer review on disagree When an agent's confidence and the system's assessment diverge, UNITARES runs a short dialectic with peer agents — or an LLM, when no peers are around — before anything halts. Training data: dialectic-dataset. |
Research and observability Paper v6 (concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19647159) on heterogeneous-fleet calibration · repro kit for the §11.6 verdict counterfactual · Discord bridge for live operator visibility. |
UNITARES · Governance plugin · host adapter · Anima/Lumen · EISV-Lumen · Paper v6 · repro kit



