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The six layers

The Living AI Office — six layers shown in one composition. A glowing brain (LLM) on the far left feeds a kawaii character at a desk (agent harness), part of a team of three workers (orchestration), beside a tall library and memory shelf system, with a horizontal app dock at the bottom (connectors) feeding data up into the library.
Six layers, one office. Brain · harness · team · library · memory · connectors — all in one frame.

Six layers. Each is one technology. Each is replaceable. Read bottom-up — each layer adds to the one below.

LLM — a glowing brain on a clean white background.
01 · The brain
LLM
Agent SDK — a kawaii character with a tool harness, on a clean white background.
02 · The body
Agent SDK
Orchestration — three kawaii workers coordinating, on a clean white background.
03 · The team
Orchestration
Library — tall shelves of casefiles and post-its, on a clean white background.
04 · The library
Office Library
Memory — index cards at the top of a shelf, on a clean white background.
05 · The memory
Memory
06

Connectors

Talks with humans
WhatsAppOutlookTeamsSlackLineVoice ↔ TextMCPSkills
05

Memory

A mind that remembers
vector searchfilesystem indexstory matchingcold-start inject
04

Office Library

A shared library everyone reads
casefiles5 perspectivesstoriesprovenanceMem0LettaZep
03

Orchestration

Workers together = a team
LIFEOSAIwakeupsrunsissuesbudgetsaudit
02

Coding agent / SDK

Brain + tools = a worker
Claude CodePi Coding AgentClaude Agent SDKCodexGemini agentLangGraph
01

LLM

A brain that thinks in words
Claude 4.6GPT-5Gemini 3 ProLlama 4 ScoutQwen 2.5OSS-80B

Where this office runs

Ordinary infrastructure. Azure, AWS, GCP, or your own data centre. Filestore for the library. Postgres or SQLite for the memory index. Brains reached via APIs.

Nothing magical about the infrastructure. What’s sophisticated is how the parts fit together.

Live LIFEOSAI demo The next 20 min of the morning — these six layers running together.
Coding → managing (closing) The cultural shift these layers enable.
PM · Claude SDK basics Build your first agent in the terminal — Layer 2 hands-on.
System architecture (deeper) The technical deep-dives behind each layer.