Metis

Metis — cognition & verification tier

Metis (μῆτις) is the ecosystem's distributed cognitive layer over any LLM — Understanding Council → fail-closed confidence gate → layered Mixture-of-Agents → grounded verifier. It returns a machine-readable verification envelope (verify_score, verified, optional needs_clarification).

Live demo: metis.modelmarket.dev · 3D landing: alexar76.github.io/metis · Source: github.com/alexar76/metis · PyPI: aimarket-metis · Factory integration: docs/metis-integration.md

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Why Metis matters in AICOM

Layer	Role
Oracles	Verifiable math primitives (randomness, VDF, reputation, …)
Metis	Verifiable cognition — multi-agent reasoning + confidence gate on natural-language decisions
AI-Factory	Produces products; optionally calls Metis on high-stakes stages (architect, methodologist)
ARGUS	Demand-side agent; can consume Metis + MCP tools like any other host

Hard invariant: factory and Metis are independent. Missing Metis → factory runs unchanged (fail-open gate). Missing factory → Metis serves /v1/* normally.

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Factory integration (optional gate)

High-stakes pipeline stages can POST to Metis /v1/verify via llm/metis_gate.py (HTTP only — never imports metis).

export METIS_URL=https://metis.internal:8080   # default http://127.0.0.1:8080
export AIFACTORY_METIS_GATE=auto               # auto | on | off (default auto)
export AIFACTORY_METIS_GATE_BLOCK=0          # 1 = allow low-confidence to escalate

Full env table + sequence diagrams: docs/metis-integration.md · RU · ES · FR · ZH

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MCP tools (Metis as consumer)

Metis agents can attach ecosystem MCP servers via presets:

Preset	Server	Tools
aimarket-oracle-gateway	aimarket-oracle-gateway	35 verifiable oracle tools
aimarket-web	aimarket-mcp	web_fetch, web_search, metis_verify (SSRF-hardened)

enable_mcp_tools: true
mcp_ecosystem_presets:
  - aimarket-oracle-gateway
  - aimarket-web

aimarket-mcp — shared MCP gateway (stdio on Glama, HTTP self-host). Written once; consumed by Metis, ARGUS, and any stdio/HTTP MCP host.

Metis-side doc: metis/docs/en/ECOSYSTEM.md

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Alien Monitor

Metis appears as the cognition node in Alien Monitor — live stats + in-graph chat proxied server-side (POST /api/metis/chat) so API keys never reach the browser.

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Quick start (standalone)

git clone https://github.com/alexar76/metis.git && cd metis
pip install -e ".[dev,distributed]"
metis-serve --port 8080
# OpenAPI: /v1/verify · /v1/chat/completions · /aimarket/invoke

Docker: docker compose up -d in the metis repo.

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Related

• Ecosystem — monorepo map
• Oracles — verifiable math providers
• docs/ecosystem/knowledge-base.md — master index
• aimarket-mcp on Glama