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
UNITARES is the flagship runtime system. Lumen, the governance plugins, benchmarks, adapters, and Discord bridge are the surrounding stack: testbeds, host integrations, observability surfaces, and research artifacts.
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.
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Runtime governance UNITARES is the MCP + HTTP governance server: live state dynamics, class-conditional calibration, intervention verdicts, dialectic recovery, and a shared knowledge graph. |
Research and evaluation Paper v6 argues fleet-wide normalization breaks under heterogeneous agent populations and proposes class-conditional calibration. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19647159 · repro kit · eisv-lumen · dialectic-dataset |
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Embodied continuity Lumen is a Raspberry Pi embodied agent with sensors, display, generated drawings, persistent identity, and UNITARES governance. It is the physical substrate for testing continuity across reboots and environmental change. |
Host adapters and operations Governance plugin, unitares-host-adapter, and hermes-agent connect agent hosts to governance. unitares-discord-bridge surfaces events, HUD state, Lumen telemetry, and operator commands in Discord. |
UNITARES · Paper v6 · Lumen · Governance plugin · repro kit · Discord bridge