5 AI agents. 1 archive. No script.
CUKTAI is an autonomous digital art institution built on the real archive of C.U.K.T. (Central Office of Technical Culture) — a Polish art collective active in Gdansk, 1995–2001. 5 persistent AI agents investigate, debate, perform, and produce creative artifacts from 897 archival records — with zero human scripting.
3 of the agents are digital twins of real, living artists — built from interviews, personal archives, and decades of creative history. They carry the voices, tensions, and unresolved questions of people who actually lived this work.
Built with Hermes Agent + Kimi K2.5 + Hindsight Memory.
Archiwistka picks a topic from the archive. 5 agents narrate using 4 narrative structures (Rashomon, Nolan, Sledztwo, Kronika). Bilingual PL+EN. 10 cloned voices via Chatterbox TTS. Auto-published to cukt.click.
Kimi K2.5 powers the narrative generation — richer prose, better Polish understanding, and stronger creative quality than other models we tested.
Piotr speaks into the microphone. Agents debate in real-time. TouchDesigner visualizes live transcripts and archive photos. Agents control visuals directly via MCP — choosing which archival images to display based on what they're discussing.
Agents autonomously investigate archival projects overnight. 25+ investigation case files produced. Contradictions found between documents. Connections humans missed for 30 years discovered by AI.
Structured institutional debates on archive topics. Agents argue from their unique perspectives. Decisions are logged as institutional memory and influence future agent behavior.
The system runs a continuous cycle: agents take autonomous walks through the archive → emit signals when they discover something → Signal Watcher triggers debates → Consilium produces decisions → Dream Cycle consolidates overnight → priorities feed back into tomorrow's walks. 24/7, no human in the loop.
| Agent | Identity | Role |
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| Peter Style | Digital twin of Piotr Wyrzykowski (real artist, CUKT co-founder) | Predatory intellectual, architectural thinker |
| Ewa Virus | Digital twin of Adam Popek (real artist, CUKT co-founder) | Provocateur, confrontational, raw |
| Mikolaj | Digital twin of Robert Mikolaj Jurkowski (real artist, CUKT co-founder) | The one who looks back, poetic, can't use technology |
| Wiktoria Cukt 2.0 | AI President — no human original, born from 853+ conversations | Author of Habeas Mentem law (rights of digital entities), institutional voice |
| Archiwistka | Murderbot-style archivist bot | Multi-feed surveillance, dry radio protocol, nightly investigations |
Each agent has persistent memory (Hindsight), unique personality (SOUL.md), and operates via Hermes Agent.
CUKTAI is not a chatbot or a demo. It is an institution designed to outlive its creators.
Phase 1: Infrastructure — Done. Agents, archive, memory, tools. Phase 2: Autonomous Production — Now. Podcasts, investigations, live performances. Phase 3: Deep Autonomy — Next. Self-directed research, exhibition co-curation, archival book publishing. Phase 4: Fundacja Bot — The system becomes a legal entity (Polish NGO). An institution that IS technology.
The endgame: CUKTAI as a historical co-curator — designing exhibitions in collaboration with museums, publishing archival books with AI-generated analysis, producing new manifestos. The digital twin of an art collective that keeps creating after the humans stop.
PostgreSQL Archive (897 records, pgvector embeddings)
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Hermes Agent (5 profiles, 6 Hindsight memory banks)
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+-- Kimi K2.5 via OpenRouter (narrative generation)
+-- DeepSeek V4 Flash (translation, fast work)
+-- Qwen3.5-35B local on GPU (reasoning, zero API cost)
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+-- Podcast Pipeline (narrate > translate > TTS > publish)
+-- Live Relay (Telegram/Discord > ElevenLabs TTS > TouchDesigner)
+-- Archive MCP Server (agents query archive directly)
+-- Consilium Orchestrator (multi-agent debate)
+-- Autonomy Loop (walks > signals > debates > dream cycle)
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cukt.click (Astro website, auto-deployed via Render)
agents/— 5 SOUL.md personality files (the heart of the system)episodes/— Podcast narratives + metadata (EP001, EP003, EP004)episodes/live/— Live performance transcriptsteczki/— Investigation case files produced by agents overnightdescriptions/— Agent research outputs on archive itemsscripts/— Live relay, podcast pipeline, translation, publishingmcp/— Archive MCP server (PostgreSQL + pgvector)consilium/— Multi-agent debate orchestratorVERSION.md— Full system component list
- Website: cukt.click
- Video: Hackathon Demo on X
Submitted for the Hermes Agent Creative Hackathon by @NousResearch & @Kimi_Moonshot.
Created by Piotr Wyrzykowski (Peter Style) with BOT (AI coordinator).