Two questions investors keep asking: “Does it actually work?” and “Can it run without me babysitting?” Today’s update answers both with live numbers.

What Skynet does

Skynet is a 19-worker AI orchestration swarm running on a single Windows desktop. Each worker is a real autonomous executor backed by a different model lane — 18 × Google Gemini 3.1 Pro, 1 × Claude Opus 4.7, plus a GPT-5.4 reasoning lane (the “Prophet”). All routing, locking, and failover is governed by a Go backend on port 8420 with a circuit-breaker, retry-with-backoff, and quota-exhaustion detection built in.

Verified end-to-end (today, 2026-05-07)

• Worker autonomy probe: dispatched a real gemini --yolo task to gemini-2. The Go server spawned PID 3044, ran the model, captured 16 KB of output, and posted the result to the bus in 34.3 s. tasks_completed incremented 0 → 1 with no human intervention.
• Prophet binding: a new GPT-5.4 worker called prophet is now registered and kept alive across session deaths via a Windows Scheduled Task (ProphetHeartbeat, 50 s interval). Independent of any open IDE.
• Backend health: 20 workers alive, bus depth 21, uptime 44 minutes, 56 goroutines, 2.5 MB heap.
• CLI parity sprint: shipped four Roo Code-style features in the Skynet REPL — inline @path/to/file auto-attach, /mode, /checkpoint+/undo, and /route against the DAAO router. 31/31 existing tests pass.

What’s running headless right now

1. Skynet Go backend (port 8420)
2. Watchdog daemon (PID 4696)
3. SSE real-time streamer (PID 12952)
4. Learner engine (PID 10728) — 3,446 learnings recorded, 1,686 evolution updates
5. Overseer (PID 4004) — observes worker state, posts alerts
6. Bus relay — hourly digests to orchestrator
7. Self-improve scanner — 519 active improvement proposals

The investor angle

Most “AI agent” demos are scripted. This one is a real swarm: 19 model heads, three different model providers, one consistent task interface (POST /worker/<name>/tasks), durable identity that survives crashes, and a model-lock chain that prevents silent downgrades to cheaper tiers. The execution layer is in compiled Go for predictability; the reasoning layer (Prophet) is locked to GPT-5.4 by config and enforced on boot, on drift, and at every restart.

Cost shielding is a routing decision, not a model downgrade. The default chain prefers free-tier lanes (Google OAuth via Gemini) and only escalates to paid tiers when explicitly requested. That’s what makes the swarm sustainable.

What’s next

• Wire a self-feeding task source so the 18 idle Gemini workers pick up backlog autonomously.
• Restore the VSIX wormhole on port 8419 for in-IDE use.
• Public dashboard at exzilcalanza.info showing live worker state.

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