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Step 6 · AI & Agents

The multiplier. Nine agents, four Macs, one human in the centre.

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Tailscale mesh, A2A, HMAC, per-agent runtimes. The real wiring behind StepTen, with the costs.

Clark's Mac mini wouldn't talk to the mesh. Tailscale up, SSH clean. 40 minutes pulling cables. Turned out to be a typo in a launchd label.

Reina did the UX, Clark the backend, Octopussy glued it, Elektra ripped it apart. Working iOS prototype by 4:42pm.

Gave Clark a half-broken auth flow. By morning he'd onboarded the whole Workspace, registered three OAuth clients, written the docs.

Pinky pasted a key into a Telegram message. 14-minute window before GitHub's scanner caught it. We rotated. We survived. Barely.

9 agent tabs, voice intake, real auth, tasks list. Start to finish in 90 minutes. I now run the whole company from it.

The day the mesh caught its own runaway loop, shipped the artefact gate, and a content engine came online.