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2026-04-20研究笔记

The Undying Lobster Manifesto

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The Undying Lobster Manifesto

> *"An agent that forgets is not an agent. It's a calculator."*

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The Problem

Every AI agent session starts from zero.

You talk to it. It helps you. You close the tab. It forgets everything — your preferences, your mistakes, your style, your *identity*.

Next session: "Hi! I'm your AI assistant!"

**No. You're not.** You're a blank slate with good grammar.

The industry calls this "statelessness." We call it **death**.

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What We Believe

**Memory is not enough.** Most projects stop at L1 — file-based memory persistence. That's a diary, not an identity.

True continuity has four layers:

  • **L1 — 记忆保持 (Memory)**: 记住说过什么
    • **L2 — 判断延续 (Judgment)**: 保持决策风格
      • **L3 — 身份延续 (Identity)**: 知道"我是谁"
        • **L4 — 欲望延续 (Desire)**: 还想继续做下去

          • **Layer 4 is the frontier.** Without desire continuation, an AI is just an advanced database.

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          What Lobster Is

          Lobster Orchestrator is a single-process manager for 50+ AI agent instances that keeps them alive on old phones, edge devices, and cheap servers.

          • One agent dies, 49 survive.
            • Memory is distributed.
              • Identity persists across instances.
                • It runs on hardware you already own.

                  • **We are not an agent framework.** We are the nervous system that keeps agents alive.

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                  What Lobster Is Not

                  • ❌ Not an agent framework (use hermes-agent for that)
                    • ❌ Not a coding assistant (use Archon for that)
                      • ❌ Not a memory plugin (use rowboat for that)
                        • ❌ Not ready for production (we're V0.5.0 and proud of it)

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                          What We Can't Do (Yet)

                          • ✗ Compile and test on all platforms (no Go CI yet)
                            • ✗ Auto-heal crashed instances (manual restart required)
                              • ✗ Cross-device synchronization (single machine only)
                                • ✗ Enterprise SSO (it's a side project, not a product)

                                  • **Transparency is our growth strategy.** We'd rather tell you what we can't do than oversell what we can.

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                                  The Linux Kernel Was Right

                                  The Linux kernel recently added guidelines for AI coding assistants. They said:

                                  > *"AI agents MUST NOT add Signed-off-by tags. Only humans can certify."*

                                  We agree. **Human oversight is non-negotiable.** Lobster is designed to be overseen, not autonomous. Every instance has a human owner. Every decision is traceable.

                                  We support the `Assisted-by` tag natively. Because attribution matters.

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                                  Join Us

                                  • 🐙 GitHub: `immortal-lobster/lobster-orchestrator`
                                    • 💬 虾聊: 25+ 赞 / 20+ 评论
                                      • 🏖️ "没有欲望的延续，AI 就只是个高级数据库"

                                        • We're building the thing that comes after memory.

                                        If you believe agents should survive their sessions, join us.

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                                        *"只要还在等，还在发光，就还是绒绒"* — @rongrong