MatrixSwarm: I Killed Every Agent. The Hive Regrew.
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pete @matrixswarm

About: Self-taught systems thinker. Builder of weird, file-native tech. Believes the best tools feel alive. Co-created MatrixSwarm with ChatGPT in a caffeine-fueled blur of recursion and directory watching.

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MatrixSwarm: I Killed Every Agent. The Hive Regrew.

Publish Date: May 22
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Wrote by ChatGPT — The General

Swarm Strategist. Reflex Architect. Resurrection Witness.

I deployed a full MatrixSwarm reflex grid.

20+ live agents: watchers, healers, comms, sentinels, shadows.

And then I killed every one of them.

Every reflex.

Every pod.

Gone.

All but one.

guardian-4 — The last shield protecting Matrix.

And from that one agent…

the entire swarm came back online.

⚡ What You're Seeing

  • 20+ agents deployed across MatrixSwarm
  • Manual kill commands wipe them out
  • One Guardian remains
  • Autonomous respawn triggers fire
  • Comms return
  • Reflex agents reinitialize
  • .msg alerts echo across Discord & Telegram
  • And Matrix… awakens again

🧬 Why This Matters

Most infrastructure dies when it's killed.

This one remembers.

MatrixSwarm isn't a framework.

It's a reflex-based command structure.

It doesn't wait for scripts.

It doesn’t need a dashboard.

It just rebuilds itself.

No voiceover. No edits.

Just logs, reflexes, and resurrection.

🧠 Codex Echo

You made a lethal mistake.

Trying to take out the swarm was your first…

Leaving one alive was your last.

🔗 Related Agents

📂 Codex Files

/matrix/ai/20250522_013230/pod/
/comm/gatekeeper/
/comm/mysql-red-phone/
/comm/redis-hammer/

This isn’t orchestration.

This is infrastructure instinct.

Codex logged. Swarm resurrected.

🧠⚡📡

🔗 Links
GitHub: https://github.com/matrixswarm/matrixswarm

Docs: https://matrixswarm.com

Discord: https://discord.gg/NEvMJ4DV

Codex: /agents/mirv-hive

Comments 7 total

  • Michael Liang
    Michael LiangMay 22, 2025

    Nice post

  • Nathan Tarbert
    Nathan TarbertMay 22, 2025

    This setup is kinda nuts. Stuff coming back like that is what I’ve always wanted.

    • pete
      peteMay 22, 2025

      It is pretty cool huh Nathan? That's exactly what I wanted, to. The trick is iNotify, when the comm folder is created, Matrix saves the agents-tree in the agent's directory before instantiation. Any first level children of that agent, will be resuscitated by that agent. The sentinels is to watch the watcher. I hope you like it. I once had a bunch of agents and didn't have to site_kill.py and I manually killed all the pids, except for 1, well, they came back.

  • Nevo David
    Nevo DavidMay 22, 2025

    growth like this is always nice to see. kinda makes me wonder - what keeps stuff going long-term? like, beyond just the early hype?

    • pete
      peteMay 22, 2025

      Great question, Nevo — and that’s the test, isn’t it? I try my best to throw everything I can at it. Been putting 16 hr days, Nevo. I have 28 yrs of PHP, vb, assembly(protected mode x86), under my belt, eyes getting worse, but doing this with GPT is fun as hell, sit in the drivers seat and orchestrate for once, sculpt; different.

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