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Mycelium Agent Framework (Preview)
Status: Coming in 2026 – early design subject to change.
Mycelium Agents are private, sovereign, and distributed AI systems that run on infrastructure you control. Instead of sending your data and logic to a centralized AI cloud, agents live inside your own environment and connect over the Mycelium Network.
This page gives a high‑level preview of the framework and how it fits into the rest of Mycelium.
What Are Mycelium Agents?
From the marketing overview:
“Private, Sovereign and Distributed AI You Control.”
Mycelium Agents are designed so that:
- Execution stays local – Models, logic, and memory run on your own hardware.
- Connectivity is peer‑to‑peer – Agents communicate over Mycelium’s encrypted mesh.
- Data remains private – Your datasets, embeddings, and tools stay inside your trust boundary.
- Agents are portable – They can move with you across devices, clusters, and locations.
Design Principles
The Agent Framework is being designed around a few core principles (see Agent Design and Advantages on the main site):
- Inside your environment – Each agent operates entirely within your chosen infrastructure (laptop, homelab, edge node, cluster).
- Mesh connectivity – Agents talk to each other across trusted nodes using Mycelium Network, without central relays.
- Local data access – Agents read and write data locally (file systems, QSFS, databases) without shipping it to a third‑party.
- Zero‑trust posture – Identity, policy, and attestation are enforced continuously.
- Portability – Agents follow your workflows, not a particular cloud provider.
Relationship to the Rest of Mycelium
The Agent Framework is built on top of existing Mycelium components:
- Mycelium Network – Encrypted IPv6 overlay and addressing fabric between nodes.
- Mycelium Cloud / VDC – Kubernetes clusters and virtual data centers hosting compute.
- QSFS / Storage – Quantum‑safe, replicated storage for long‑term data and model artifacts.
- Hosters – Community‑run capacity providing the underlying infrastructure.
Agents are planned to run:
- On your own devices (laptops, workstations, homelabs).
- On edge or datacenter nodes provided by hosters.
- Inside VDCs as part of larger application stacks.
What You Can Expect
While the full technical spec is still evolving, you can expect:
- A runtime for defining and running agents on your nodes.
- A connectivity layer for secure P2P communication between agents.
- A policy model for where agents may run and which data they may access.
- Composability with existing tools – containers, Kubernetes, storage backends, and Mycelium networking.
Timeline and Scope
- Launch window: Agent Framework targeted for H1 2026.
- Preview phase: Before launch, expect design updates, early prototypes, and integration examples.
- Ecosystem: The goal is to make agents first‑class citizens of the wider Mycelium ecosystem.
How to Prepare
Although the Agent Framework itself is not yet released, you can prepare today by using the underlying components:
- Networking: Get familiar with Mycelium Network and how overlay addressing works.
- Compute: Use Mycelium Cloud and VDCs to deploy clusters and workloads.
- Capacity: If you want to run agents on your own or community hardware, explore Hosters.
- Data: Consider how sensitive data will be stored and accessed locally (e.g. QSFS).
See Getting Ready for Agents for a more practical checklist.