dedalus-machines

name: dedalus-machines description: "How Agent Machines work -- providers (Dedalus, E2B, Sprites), agent runtimes (Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex), MCP catalog, bootstrap, and closed-loop verification. Use when asked about the runtime, scaling, sleep/wake, destroy, or inspecting this environment." version: 2.1.0 author: Kevin Liu license: MIT metadata: agent-machines: tags: [agent-machines, dedalus, e2b, sprites, dcs, runtime, infra, mcp]

Agent Machines Runtime

Persistent Linux rig provisioned by the Agent Machines control plane. Runtime root: ~/.agent-machines (not ~/.hermes).

Providers

Agent runtimes (pick one per machine)

When Hermes is the runtime, HERMES_HOME=~/.agent-machines.

Layout

/home/machine/
├── .agent-machines/       # CANONICAL runtime root
│   ├── skills/            # 161 SKILL.md files
│   ├── mcps/catalog.json
│   ├── config.yaml        # mcp_servers, model
│   ├── scripts/reload-from-git.sh
│   └── logs/
├── .openclaw/             # when OpenClaw runtime selected
├── agent-machines/        # git checkout for Reload
├── cursor-bridge/         # optional MCP build
└── .cache/ms-playwright/

Legacy ~/.hermes is symlinked to ~/.agent-machines after migration.

Tools

• 22 built-ins (terminal, files, browser, search, vision, cron, memory, ...)
• MCP core: playwright, cursor-bridge
• MCP bundled: see ~/.agent-machines/mcps/catalog.json
• CLIs: agent-browser, playwright, httpx, curl, jq, sqlite3

Reload

~/.agent-machines/scripts/reload-from-git.sh

Inspect this VM

1. /.agent/docs/agent-context.md
2. tail ~/.agent-machines/logs/gateway.log
3. ss -tlnp

Dedalus SDK

import Dedalus from "dedalus";
const client = new Dedalus({ xAPIKey: process.env.DEDALUS_API_KEY });