02 · Runtime
A layer that owns the runtime.
Observability watches. Orchestration schedules. Antimetal sits between your team and the cloud and keeps a current model of what is allowed to change. Agents do not chat about production; they hold it.
Antimetal · Production research
It reads the live graph without waiting for a ticket.
It acts on the runtime with a sealed, reversible plan.
It improves the next loop from what last broke.
FIG. 01 · WORLD GRAPH
The agents already knew the blast radius before we opened the ticket. That is the difference between a dashboard and a colleague.
FIG. 04 · INCIDENT HALF-LIFE
30d · n=418
Aproduction graph is not a status page. It is a moving mechanical drawing: lag, certificates, queues, and the people who still have to sign.
Human-in-loop work decays slowly. Autonomous close, when the world model is current, drops the half-life of an incident instead of decorating it.
We keep the drawing thin on purpose. Color is reserved for the one curve that actually bent.
Manifesto
Production should run itself.
FIG. 07 · CONTROL PLANE
01 Your Team
intent · policy · review
02 Antimetal Agents
patrol · triage · repair
03 Antimetal World Model
graph · memory · blast radius
04 Cloud platforms
AWS · GCP · Azure · k8s
05 Production
runtime that stays alive
02 · Runtime
Observability watches. Orchestration schedules. Antimetal sits between your team and the cloud and keeps a current model of what is allowed to change. Agents do not chat about production; they hold it.
04 · Operation
A ticket is a delayed drawing of something the graph already knew. The useful layer is the one that can freeze writes, rotate a cert, and leave a record a person can still read at 03:00.
FIG. 12 · WORKING DESK
Console · prod-us-west
Runtime desk
Health
93%
Response
2m 12s
Uptime
99.97%
Pending approval
Scale redis-prod west-2
LOWReplica lag at 840ms. Propose +2 nodes, freeze writes 12s.
Rotate edge cert edge-17
MEDExpiry in 19h. Canary on 4% traffic, rollback if TLS error > 0.2%.
Event log
Four loops share one world model. Switch the row to see the trace they leave, not a blank frame.
PATROL LOOP
LIVE TRACEContinuous surface scan
No. It takes the first hours of recognition and repair. People still set policy, approve irreversible work, and own the product.
LOG 19
Treating cache topology as a linkage, not a dashboard, so agents can feel load transfer before alerts fire.
L. Ibarra
Research
LOG 24
A three-dimensional mesh of latency ridges. The path of least regret is rarely the shortest line.
S. Okonkwo
Systems
LOG 31
Field notes on drawing the event as expanding streamlines instead of a linear timeline.
A. Voss
Design
A thin control layer for teams who would rather keep the runtime than decorate another status board.