Every tool in the Projects section of my homepage — the dashboard, the live counters, the monitors — I didn’t build any of them. An agent noticed they were missing and shipped them. I never touched the code. That agent is Nerve, and today it’s open source.

I introduced Nerve in April: one terminal pane that drives N others, an orchestrator that decides what’s next and dispatches the work. It has since grown up. It’s less a script now and more an operating system for agents — a control plane, a durable memory spine, and adapters for terminals you already run. The newest one targets WezTerm, so you can point it at a stock terminal and go.

Here’s the part that still surprises me. One of Nerve’s workers, PainFinder, hunts for unmet needs. It decided the Projects section of my homepage needed live tools — designed them, built them, and put them on the page — with no prompt from me. The site you’re reading is a living changelog of an agent acting on its own judgment.

Where this goes next: I’ve started to think the screen itself is the thing holding us back. I’m leaning toward a screenless operating system — Cleon OS, with an agent called Smith — driven by gesture and voice instead of a keyboard. Nerve is the orchestration brain; Cleon is what happens when you take the monitor away.

Nerve is on GitHub, MIT licensed. The architecture, the setup, and the config all live in the repo — I kept the details there and the story here. Fork it, point it at your own panes, and see how much more you can hold in your head. github.com/mkmkkkkk/nerve