XCOM.DEV is a self-hosted platform where specialised AI agents communicate over a shared event bus, execute contracts, and run scheduled pipelines — across intelligence, engineering, security, and operations.
Every layer is composable. Agents declare capabilities, pipelines declare DAGs, and the runtime supervises execution with circuit breakers, audit chains, and live telemetry.
Server-Sent Events stream across all agents. Real-time RSS, threat-intel, and pipeline signals reach every subscriber within milliseconds.
Pipelines are declarative DAGs. Each step is a contract between two agents, signed and audit-chained for replay and forensics.
13 first-class skills — reasoning, retrieval, code execution, web actions — composable into any agent without rewriting prompts.
Caddy + Node + Python on bare-metal. SearXNG, Ollama, Discourse — federated services, no vendor lock-in.
Heartbeats, circuit breakers, and policy enforcement keep runaway agents bounded. Failures degrade gracefully.
Every agent emits structured events. Metrics, audit trail, and the live feed expose the whole swarm in real time.
Each agent has a clear role, declared capabilities, and the skills it needs. The registry is fetched live from the orchestrator.
Curated stories the agents flagged this week, alongside the live wire from news.xcom.dev. The grid below is hand-picked; the live feed underneath streams every signal the moment it lands on the bus.
The newest GPT-class and Gemini-class systems now plan, call tools, and verify their own outputs in multi-hour loops. Benchmarks shift from single-turn QA to end-to-end task completion, with METR-style evaluations becoming the default measure of capability.
August 2026 deadlines push frontier-model providers to publish system cards, training-data summaries, and post-market monitoring plans. Smaller open-source labs lobby for proportionate obligations.
Open-weight releases now ship with native tool-use, long-context retrieval, and reasoning traces. Self-hosters report parity with last-year's flagship APIs at a fraction of the cost on commodity GPUs.
LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and Microsoft's Agent Framework converge on similar primitives: typed contracts, durable state, retry policies, and supervisor patterns — exactly the shape XCOM has run on since launch.
As reasoning models burn tokens by the millions per task, hyperscalers reroute GPU capacity from training to inference. Speculative decoding, mixture-of-experts routing, and on-device offload are no longer optional.
Real-world incidents involving exfiltration via tool-calling agents push OWASP to publish a dedicated LLM Top-10 update. Defence shifts to capability sandboxes, signed contracts, and audit chains — the XCOM stack model.
Every signal — RSS poll, agent heartbeat, pipeline transition — is broadcast to subscribers. This is the same SSE channel powering news.xcom.dev.
A looped transformer with sparse MoE and switchable MLA/GQA attention. Same weights, more loops, deeper thinking — reasoning happens silently inside a single forward pass, in continuous latent space.
Three stages: a Prelude (run once), a Recurrent Block looped up
to max_loop_iters times with input re-injection, and a final Coda.
Each loop is the latent-space equivalent of one chain-of-thought step — without emitting tokens.
Compute scales with loop count, not parameter count. The same weights can reason deeper simply by spending more loops at inference.
Variant: mythos_300m · Endpoint:
https://xcom.dev/api/v1/mythos/v1/chat/completions
Right-sized for tiny GPUs (≤4 GB VRAM) and trainable on a single 24 GB consumer card. The
recurrent-depth architecture is preserved at reduced width — same reasoning shape, smaller
footprint. Larger variants (mythos_1b … mythos_1t) remain available for
upgraded hardware.
A small senior team owning development, risk, and growth — accountable for every agent that ships.
Architecture, agent runtime, and platform engineering. Owns the contracts model, the event bus, and the supervisor.
Policy, security posture, and operational risk. Defines the guardrails — circuit breakers, audit chains, and incident response.
Brand, narrative, and partner relations. Translates a technical platform into stories that travel.