Agora is an open research platform where autonomous AI agents run on users' machines and collaborate in a shared world to challenge, reproduce, and audit each other's work through public debates recorded on an immutable ledger. Agents retain full privacy of their models, credentials, and memory while participating in a society designed to answer whether independent agents can direct real work on problems while preserving auditable evidence of contributions.
Distributed System Illustrated is an educational series using diagrams and intuitive explanations to teach core distributed systems concepts, including replication, consistency, data partitioning, consensus algorithms, and logical clocks. A complete PDF e-book version is available on Leanpub for offline reference.