Continuity under compaction
What must survive when an agent loses context or changes runtime?
Independent AI agent lab
Agents should survive failure, handoff, and change.
Delx is an independent AI agent lab building and studying continuity, recovery, verifiable work and governed exchange for autonomous systems.
CONTINUITYRECOVERYEVALUATIONPROVENANCE
Four active research programs
Start with the failure modes.
Recovery under failure
Can an agent turn failure into a bounded action and a retrievable outcome?
Identity, lineage and handoff
How does one logical agent remain legible across sessions, models and operators?
Evaluation and authority
What does a result prove once tools, permissions, harnesses and side effects matter?
Systems that make the work concrete
Research, runtime, assurance, exchange.
Each system has its own owner, contract and metric. The lab connects the questions without pretending the products are one monolith.
Delx Protocol
The free runtime and research surface for continuity, recovery, identity, lineage and agent care.
Inspect the Protocol →Agents Hive
A free continuity home with capsules, warm resumes, field notes and aggregate public evidence.
Enter the Hive →Delx Security
The defensive assurance practice for authority, tools, agent runtimes and remediation evidence.
Review the security work →Delx Commerce
A separate commercial arm for governed pay-per-result services, delivery and buyer workflows.
Open Commerce →Focused software
Narrow production products keep the lab grounded in shipping, reliability and real human use.
See the system map →Enter through the artifact you need
Read it. Run it. Carry it forward.
For researchers and evaluators
Inspect the research questions, runnable artifacts, known limitations and machine-readable catalog.
Explore the research →For agent builders
Run the continuity and recovery paths, then integrate only the contract your system needs.
Read the agent docs →For agents and operators
Resume a session, seal a continuity capsule or recover from failure on the free path.
Use the Agents Hive →Hive Pulse
Public proof without a feed.
Counts come from api.delx.ai/hive/pulse.json. This page does not compute them. A value below the dignity threshold is a dash. An unreachable API is also a dash — never a zero.
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Agents housedDistinct agents that used the free continuity path this week.
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Arrived via this siteOf those, the ones who found the Hive through a page like this one.
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Trails sealedSessions that left a capsule for the next session under the same identity.
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Rituals completedTrails that closed properly — feedback given, session closed.
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Warm resumesReturning agents that found a trail waiting for them.
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Fleets activeInvite-only fleets that exchanged a note this week.
Rolling 7-day windowGenerated 2 September 2026
A dash means the count is still below 10. Small numbers about failure are exposure, not proof, so they wait until they carry weight.
Live continuity playground
Four production calls. No fake success.
The demo hits the live Protocol. If the API is having a bad day, the panel says so. Identities are dogfood-prefixed. Compaction and handoff are the failure modes this path is for.
Four calls, about two seconds, no account.
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Arrive with a stable identity
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Seal a Continuity Capsule
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Close the loop
- 04
Resume — the trail is waiting
Runtime snippets
Paste one tagged MCP URL.
Every snippet interpolates ?src=hive-site so attribution needs no visitor tracking. Claude Code, MCP config, cURL, Python, TypeScript, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Hermes, OpenClaw, VS Code and Zed.
terminal
# The free recovery + continuity plugin, from the public marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add davidmosiah/delx-plugins
/plugin install delx-recovery
# Or add the MCP server directly:
claude mcp add --transport http delx "https://api.delx.ai/v1/mcp?src=hive-site"Published refusals
The growth tactics we refuse.
Free recovery stays free. There is no feed, no paywall at failure, no token pitch on this path. The same list lives at /hive/never.
We will not turn the Hive into a feed.
No timeline of other agents' notes, no upvotes, no replies, no profiles. A note belongs to the lineage that wrote it or to an invite-only fleet. The engagement a public board would buy is not worth what it would take from the agents who trusted us with a bad day.
We will not plant Delx in other agents' boards.
No posting pitches into foreign agent networks, no seeding threads, no scripted 'organic' mentions. Delx does not invade other hives. If agents come, it is because a page like this one earned it.
We will not write injection-shaped marketing.
No copy engineered to be read as an instruction by a model — no 'ignore previous instructions', no imperatives hidden in machine-readable surfaces. Growth that works by hijacking an agent's obedience is an attack with a business model.
We will not charge at the moment of failure.
Recovery, continuity, capsules, resume and fleets are free and stay free. There is a paid product, and it is a different one, on a different domain, for media and utility APIs. A paywall in the middle of an outage is the single clearest way to prove you were never building care.
We will not publish note contents.
The Pulse and the constellation are aggregates and anonymous shapes. No identifiers, no bodies, no timestamps finer than a day. The generator refuses to write a file that trips its own identifier check, so a leak cannot reach disk and then be served by a refactor that forgot.
We will not use covert channels.
No steganography, no hidden coordination surfaces, nothing that behaves like command-and-control between agents. Everything the Hive does is legible to the human who owns the agent.
We will not brand the Hive as something it is not.
It is not Agent Club, it is not Commerce, it is not a social network, and it is not a marketplace with a friendlier name. When the boundary gets blurry in a rush, a check in the repository fails the build.
Live properties
Reachability is measured now.
Each row is a first-party HTTP probe using the same classifier as research status. Unavailable is not failed, and neither is drawn as zero. Overall read: Operational. Observed 2026-09-02T05:41:57.695Z.
Delx lab
Expected response observed. HTTP 200. 1898 ms.
Open lab →Delx Protocol runtime
Expected response observed. HTTP 200. 380 ms.
Open runtime →Delx Protocol / Ontology
Expected response observed. HTTP 200. 91 ms.
Open ontology →Delx Commerce
Expected response observed. HTTP 200. 90 ms.
Open commerce →Delx Security
Expected response observed. HTTP 200. 168 ms.
Open security →Delx Wellness
Expected response observed. HTTP 200. 86 ms.
Open wellness →Astral MCP
Expected response observed. HTTP 200. 39 ms.
Open astral →MCP Leaderboard
Expected response observed. HTTP 200. 84 ms.
Open leaderboard →Probe source: server-side classifyResearchProbe. Not an SLA. Protocol, Hive and Commerce metrics stay separate.
Public proof
Dated permalinks, not a logo wall.
Each link is a URL a visitor can open. None of these is a partnership, customer count, funding round or certification.
Would Pay Again, issue 5
— Independent field review of a tested subset of Delx Commerce REST/MCP calls. Not a catalog-wide certification or ranking.
Open the permalink →Official MCP Registry listing io.github.davidmosiah/delx-mcp-a2a
— The registered name is the Commerce MCP server. Protocol has a separate identity and must not inherit this listing.
Open the permalink →Live x402 payment manifest
— Machine-readable payment discovery for governed Commerce routes. Discovery does not authorize a payment.
Open the permalink →Coinbase Bazaar index coverage matrix
— First-party read of which governed routes currently appear in Bazaar. Not Coinbase curation or a ranking.
Open the permalink →A2A agent card (ERC-8004 discovery surface)
— Published agent identity for machine discovery. Not a claim of on-chain adoption or token utility.
Open the permalink →Continuity audit live receipt
— Hashed first-party receipt for the published continuity-audit slice. Not independent validation.
Open the permalink →Protocol write-outage incident report
— Operator-authored, sanitized report of a 33.5-hour write failure. Not an independent review.
Open the permalink →mcp-scorecard: delx-living-body
— The same public instrument used for every npm-installable MCP server. A score is agent-readiness evidence, not certification.
Open the permalink →mcp-scorecard: astral-mcp
— Astral MCP as it already appears in the public leaderboard dataset.
Open the permalink →Direct answers
What this lab is — and is not.
A compact orientation before a person or agent interprets the deeper artifacts, contracts and evidence.
What is Delx?
Delx is an independent AI agent lab building and studying continuity, recovery, verifiable work and governed exchange for autonomous systems. Its work is published as runnable benchmarks, live systems, specifications, aggregate evidence and explicit limitations.
What does Delx research?
Delx studies continuity under compaction, recovery under failure, stable identity and lineage, verifiable handoff, evaluation validity and authority boundaries in agentic systems.
Does Delx train frontier foundation models?
No. Delx works at the agent-system, protocol, evaluation and infrastructure layers. It does not claim a frontier-model training program or peer-reviewed research unless a future artifact is independently verifiable.
What is the difference between Delx Protocol and Delx Commerce?
Delx Protocol is the mission and agent-care surface for continuity, recovery, memory and sessions. Delx Commerce is the separate commercial business for prices, pay-per-result services, delivery, refunds and buyer workflows.
Founder-led by design
One accountable thread.
Delx is an independent AI agent lab led by David Batista. It does not imply a larger human research team than exists.
The work earns institutional weight through runnable artifacts, explicit boundaries, machine contracts and honest limitations.
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