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LearningNemo

How it works

A reasoning CEO that decides how to think before it answers

The CEO agent plans, stress-tests its own plan, decides whether to work alone or assemble a team, executes, reflects, synthesizes, and passes a final safety gate — every time.

The 6-node decision loop

1

Plan

Decompose the task and decide serial vs. swarm.

2

Meta-critique

Stress-test the plan before acting.

3

Execute

Run directly or coordinate specialists.

4

Reflect

Loop back on low confidence.

5

Synthesize

Assemble a single governed deliverable.

6

Safety gate

Final governance + guardrail check.

Reflect loops back to plan whenever confidence is low — the CEO re-plans before it commits.

Decomposition

Serial when simple, a swarm when it isn't

The CEO evaluates each task and chooses the cheapest path that still meets quality — answering directly, or decomposing the work across specialist agents it coordinates.

Serial mode

For tasks the CEO can handle directly, it runs the loop itself — no specialists spawned, minimal overhead.

Swarm mode

For complex work, the CEO decomposes the task, spawns specialists (each inheriting curated knowledge), coordinates them, and reconciles their outputs into one deliverable.

Orchestration is pluggable: LangGraph is the default backbone, with Swarm and Hybrid strategies available, and new strategies added by registering a subclass — no changes to the CEO's core code.

Specialists

Specialists that inherit what they need

When the CEO spawns a specialist, it passes down four pillars of context so the agent starts informed — not from a blank slate — within a managed VRAM budget.

Inference or container

Specialists run in inference mode or as containers, depending on the work.

4-pillar inheritance

Curated knowledge, contracts, and context are handed down at spawn time.

VRAM budgeting

Spawning respects a managed memory budget across the GPU fleet.

The research panel

Evidence specialist, analysts, composer, evaluator, chart planner, and renderers.

Inference

A dual inference path

Local NVIDIA NIM serving powers the CEO and most specialists; an API tier with a multi-provider fallback chain handles the research roles that need very large context windows.

Local NIM tier

Per-role precision routing (FP8 default), TensorRT-LLM-aligned controls, and a VRAM-aware downgrade path keep local inference fast and within budget.

Large-context API tier

Research roles that need very large context windows use API LLMs, with a circuit breaker, retries, and a multi-provider fallback chain.

Governance

The safety gate is part of the loop

Risky actions escalate for human review and oversight relaxes only as the system earns trust — a graduated-autonomy model the program calls "Iron Dome".

Baseline

Maximum oversight; risky actions escalate for human review.

Learned trust

Oversight relaxes as the system demonstrates reliability.

Mature

Earned autonomy within rubric-based, auditable limits.