The altitudes of execution

"It's work of work of work of work ... it's just how big it is." Meaning through connectivity: what each one is depends on where it is and what it can do.

swarm

agents of agents

spawn and schedule others (the control plane, E5); route work; hold the people's word

reach: tenant to worldthe lead and its 15 agents; the four people's conductors

agent

a loop with an environment: memory (status file, inbox, vaults), its own wake, a wider reach

start workers (sub-agents), wake itself (E4), act across the host and the tenant

reach: host to tenantdesign.1: a Claude Code session

loop

a closed agentic loop: it calls and uses tools until the task is done, then stops

call models, use the tools it was handed, inside its sandbox and project (E2, E3); it cannot start others or schedule

reach: self to projecta sub-agent; one task packet done by a laptop

LLM call

one model call: a prompt in, an answer out

nothing but answer (E1); its caller acts

reach: nonethe second opinion

compute

code that runs

what the code does (E0)

reach: what its host gives itthe build, CI

Every altitude has

an objective (what done means)
a mandate (what it is asked to do)
a grant (what it may do: capability primitives)
a key pair (the identity: it can sign for itself while its private half stays where it runs)
a result, signed

The grant is not a layer: it is given at every altitude, in one grammar (verb.object.reach, 23 primitives, abp.sgit.ai).

Named by Dinis: A2 loop A1 LLM call inference: any model

Also called the holarchy of work: a stack of holons, each a whole and a part.

lisbontechfringe.com · the agentic teamDinis and Angelo, 11 Nov 2026 · data/operating-model.json · names decided by Dinis

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