Portable by default
Agents, profiles, and workflows should move without being rebuilt around a single vendor.
Alex Merced on agentic AI
AI should be open
to inspection.
I build open tools, specifications, and ideas for agentic systems that people can understand, govern, and move.
OPEN AGENTIC SYSTEM● LIVE
CONTRACTS
↓ portable instructionsAGSOAP
ROUTING
↓ governed delegationMERMerced AI
EXECUTION
MagAgentLoroYour harness
MEMORYPOLICYRECORDS
THE THESIS
“The future of agentic AI is not one model, one agent, or one platform. It is replaceable components connected by open contracts.”
SELECTED OPEN WORK
Building the parts.
Defining the seams.
Projects spanning brokerage, execution, memory, governance, and interoperability.
Merced AI
A provider-neutral broker for routing work across agents and model-powered tools.
View repository ↗Loro
An agent harness built around explicit authority, policy, evidence, and durable records.
View repository ↗MagAgent
A practical Python agent framework for composing providers, tools, memory, and workflows.
View repository ↗MagGraph
A graph-shaped memory layer for representing relationships, context, and retrieval paths.
View repository ↗OPEN CONTRACTS
Standards make ecosystems possible.
Open software is strongest when its components share a durable language. These specifications focus on graph-shaped work and portable agent identity.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Open is an operating model.
Authority is explicit
An agent should know what it may do, what requires approval, and where its responsibility ends.
State is inspectable
Memory, context, and execution history should be understandable—not trapped behind a magic interface.
Claims need evidence
Useful autonomy comes from traceable decisions, observable work, and verifiable outcomes.
AM
ABOUT ALEX
Builder, educator,
open-systems advocate.
Alex Merced works across data infrastructure, developer education, and agentic AI. His focus is making complex systems legible—and giving builders open foundations they can adapt, audit, and own.