Papers
Working papers
Architecture notes and preliminary experiments, with protocols, observations, and stated limitations. Shorter material appears under Notes.
- WP-01
The crew as an owned artifact
Most agent systems treat orchestration as either a library problem or a chat problem. Lab Z treats the unit of value as a crew: a versioned team of agents with explicit roles, tools, and output contracts. This working paper states the thesis, the failure modes it avoids, and the empirical claims we intend to test.
- WP-02
Timed domain crew: Business Coach in about seven minutes
In a single local session on 20 August 2026, authoring a Business Coach crew through first useful answer took about seven minutes with Zero already running. This working paper records the protocol, timings, limits, and reproduction path. It is a workflow and latency experiment, not a scored coaching-quality study.