Tailscale

Mission briefing, day zero. One unboxed mini PC. One blank USB stick. One empty slot in the fleet. By end of day this machine must be installed, hardened, answering on the mesh, and able to survive a power cut with nobody home. You have met this node twice already: in Ghost Protocol it ran coding agents around the clock, in Pocket Protocol it took orders from a phone while queuing at the registry office. You have never seen it born. Until now. ...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: the agents are running in the lab, three rooms and one network hop away, and you are standing in a queue with a phone in your hand. The work cannot wait for you to sit back down. The approval blocking it is one tap away. The agent will hold the line until somebody answers, and the somebody is you. I already moved my coding agents off the laptop, in Ghost Protocol . They run on an always-on box in the lab now, unattended, writing code at 3am while the laptop lid is shut. That solved the compute problem and left a smaller, dumber one in its place: the console was still in the lab. ...