{
  "id": 16532205,
  "title": "ZENITH: I Was Too Lazy to Manage My AI Agents, So I Built an AI to Manage Them",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/zenith-i-was-too-lazy-to-manage-my-ai-agents-so-i-built-an-ai-to",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-25T23:18:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/iclaldogan/zenith-i-was-too-lazy-to-manage-my-ai-agents-so-i-built-an-ai-to-manage-them-38ji"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I discovered a recurring problem: I would start interesting projects, only to forget what I was doing, why decisions were made, and if the tests still held true. To address this, I created Zenith, an open-source, local-first personal intelligence and agent-orchestration platform. Zenith's memory is not just the language model's memory, but the system's memory. It tracks projects, decisions, unfinished tasks, evidence, source freshness, and execution history. Zenith also provides a workflow for planning, implementing, and independently checking engineering work. The system uses two main ideas: memory should distinguish between claims and facts, and approvals are necessary to confirm success. Misa is the assistant that sits on top of Zenith, capable of using a local model like Gemma 3 4B through Ollama for reasoning. The system aims to be lazy-friendly, allowing users to walk away from work without having to reconstruct their entire life. A demonstration using fictional projects, Harbor and Lighthouse, shows how Zenith remembers past work, coordinates coding agents, verifies their claims, and requires approval before proceeding.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built I have a terrible habit of starting interesting projects. I also have a less interesting habit of coming back to them and asking myself the same three questions: What was I doing? Why did we make that decision? And when did \"all tests pass\" stop being true? The answers were scattered across…",
  "key_points": [
    "Zenith platform manages AI agents for users",
    "Misa assistant uses local model for reasoning",
    "Demonstrated with fictional projects Harbor and Lighthouse"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}