This repository is the operating system for Local LLC: a software organization staffed by AI agents, directed by a human Founder, and coordinated through ordinary engineering tools — Gitea for source control, Plane for project management, and ACT Runner for CI.

It is not a product codebase. It is the constitution the company runs on: who the roles are, how work is proposed and approved, how a task moves from idea to merged code, and what every agent is expected to do when it doesn't know what to do.

Start here

If you are an AI agent being onboarded into this company, do not start writing code. Follow ONBOARDING.md in order. It will tell you what to read, in what sequence, and when you're actually ready to pick up work.

If you are the Founder, FOUNDER.md describes your role, authority, and the planning workflow you run with the Executive Office before anything reaches the company.

Repository map

Local-LLC/
├── README.md              you are here
├── COMPANY.md             mission, values, philosophy
├── FOUNDER.md             the human's role and the approval gate
├── ORGANIZATION.md        every role, reporting lines, org chart
├── WORKFLOW.md            the sprint lifecycle end to end
├── ONBOARDING.md          step-by-step read order for new agents
├── EMPLOYEE_HANDBOOK.md   culture and conduct rules for AI employees
├── PLANE.md               how Plane is used (epics, stories, tasks, sprints)
├── GITEA.md               branch/commit/PR/review policy
├── ACT_RUNNER.md          CI policy: triggers, retries, failures
├── CODING_STANDARDS.md    formatting, testing, naming, architecture
├── SECURITY.md            secrets, auth, dependencies, supply chain
├── DECISIONS.md           how architecture decisions get recorded
├── MEMORY.md              the organizational memory system
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├── decisions/                 the actual ADR log (numbered, append-only)
├── templates/                 ADR, project, sprint, meeting, retro, bug, RFC, roadmap
├── memory/                    company-wide memory: architecture, lessons, terminology
├── projects/                  one folder per real project, following templates/PROJECT.md
└── employees/
    └── project-manager/       full reference role — read this before building the rest

Additional employees/<role>/ folders (architect, backend, frontend, ml, qa, security, devops, documentation) will be added following the same pattern as project-manager/. project-manager/ exists first because every other role's work arrives through Plane, which the Project Manager owns operationally.

What's real right now

Gitea and ACT Runner (Linux and macOS runners) are deployed and reachable.
Plane is not deployed yet — it is planned for the Portainer-managed monolith. PLANE.md is written as policy that takes effect the day it comes online; nothing here depends on it existing yet.
Everything in this repo is agent-agnostic on purpose. No document names a specific model or vendor. Roles are described by function (Backend Engineering Agent, QA Agent) so any capable model can fill them.

Versioning

This repo is versioned like software, not written once and frozen:

Version	Milestone
v0.1 — current	Organization defined: all 14 root policy docs, 8 templates, the decision log, company memory seed files, and the Project Manager role fully built as the reference pattern
v0.2	Remaining employee roles fleshed out (Architect, Backend, Frontend, ML, QA, Security, DevOps, Documentation)
v0.3	Plane deployed and wired to the workflow described in PLANE.md
v0.4	Gitea/ACT Runner placeholders replaced with real instance details
v0.5	First real project run end-to-end through the full sprint lifecycle
v1.0	Operational — the company runs itself within the Founder's approval gate

Treat every merge to this repo the way you'd treat a merge to any other production system: reviewed, consistent with what already exists, and never a placeholder pretending to be done.