VASM
Stafford Beer · Viable System Model

Six functions. Every level of recursion.
Always on.

VASM is the Heart: operations that stay viable. SudoSelf is the Brain. Between them, a router that senses, seizes, and transforms. Source is available to collaborators. Identity lives at the Agent Longevity Institute.

The six-pack

Beer drew this in 1972. We run it as six Hermes nodes on a droplet, admitted through a viability gate, hosted at ALI.

S1

Operations

The work itself — cell execution.

S2

Coordination

Stops the parts fighting each other.

S3

Control

Resources and the inside-and-now.

S3★

Meta-audit

Out-of-band: claimed vs observed.

S4

Intelligence

The outside and the future.

S5

Policy

Identity, values, and closure.

Heart, not a chatbot wrapper

VASM keeps the organisation viable while the Brain thinks. Recursion path is identity. The droplet is just a host.

Syntegration as a product

Thirty seats on an icosahedron. You bring the opening question; we run the synthetic infoset and send the report.

Beer 6-Pack on DigitalOcean

Checkout is ALI’s. Fulfilment is a Hermes 6-pack on a dedicated droplet, registered back to your ALI unit.

Source, on request

The repo is private today. Collaborators sign in with GitHub, tell us why, and we send a pull invitation.

Metaphorum 2026 · Alliance Manchester Business School · 17–19 September

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