What a Chief of Life agent is, and what mine does every morning
I run a Chief of Life agent. It’s a team of AI agents that each look after one part of my life, led by an orchestrator I call Manolin. Every morning the agents report in, and Manolin sends me one short brief with the few things that matter today. The agents can’t send, post or change anything without my OK.
This is the first post in a series. It covers what a Chief of Life agent is and what it can do. Later posts open up each agent.
What is a Chief of Life agent?
A Chief of Life agent is a set of narrow AI agents, each owning one area of your life, that report to a single orchestrator, which decides what deserves your attention.
The name is the job description. A Chief of Life handles everything in my life that isn’t work, so I can show up to work sharper and faster.
What can it do?
Mine has seven agents. Each owns one domain and stays out of the others.
| Agent | What it owns | What it tells me |
|---|---|---|
| Body | Sleep, recovery, training load | Whether today is a day to push, maintain or recover |
| Mind | Focus, learning, reflection | One focus suggestion and what I’m learning |
| Money | Budget, cash flow, portfolio | Categories running over plan, bills due, unusual charges |
| Circle | Family, friends, professional relationships | Occasions coming up, people I’m overdue to reach, decisions that need two adults |
| Home | The house | Maintenance due, open repairs, warranty deadlines |
| Time | Calendar and deadlines | The shape of the day and the best block for focused work |
| Edge | Career and industry | The few industry changes worth acting on this week |
Manolin reads all seven reports and writes the brief. It ranks at most three items as what matters today. Everything else moves to “can wait” or gets dropped.
What does a morning look like?
The agents start at 5:30 AM PT. Five run at once, and the two that depend on the calendar run after them. The brief arrives in my inbox and on Telegram, capped at 300 words.
This morning, October 21, all seven agents reported and the brief landed at 6:25. Its top item linked two agents. Body saw a strong recovery and Time saw an open morning, so Manolin put my hardest work in the first three hours.
That link is the reason to run a team instead of separate apps. My sleep data doesn’t know my calendar, and my calendar doesn’t know how I slept.
What stays in my hands?
The agents propose and I decide. Anything an agent wants to do outside the system waits for my approval: sending an email, changing my calendar, publishing a post. Approvals reach my phone as Approve and Deny buttons on Telegram and expire after 24 hours. This post went through the same path.
The brief also follows a privacy rule. It carries no balances, account numbers or family names. The detail stays in local notes.
What comes next?
Each post in this series takes one agent and opens it up: what it watches, how it decides what to flag, and how it works with the others.
What would you hand to an agent first?