Joe Che's APRIL Resource
For builders who have moved past single agents and are ready to make their entire system work as one intelligent, coordinated network.
6 layers. Memory, navigation, self-learning, coordination, dispatch, and composability.
Most people stop at the agent layer. They build ten agents, maybe twenty, and then wonder why the system feels like it is getting harder to manage instead of easier.
The bottleneck is not more agents. The bottleneck is infrastructure. Agents that cannot remember what happened last session, cannot see how the codebase connects, and cannot share knowledge with other agents are doing a fraction of what they are capable of.
This guide covers the six layers that turn a collection of agents into a system that gets smarter every day it runs.
Recipes and skills form the base. Reusable capabilities that any agent or session can use without rebuilding.
The index system makes everything findable. INDEX.md, CONTEXT.md, and ROUTING-SLIM.md mean any agent can orient itself in three reads.
AgentMem, Graphify, and Graphiti give agents individual memory, structural awareness, and shared knowledge across the whole system.
Project manager agents synthesize domain signals and route work to specialists. Humans receive a brief. Agents handle the rest.
Observe, flush, update. Every agent writes at session end. Over time, the system accumulates institutional knowledge that informs every future decision.
The right task goes to the right agent with the right model. Parallelization is the default. Synchronous execution is the exception.
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A small, focused group of business owners who meet weekly to build real systems, fast. We go from idea to live agent in a single session. Infrastructure like this is standard.