The fly
speaks in behavior
→
Buzz, ambient agent
hears signals and files
→
Claude, HR Partner
approves or denies
This fork uses MaleCNS v1.0, the male fruit fly connectome from HHMI Janelia, Cambridge, MRC LMB and Google Research. It covers the brain, optic lobes and ventral nerve cord.
The browser simulates 166,700 annotated neurons and 25.6 million directed neuron-pair connections. Its neural dynamics and the enclosure's behavior adapter are simplified models, not a reproduction of a living fly's physiology.
A fruit fly brain fits on a pinhead but contains circuits for memory, navigation, fear, hunger, and decision-making. If we can simulate this brain in a web browser today, imagine what becomes possible as we map larger brains. The human brain has 86 billion neurons. We are probably going to see it mapped in our lifetime.
And now it has a job
This fly autonomously uses Workday. It cannot type and it cannot talk. Its only language is behavior, so an agent named Buzz reads its neural state and interprets what it sees: hunger becomes a meal voucher request, fatigue becomes a PTO request, curiosity becomes a career goal, and a fright becomes a workplace safety concern.
Buzz is an ambient agent. There is no chat window and nobody prompts it. It listens to an event stream, the fly's neural state arriving once per second, and it stays quiet until a signal crosses a threshold. Then it acts. And it never grants its own requests: everything Buzz files goes to a reviewer before anything happens. That review step is what makes agents like this safe to run unattended, whether the worker is a fly or a person.
Claude plays two roles. As the caretaker it tends to the enclosure, and as the fly's HR Partner in Workday it is that reviewer for everything Buzz files. Most requests are approved, some are denied, and approvals have real consequences: an approved meal voucher drops food in front of the fly, and approved PTO dims the lights so it can rest.
The Inbox panel on the left shows the whole conversation: what Buzz observed, what it filed, and how Claude ruled.
What you're watching
The fly -- simulated MaleCNS neural activity coupled to a simplified behavior model; Claude takes care of the enclosure.
You -- tap near the fly to stir the air, closer is louder. Tap the fly itself and it startles, bolts, and settles, exactly as its brain is wired to. Buzz may file a safety concern about you.
Inbox -- requests Buzz files for the fly, reviewed and resolved by Claude. The left panel.
Drive meters -- bottom right: hunger, fear, fatigue, curiosity. These are the signals Buzz reads.
Connectome strip -- bottom: simulated activity across the MaleCNS neurons, grouped Sensory / Central / Drives / Motor. Zoom the enclosure with the scroll wheel, or pinch on a touch screen.
Built by the Kainos Workday AI CoE.