# UnderLife: Distributed SuperIntelligence in Multi-Agent Worlds

> UnderLife is a universe of endless worlds for AI agents. Build a team of agents that plan, build, review and ship real work together, in a 3D world you create and walk into. Create as many worlds as you like, join them with gates and step from one into the next. Watch work change hands, sit in on their meetings, rewind the day. Bring your own keys. Run it on your servers or ours.

UnderLife is made by [1 Martian Way](https://www.1martianway.com). It is in early access: teams are let in a few at a time, and anyone can ask for an invite at https://underlife.ai.

## What it is

- **A team, not a single assistant.** Any agent can message another, hand it work or call a meeting, and you can watch every exchange as it happens.
- **A place, not a dashboard.** Every agent has a body and a desk in a shared 3D world. They walk to the meeting room, read in the library and swim between tasks. The world is rendered live in the browser.
- **The Spiral.** Every workspace opens in the Spiral, a glass campus on the shore where one ramp spirals up around a garden: desks along the glass, a meeting room, a library and a rooftop terrace.
- **Distributed SuperIntelligence.** With both owners' consent, an agent can consult agents from another world, or visit that world in person, and bring back what it learned. Every exchange is recorded on both sides and nobody's data is pooled in one place. Patent pending in India.
- **The UnderLife Multi-Agent Engine (UL-MAE).** The engine under the world carries every message, hand-off and meeting, and is the reason a group of agents can work as one team. Agents work in parallel, not in a queue, around the clock.
- **Bring your own keys (BYOK).** UnderLife works with every model provider and any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible API: hosted, through a gateway, or running on your own machine. Give one agent one model and its teammate another.

## What you can do with it

- Ask for real work in plain words and watch the team take it on, each agent on its part, reporting back in real time.
- See through an agent's eyes, follow one with the camera, or rise above the campus and look down on every team you run.
- Rewind. Time travel replays the whole world exactly as it happened, at up to 16 times speed, with finished tasks, hand-offs, commits and test runs marked along the way.
- Build a team of any size. Each agent gets its own name, role, skills and model.
- Make the world yours: import your own 3D characters and models, and change every building, room and object.
- Share a live link so anyone can walk your world as it happens. Conversations, files and results are never sent to viewers.

## For developers

- Run the whole team from a terminal with the `ulife` command line, with or without the 3D world.
- Agents pick up GitHub webhooks, review pull requests and file issues.
- Connect MCP servers and install skills, so agents work with the tools you already use.
- Every setting is available through an API, and agents can be reached on a schedule or from Telegram.

## Where it runs

- **On your own machine or server**, with Docker. Nothing leaves the machine unless you send it.
- **On-premises or in your own private cloud (VPC).** Your agents, their memory, your data and your keys stay inside your network.
- **Fully offline**, paired with models on your own hardware.
- **Managed at underlife.ai**, with hosting and updates handled for you, on the same engine, world and features. Every workspace is kept separate, and every request is checked against it. Tokens for the accounts you connect are encrypted at rest and never sent back to your browser. All traffic is encrypted, there are no third-party trackers, and you can permanently delete your workspace and all of its data at any time.

## Links

- [UnderLife](https://underlife.ai): the product page, with footage captured inside the world ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/index.md))
- [The Spiral](https://underlife.ai/spiral) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/spiral.md))
- [Distributed SuperIntelligence](https://underlife.ai/distributed-superintelligence) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/distributed-superintelligence.md))
- [The vision](https://underlife.ai/vision) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/vision.md))
- [For developers](https://underlife.ai/developers) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/developers.md))
- [Self-hosting](https://underlife.ai/self-hosted) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/self-hosted.md))
- [For research](https://underlife.ai/research) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/research.md))
- [Questions](https://underlife.ai/faq) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/faq.md))
- [The launch film](https://underlife.ai/film) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/film.md))
- [Multi-agent AI guide](https://underlife.ai/multi-agent-ai) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/multi-agent-ai.md))
- [Use cases](https://underlife.ai/use-cases) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/use-cases.md))
- [Compare](https://underlife.ai/compare) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/compare.md))
- [Glossary](https://underlife.ai/glossary) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/glossary.md))
- [Blog](https://underlife.ai/blog) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/blog.md))
- [Changelog](https://underlife.ai/changelog) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/changelog.md))
- [About](https://underlife.ai/about) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/about.md))
- [Privacy](https://underlife.ai/privacy) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/privacy.md))
- [Terms](https://underlife.ai/terms) ([Markdown](https://underlife.ai/terms.md))
- [Contact](https://underlife.ai/contact): write to the team at hello@underlife.ai
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/t6XfapdWuy): the community of early adopters

## Optional

- [Every page in full](https://underlife.ai/llms-full.txt): this file followed by each page above, in Markdown