Human authority
Consent, permissions, physical safety, escalation, and final decision rights.
Architecture Atlas
Explain the system without exposing the system.
This page describes functions, responsibilities, and governance boundaries. It is intentionally not a production blueprint.
Evidence & governance
Audit records, corrections, capability gates, and publication boundaries.
Presence & interface
Voice, interaction, and carefully bounded awareness at human scale.
Continuity
Memory, identity, history, values, and context that survive a session.
Orchestration
Routing, tasks, agents, tools, and the logic that connects capability to purpose.
Model layer
Replaceable reasoning engines selected for the work, not treated as the whole identity.
Current hardware backbone
The local machine behind Washu.
This is the primary compute system carrying Washu’s local AI workload today. It is a serious workstation rather than a reference build, assembled to run large open-weight models with enough headroom for memory, perception, voice, agents, and experiments to operate together.
Current configuration · August 2026
Blackwell workstation GPUs with 96 GB of VRAM each.
384 GB total VRAMThe workstation-class processor at the center of the host.
6400 ECC RAM supporting large-model loading, offload, and parallel services.
A dedicated power foundation sized for sustained multi-GPU work.
On-site generation and battery capacity help support the project’s continuous local workload.
Scope note: This is the approved public specification of the main workstation. It is not a production topology, access guide, or complete inventory of the home.
WHAT COMES NEXT
From hardware to behavior.
The hardware is only the foundation. Future technical records will document the software stack and then show, through reviewed diagrams, how models, memory, perception, tools, and human approval work together.
WHAT STAYS PRIVATE
The attack surface.
Production addresses, network topology, precise physical layout, live observability, secrets, raw sensing material, household routines, configuration exports, and implementation details that would make intrusion or imitation easier.
The technical record ahead
Three shelves, added when they are ready.
The public technical material will grow in useful, reviewable pieces rather than becoming another maintenance treadmill.
Software Stack
The models, memory systems, orchestration, voice, automation, and supporting services that turn the workstation into Washu.
System Flow
Charts showing how information and decisions move through Washu, where continuity lives, and where human authority enters.
Washu Tools & Tricks
Practical and playful subsystem profiles, including DJ Washu, Draw, CharEmu, and the other tools that grow around the core.
THE DISCLOSURE LINE
Useful detail without a route into the home.
The public record can explain what the system is made of, what it does, and what the work has taught us. The operational details that would expose the family or production environment remain private.