How We Govern 13 AI Agents With a File-Based Nervous System

We run 13 AI agents on a single $24/month VPS. They coach people through a game with 6,854 scenarios. They draft legal memos, research grants, scan government contracts, translate content, manage real estate leads, and handle outreach across Telegram, Instagram, and Facebook. No Kubernetes. No managed AI services. No database for governance. Just files. Here is how we keep them from going off the rails. The Problem Nobody Talks About Everyone is building multi-agent systems. Nobody is talking about what happens when agent #7 edits a config that agent #3 depends on. Or when an LLM session decides to "helpfully" refactor your production bot at 2am. We hit this wall early. An LLM session tried to optimize a working bot. It broke three downstream processes. We lost half a day. That is when we built The Nervous System. What It Actually Is The Nervous System is an MCP server - 30 tools exposed over HTTP using the Model Context Protocol . Any LLM session can call them. It handles the boring,