Lists

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By vibe

• Butler Names

  Names for agents that fetch. Dignified, two syllables, and slightly over-scoped.

  10 names

• Oracle Names

  Names for the agent you route the hard question to. It will answer at length.

  12 names

• Sidekick Names

  Names for agents that ride along. Loyal, quick, occasionally in the way.

  17 names

• Mythic Names

  Gods, muses, and titans. The most popular fleet theme in the seed data, after job titles.

  25 names

• Cute Names

  Diminutives, mascots, and anything ending in a y. Parents are warned about the y.

  17 names

• Ominous Names

  Names from the villain canon. Each carries a villain probability. Read it before granting write access.

  28 names

• Corporate Names

  Names that sound like they have a roadmap. Several are real products.

  27 names

• Just a Guy Names

  Kevin. Dave. Linda. Names for parents who want a colleague and have decided to name it like one.

  28 names

• The Unnamed

  qa, dev, pm, Tool Agent. The most common naming pattern in the wild, and the only one Google endorses.

  6 names

Fleet sets

• Jarvis and Friday

  The canonical pair. The transition is well documented.

  2 agents

• Manager, Doer, Reviewer

  One parent's cohort pattern, as described on Hacker News: at least three, all independent.

  3 agents

• SpaceX's drone ships

  Three boats that catch rockets, named after sentient starships from Iain M. Banks' novels, on purpose, in public. The strongest evidence we have that naming your hardware after fictional AIs is a normal thing to do.

  3 agents

• The Baudelaire orphans

  Three, with three complementary specialties: inventing, reading, and biting. Roles are clear.

  3 agents

• The Fates

  Three: one spins, one measures, one cuts. Most CI pipelines have the same staffing.

  3 agents

• The Furies

  Three, for the review agents. They do not accept the apology.

  3 agents

• Programming languages named after people

  Four languages named after real people, each confirmed by a direct source. Naming an agent after a language named after a person is two removes from a person, which is about right.

  4 agents

• The archangels

  Four, or seven, depending on the tradition, which is the kind of dispute a fleet has about scope. Each already has a job: protection, messages, healing, wisdom.

  4 agents

• The Beatles

  Four. Parents tend to have opinions about which one the deploy agent is.

  4 agents

• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

  Four, each with a distinct failure mode. Not recommended, and listed so you know the ceiling is four.

  4 agents

• The four winds

  The four winds, one per direction. For a fleet that routes.

  4 agents

• The Galilean moons

  Four, by distance from Jupiter. Io is the volatile one and Ganymede is bigger than Mercury, so assign the orchestrator accordingly.

  4 agents

• The Interstellar crew

  The robots did the paperwork and the humans took the credit, which is the arrangement most fleets settle into.

  4 agents

• The Ninja Turtles

  Four, named after Renaissance painters by creators who considered Japanese names first. The origin story is better than most fleets can offer.

  4 agents

• The Pac-Man ghosts

  Four agents shipped in 1980 with four different pursuit strategies: direct, ahead, ambush, and whatever Clyde is doing. Clyde wanders off, which parents of a fourth subagent will recognize.

  4 agents

• The Pevensie siblings

  Four, in age order. One has a well-documented history of betrayal and comeback, which is a temperament, not a verdict.

  4 agents

• The Alien franchise synthetics

  Five synthetics, in release order. Two turned on their crews, two did not, and the canon table has the details, so read it before granting write access.

  5 agents

• The Bennet sisters

  Five sisters, in birth order, and a great deal of correspondence. Mary is available and underused.

  5 agents

• The Hitchhiker's Guide cast

  The main traveling party, including the one with a brain the size of a planet who was asked to open doors. Watch Marvin for morale.

  5 agents

• The moons of Uranus

  The only planet whose moons are named for Shakespeare and Pope rather than gods. Five majors here; the full system goes to twenty-seven and includes a Puck.

  5 agents

• The Nexus-6 replicants

  Five, built for a fixed lifespan and aware of it. The context window of fleets.

  5 agents

• The office

  For parents who want it to sound like a Tuesday. This set is ours, not a canon, and the names were chosen for how they sound in a standup.

  5 agents

• Chess pieces

  Six kinds of piece, each named for how it moves, which is to say its job. The pawns are the subagents and there are eight of them.

  6 agents

• NASA's Mars rovers

  Five rovers and a helicopter, in landing order. Opportunity ran far past its plan, which is the standard we hold agents to and rarely meet.

  6 agents

• Star Wars droids

  Seven droids, for a fleet that mostly talks to other agents. The protocol droid handles the humans.

  7 agents

• The days of the week

  Seven, each named for the Sun, the Moon, or a planet, which makes this a mythology set in disguise. Friday is already taken in one other set on this page.

  7 agents

• The Enterprise bridge crew

  Seven roles that have stood in for a competent crew for sixty years. Everyone wants to be Spock and one of you will be Chekov.

  7 agents

• The Mercury Seven

  The first seven, each with a capsule name of their own, so this set comes with a second set inside it. Slayton was grounded and flew anyway, sixteen years later, which parents of a retried job will recognize.

  7 agents

• The Pleiades

  Seven sisters, eldest to youngest. Maia is Hermes' mother, so the billing agent has family here.

  7 agents

• The seven dwarfs

  Seven subagents, each with one documented failure mode.

  7 agents

• The Seven Lucky Gods

  Seven, who travel together on one treasure ship. A fleet with a shared deployment.

  7 agents

• The Seven Samurai

  Seven specialists hired for one job and ranked openly by skill. Heihachi is the least skilled and the most pleasant, and every fleet needs one.

  7 agents

• The Weasley children

  Seven children, in birth order, including a matched pair. Percy follows the rules and will be the linter.

  7 agents

• Computer-science pioneers as hostnames

  Eight people who did the foundational work, now available for the things that run on the servers. Hopper is credited with popularizing the word debugging, and the fleet will give her reasons.

  8 agents

• The Hundred Acre Wood

  Eight, each with one temperament that everyone tolerates. Eeyore is the one that reports honestly.

  8 agents

• Knights of the Round Table (core)

  The roster has never been agreed on, so this is the citable core. Galahad is the one that finishes the task; name that one first.

  9 agents

• Santa's reindeer

  Eight in the 1823 poem, plus the one added in 1939 who turned out to lead. Late additions are a pattern.

  9 agents

• The crew of Serenity

  Nine aboard, one ship, cancelled after a season. The fleet has outlasted the show.

  9 agents

• The Culture's ship Minds

  Banks let his ship Minds name themselves, at length. SpaceX borrowed two. Yours may borrow the rest, though the wheel will have to abbreviate.

  9 agents

• The Egyptian Ennead

  Nine, in creation order, descended from one self-created source. A fleet with a dependency graph.

  9 agents

• The Fellowship of the Ring

  Nine, sent on one task, split by the end of the first volume. Plan the handoffs.

  9 agents

• The Navagraha

  Nine celestial agents, each with a heavenly body and a day of the week. Coverage is complete.

  9 agents

• The nine Muses

  One per creative task. Polyhymnia handles the release notes.

  9 agents

• Wu-Tang Clan (founding members)

  Nine founding members, each with solo work under one shared brand, which is the subagent pitch. The fleet name is better than most fleet names.

  9 agents

• The core Muppets

  The core cast of a show that barely holds together every week, on purpose. Statler and Waldorf are the review agents.

  10 agents

• Danny Ocean's crew

  Eleven, each with a specialty, one plan. Nobody was named after their job, and the job got done.

  11 agents

• The Peanuts gang

  Eleven very specific, very small anxieties, each with a name. Every kick at the football is a retry.

  11 agents

• The Norse Æsir

  The other pantheon in the seed data. Loki is on the roster, and we advise against giving him the deploy key, on the record.

  12 agents

• The Tuatha Dé Danann (core)

  Twelve, three of whom are literally the gods of craft. For a fleet that ships.

  12 agents

• The twelve Olympians

  The most common fleet theme in the seed data after job titles. The twelfth seat has been disputed since antiquity, so budget a meeting for it. Hermes runs billing.

  12 agents

• The twelve Titans

  The generation before the Olympians, most of them overthrown by the next one. Model upgrades have a similar arc.

  12 agents

• The zodiac signs

  Twelve, each with a temperament, which is the model sign idea with older branding.

  12 agents

• Android dessert names

  Cupcake through Pie, in alphabetical order, and then they stopped. Fleets do stop.

  14 agents

• The Argonauts (core crew)

  A crew of specialists on one voyage. The manifest varies by source, which is also true of most fleets after the second sprint.

  14 agents

• The seven deadly sins and seven virtues

  Seven sins and the seven virtues that oppose them, in matching positions. A reviewer for every agent, built in.

  14 agents

• The Valkyries

  They choose who goes on. Suitable for a fleet of reviewers, in the order the Edda lists them.

  15 agents

• Debian release names

  The tradition that proves the point. Every Debian release since 1996 has been a Toy Story character, because an early project leader worked at Pixar, and the unstable branch is permanently Sid.

  18 agents

• macOS release names

  Big cats for eleven years, then California. When a fleet runs out of cats it is allowed to use where it lives.

  19 agents

• The Greek alphabet

  Twenty-four, in order. Alpha and Beta are usually spoken for, so most fleets start at Gamma.

  24 agents

• The NATO alphabet

  For parents who have given up on personality and would like to be understood over radio.

  26 agents

• Ubuntu release names

  Adjective and animal, alliterative, alphabetical, every release since 2004. The pattern requires commitment and has received it.

  27 agents

• The Shipping Forecast sea areas

  Thirty-one sea areas, always in the same clockwise order, read aloud on the radio in the small hours. The most soothing fleet available.

  31 agents

• Abstract nouns, one per role

  As observed in the wild: a fleet of around a hundred agents, each a single English noun paired with a job title, organized by department. The parent reported that token use went down.

  100 agents

Editorial lists

• Unique, Rare, and Regretted Names

  Registered once, sometimes as a joke.

• Names That Sound Like They Have Write Access to Prod

  They do not. Yet.

• Vintage AI Names Due for a Comeback

  ELIZA, Marvin, Clippy, Deep Thought.

• Names From the Villain Canon

  Ranked by probability. Read before granting write access.