EPINOIA HORIZON
A previsualisation and prototyping group
Uniting high-end 3D Art Design & Cinematic Animation with the autonomous intelligence of the Merlin Agent Harness—a cybernetic orchestrator that transforms speculative narratives into spatial topologies, skeletal kinematic rigs, and monolithic quartz optical prototypes.
EPINOIA HORIZON
A previsualisation and prototyping group
3D ART DESIGN & ANIMATION
Real-time Procedural Geometry, Kinematic Rigging & Dynamic Simulation
The Epinoia Horizon 3D laboratory engineers cinematic digital worlds: from organic procedural deformers and articulated robotic kinematics to high-refraction quartz optics orchestrated in real-time.
Animation & Shader Rig
Fine-tune morphological deformation velocity and studio illumination temperatures.
Delegate automated topology morphing and vertex reorganization to Merlin Harness.
MERLIN AGENT HARNESS
Arcane Cybernetics & Autonomous Multi-Agent Previsualisation Engine
Inspired by modular cognitive harness architectures, Merlin Agent executes recursive reasoning loops: deconstructing creative scripts into spatial DAG hierarchies, validating kinematic skeletal thresholds, and triggering real-time photometric rendering passes.
01. Persistent Memory
MEMORY.md holds world facts, USER.md holds who you are — FIFO-bounded so context never bloats. Every past session is FTS5-searchable from SQLite.
02. Skills It Writes Itself
Finish a task once — /learn distills the procedure into an executable SKILL.md package that loads into every future session automatically.
03. Full-Screen TUI Telemetry
Terminal-native docked layout: scrollable transcript, tool-call cards, and a live telemetry bar — context gauge, stream health, latency, token flow.
04. Any Provider + Gateway
13 built-in providers plus custom for any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Gateway on :8642 bridges Telegram, Discord, Slack, cron & subagents.
RUN THE REAL HARNESS
Terminal-native • MIT licensed • no accounts, no telemetry, no lock-in
The cognitive console below is a live demo of the loop. The real harness installs in one line, runs entirely on your machine, and speaks OpenAI-compatible API on :8642.
The setup wizard runs a live connection test against your real endpoint before saving anything.
API keys are masked on entry and stored in MERLIN_HOME/.env — never in config.yaml.
Home lives at %LOCALAPPDATA%\merlin (Windows native) or
~/.merlin (Linux/macOS/WSL2) — memory, skills, sessions, and trajectories
in plain files you own. Stuck on PATH after install? merlin doctor self-repairs.
EVERYTHING YOU CAN TYPE
Shell commands for daily driving, slash commands inside the chat, and keys that control the TUI.
The three tables below mirror the shipped CLI surface — pull them fresh whenever the commands evolve.
merlin
Launch the full-screen interactive TUI. First run guides you through setup automatically. This is where you'll live.
merlin chat [--classic]
Same chat, choose your interface — full-screen TUI (default) or the classic inline terminal.
merlin setup
Interactive wizard: provider, model, base URL, masked API key, live connection test. Safe to re-run any time.
merlin doctor
One command, full health check: repairs the merlin command (Windows non-admin PATH), then live-tests your provider connection and tells you exactly what to fix.
merlin model [name] [-p provider]
View or switch the active model/provider without opening a chat.
merlin memory
Inspect the persistent MEMORY.md and USER.md files and their character budgets.
merlin skills
List every loaded skill — bundled ones plus the ones the agent taught itself.
merlin gateway [--port 8642]
Start the OpenAI-compatible API server + cron scheduler. Point any client at http://localhost:8642/v1.
merlin cron
List scheduled background automations.
merlin tools
Show the registered toolsets (terminal, file, web, memory, skills, code execution…).
/help
List every command below — you never have to memorize this page.
/model [name] · /provider [name]
Switch model or provider mid-conversation, on the fly.
/memory
See what the agent remembers about the world and about you.
/skills · /learn name description
Browse loaded skills, or have the agent author a new one from the current session.
/sessions · /search query
List past sessions and full-text search every message you've ever exchanged (SQLite FTS5).
/tools
Inspect the active toolsets available to the agent.
/copy [n] · /export
Copy the last reply to clipboard, or export the session trajectory (ShareGPT format) for training.
Enter
Send the message.
Esc
Cancel the running turn.
Ctrl+C
Quit the session (memory is preserved automatically).
Ctrl+L
Clear the transcript view.
Ctrl+Y / Ctrl+P
Copy the last reply / copy the input line to the clipboard.
MERLIN AGENT HARNESS TERMINAL
Autonomous Loop: Thought → Action → Spatial Observation → Synthesis
PREVIS & CREATIVE ARCHIVES
Curated archive of speculative spatial prototypes, high-refraction optical plaques, and cinematic motion tests engineered by Epinoia Horizon.
Bionic Gait & Motion Rigging
Dynamic skeletal rigging for biomechanical characters with adaptive muscle deformation optimized for LED volume virtual production.
Subsurface Circuit Lithography
Nanometer 3D PCB routing etched inside synthetic optical quartz crystal pyramids for glasses-free volumetric projection plaques.
Virtual Cinematography Engine
Real-time lighting continuity solver, anamorphic optical aberration simulation, and autonomous drone camera paths driven by Merlin.
CIRCUIT WAVEFORM ANALYZER
Real-time oscilloscope monitoring quartz optic bus frequency and harmonic crystal dispersion feeding into Merlin Agent Harness.
COMMISSION 3D ART & PREVIS
Submit your previsualisation specifications, 3D character briefs, or custom Merlin Agent pipeline integrations.