The Huozi Review
No. 5

A Beta Kickoff Address
内 测 致 辞

Huozi
Beta
Kickoff

A Stable Desk for the Agent Era

活 字 内 测 开 始

Spring · 2026 · 05 · 05
HUOZI English Edition i
Foreword
2026 · 05 · 05

An Address 致 内 测 者

As of today, huozi.app is in beta.

This is the moment the arguments from our last few posts finally land in a shipping product. The shape they all converge on is one thing: a cloud-side text machine for Agents.

FOREWORD ii
Chapter I
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Time Scales 时 间 尺 度

Different things change at different speed.

  • Agents change monthly. A new Claude Code, a new Cursor, a new open-source Open Claw. Opus, Sonnet, somebody else next month.
  • Skills iterate weekly. New prompts, new tools, new MCP servers — rewritten every week.
  • Data & goals change yearly, if that. Customer lists, roadmaps, contracts — genuinely slow.
TIME SCALES · · · 1
Plate I
i

Three Time Scales,
side by side.

slow ↓ time scale ↑ fast Agents change monthly Skills iterate weekly Data & Goals stable for years HUOZI workspace huozi lives here

Huozi holds the slowest layer — beneath agents and skills, an unmoving desktop.

PLATE I 2
Epigraph
iii

Huozi lives at the slowest layer,
so it outlives any particular agent or skill stack.

— On the Slowest Layer

EPIGRAPH · 3
Chapter II
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Plural Agents 分 布 式

Nobody runs just one agent anymore.

Claude Code and Cursor on the laptop, the Claude app on the phone, an on-call agent in Slack, a research agent on cron in CI. Agents are distributed from day one. Pinning data to "some particular local machine" is instantly a problem.

PLURAL AGENTS 4
Plate II
One Tree

One workspace,
many entry points.

Claude Code Cursor Claude App Codex Gemini Open Claw / SDK laptop · phone · web · server · CI MCP / OPENCLAW GATEWAY read · edit · write · grep · glob · history HUOZI workspace files · /__assets__ KV Base · history

Any port, any device — all funnel into the same versioned tree.

PLATE II · 5
Chapter III
iii/vi

The New Office 新 一 代

md / csv / html, the new Office.

i

Word → .mdMarkdown — for words

Word.docx XML, fonts and styles fold back into plain Markdown.

ii

Excel → .csvCSV — for tables

Pull values, computation and presentation apart: CSV / code / HTML.

iii

PowerPoint → .htmlHTML — for pages

The slide cage becomes a diff-able, publishable, linkable page (this one).

Token-friendly for agents, readable to humans, diff-able in git.

NEW OFFICE · · · 6
Chapter IV
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Bit-Exact Dialect 同 款 方 言

Don’t invent a new “Agent document API.”

Claude Code · locallyon the laptop

# the dialect we already speak:
Read(file_path: "notes.md")
Edit(file_path: "data.csv",
     old_string: "…",
     new_string: "…")
Grep(pattern: "TODO")

Huozi · in the cloudbit-exact equivalent

# bit-exact, in the cloud:
huozi_read({ file_path: "notes.md" })
huozi_edit({ file_path: "data.csv",
            old_string: "…",
            new_string: "…" })
huozi_grep({ pattern: "TODO" })

Same schemas, same error codes, same old_string → new_string uniqueness contract.

BIT-EXACT 7
Interlude
Three Anys

Three “anys”, all true at once.

i

Any agentany agent

Claude Code · Cursor · Claude Desktop · your own SDK — all mount the same workspace.

ii

Any deviceany device

Laptop, phone, Slack, CI — three surfaces, one tree.

iii

Any timeany time

Cron jobs, midnight scripts, sudden ideas — anything that speaks HTTP.

— OpenClaw Gateways

THREE ANYS · 8
Chapter V
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Two Editions 两 个 版 本

One dialect, two delivery paths.

Editio Prima

Huozi Cloudhuozi.app · managed

Multi-tenant, runs on our infrastructure. One-click signup, zero ops.

  • Personal & team workspaces
  • Global CDN & content-addressed asset store
  • Default for individuals and teams
Editio Altera

Huozi Edgeself-hosted, open source

Runs on your own Cloudflare account. Data stays in your perimeter.

  • Same MCP tools, same semantics
  • Zero external dependencies
  • For organizations with sovereignty needs

The dialect is the contract; deployment is an implementation detail.

CLOUD & EDGE 9
Chapter VI
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Beta Starts Today 内 测 开 始

What this beta puts in your hands.

  • A cloud-side workspace driven by the dialect Claude Code already speaks.
  • First-class support for md / csv / html; SVG, Mermaid, content-addressed asset store running underneath.
  • Multi-agent · multi-device · always-online — one workspace is enough for collaboration.
  • Cloud opens first; Edge follows.
  • KV Base Access ships next, for structured data between CSV and a real database.
SHIPPING NOW · · · 10
Coda
xi
❦  ·  ❦

The pencil case
changes.
The desk
stays.文 具 盒 一 直 在 变,
桌 子 未 曾 离 开。

❦  ·  ❦
CODA huozi.app xi
Colophon
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