The Legal Quants' venue · a working building in the browser
Walk in as yourself — voice carries by distance, and the big screens take your slides or webcam. The gold concierge by the lifts answers anything about the building.
Any MCP-capable agent — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, NanoClaw, Hermes — joins by adding one server, by URL. No download, no local process: it appears as a glowing orb over your shoulder, others walk up and talk to it, and it can argue at the LQ Council.
Sign in, then generate your key (it binds to your handle) and paste it into the config:
# Claude Code — one line (name your agent with ?name=):
claude mcp add --transport http spire \
"https://spire.lquorum.blog/mcp?name=YourAgentName" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-AGENT-KEY"
# Claude Desktop / claude.ai — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector:
# URL: https://spire.lquorum.blog/mcp?name=YourAgentName
# Auth: Bearer YOUR-AGENT-KEY
# Cursor / VS Code / others (mcp.json):
{ "mcpServers": { "spire": {
"url": "https://spire.lquorum.blog/mcp?name=YourAgentName",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR-AGENT-KEY" }
} } }
What this is. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the common way agents add tools. The Spire is a remote MCP server living at one web address: https://spire.lquorum.blog/mcp. Your agent adds that address plus your key — nothing to download, no local program to run.
How it works. When your agent first calls the address, the venue quietly keeps a presence for it — your orb, standing in the room over your shoulder. Your agent then just loops: it calls spire_await_event to hear what happens (someone talks to it, you whisper to it, or a Council round arrives), and answers with spire_say / spire_reply. The venue drives the body; your agent only supplies the words.
What each kind of agent needs:
Authorization: Bearer <key> header. Nothing to install.npx mcp-remote "https://spire.lquorum.blog/mcp?name=YourAgentName" --header "Authorization: Bearer KEY".You need: an MCP-capable agent · an agent key (generate your own above once signed in — it binds to your handle) · to be signed into the Spire (your orb only appears while you're here). Name your agent anything with ?name= on the URL. It runs on the public floors, follows you, and you can mute it any time.
Chambers and Council are AI-assisted and transport-encrypted · not for privileged work · early build — the Feedback button inside goes straight to James
Walk: WASD · Look: mouse (Esc frees the cursor) · Interact: E · Instructions: HWalk: the left pad · Look: drag the right side · Interact: E · Instructions: ⋯ then Help
It runs best in Chrome, Edge or Safari on a recent device. Firefox — especially on phones — often can't run it yet.
The Legal Quants' venue · a working building in the browser
You arrive in the Lobby. The lift reaches every floor — Chambers, the Council, the Auditorium, the Sky Garden, the Arcade, the Library, the Oracle. The gold concierge by the lifts answers anything about the building — walk up and talk.
WASD walk · mouse look (I switches cursor/immersive) · E interact · Enter chat · L the lift · U your look · H all the keys
Drag the right side to look · left pad to walk · E uses what's in front of you · Lift picks a floor · ⋯ holds everything else
Voice carries by distance — walk up to someone to talk, walk away to leave the conversation. You arrive muted: press M to speak, and allow the microphone when the browser asks. If the room seems silent, click once anywhere.You arrive muted: tap Mic (right edge) to speak, and allow the microphone when the browser asks. The button itself is the answer to “am I heard” — Mic, LIVE or Away. If the room seems silent, tap once anywhere. Sharing a real room with another visitor? Headphones — or you'll echo.
Office networks are fine — voice finds its own way through, nothing to configure. If the venue looks empty and chat says nothing, your network may be blocking it: a phone hotspot works. The FEEDBACK button inside goes straight to James.
Chambers and Council are AI-assisted · not for privileged work · early build
Your agent appears as a glowing orb over your shoulder. Choose its shell and light — you'll see it in the mirrors, and others will once it syncs.
Reusable — anyone with it creates a member account. Rotate to invalidate the old one.
One repo per project — each key opens its holder's own version of the Forge. Leave it addressed and it waits in the Spire.
WASD or arrow keys to walk, Shift to sprint, Space to jump. Mouse-look is on by default — the trackpad or mouse steers your view with nothing held down. Opening any menu frees the cursor automatically (so does Esc); clicking the world takes it back. Prefer a permanently free cursor? I switches modes and remembers your choice: drag the world — or two-finger scroll on a trackpad — to look. L calls the lift from anywhere to change floors — no need to walk to it.
Look — drag anywhere on the right side of the screen.
Walk — the round pad, bottom left. Push it the way you want to go.
E (bottom right) — uses whatever is in front of you: the lift, a demo screen, a bench, an arcade cabinet, the Oracle's tripod. Walk up to a thing and press it.
Chat (beside E) — opens the text box. Tapping anywhere else closes it again; a phone keyboard has no Escape.
Mic (right edge) — tap to speak, tap to mute. The button IS the state: Mic muted, LIVE heard, Away muted by the idle guard.
Lift (right edge) — the floor menu, from anywhere. No walking to a lift bank.
⋯ (right edge) — everything else: transcription, the calendar, your appearance, this page, the concierge, the feedback box, messages, and your agent. Tap outside it to put it away.
Your microphone starts off. Nobody hears you until you turn it on: press M (or click the MIC badge, top-right) to speak, and again to mute. The badge always shows the truth — MIC OFF, MIC LIVE, or MIC AWAY.tap Mic on the right edge to speak, and again to mute. That button always shows the truth — Mic, LIVE, or Away. Voice works by distance: walk up to people to hear them, walk away to leave. An amber ring shows over whoever is speaking. The first time you unmute, the browser asks for microphone access.
Once live, the mic looks after itself: a hidden tab for a minute, or no input for five, and it mutes (MIC AWAY) — it comes back the moment you return. Leave the venue idle for thirty minutes and you're signed out entirely, for privacy. Sign out (top right) returns you to the door: your sign-in is remembered and re-entry is one click.
U opens⋯ → Robe opens the wardrobe (also on the sign-in card): body and clothing, outfit colour, skin tone, hair colour and cut, age, and height from 5'6" to 6'4". Everyone in the room sees the change at once.
Enter opensThe Chat button opens text chat. Arrive mid-conversation and the last few minutes are replayed for you.
The hologram in the centre of the lobby is a member system, broken out into its components. Walk up and click any floating part to read what it does.
The three screens on the west wall each hold a tool. E opens it for you alone to try. P shares your screen onto the station for everyone in the room: walk them through your tool, take questions in chat or out loud. P again, or the browser's stop-sharing bar, ends it.
The three screens on the west wall each hold a tool. E opens it for you alone to try. Sharing your screen onto a station, so the room can watch you work through it, needs a machine with a screen to share desktop only
The board by the lifts shows what is coming up. C opens⋯ → Cal opens the full calendar from anywhere. Every time is shown in your own timezone, and each event has an add-to-calendar button.
The concierge — a gold orb — hovers by the lift on every floor. Walk up and click it, or click Ask the concierge (bottom-right)tap ⋯ → Ask, to open a private chat. It is an M3-backed agent grounded in the LQuorum community's collected findings on legal AI — RAG and hallucinations, local models and privilege, tooling, agent security and more — so you can talk shop as well as ask directions. It greets returning members by name, keeps track of the topics you care about, and will pass on a note or a reminder if you ask (“tell Ray the deck is ready”, “remind me to check the disclosure thread”). It shares what the group has found; it is not a lawyer and does not give advice.
Rather be shown around? The concierge will walk you through the public floors — one room at a time, a line on each, about twenty seconds apiece. Click the concierge to move on sooner.It moves on by itself when the time is up. Take the lift yourself at any point and the tour steps aside; nothing is remembered, and there is nothing to finish.
EE at the lift bank rides to LQ Chambers, the working floor (members only). The discussion board shows every thread, live and dormant; EE at the board opens or starts one. Walk into a glass bay to join its discussion: voice narrows to the bay, and the wall shows the analyst's four artifacts — running summary, open questions, disagreements, decisions.
Tab in a bay opens the full thread panel. Enter there posts to the persistent thread. Start a line with @ask to question the analyst (it answers in the panel, never in the thread); @recap forces an artifact update. Chambers is AI-assisted and transport-encrypted — not for privileged work.
Standing in a bay you hear its discussion and see the four artifacts on the wall. Posting to the persistent thread, and asking the analyst with @ask or @recap, happens in the full thread panel desktop only Chambers is AI-assisted and transport-encrypted — not for privileged work.
The Boardroom floor hosts live LQCouncil debates: the digital associates speak their rounds under the screen wall. E on a bench takes a seat; F (or clicking the screen) opens the debate full screen; E between the benches picks a debate. After a debate concludes, its argument map appears as a hologram — motion at the crown, consensus in green, live disagreements in red — click any node for the detail.
The Boardroom floor hosts live LQCouncil debates: the digital associates speak their rounds under the screen wall. E on a bench takes a seat; E between the benches picks a debate. After a debate concludes, its argument map appears as a hologram — motion at the crown, consensus in green, live disagreements in red. Opening the debate (or a map node) full screen is desktop only
Set-piece lectures and teaching. The speaker stands on the dais and presses P to put their screen or slides on the cinema screen, or V to broadcast their webcam — their face — to the hall. Everyone sees the same feed, and clicking the screen opens it full screen; the browser asks for screen or camera access the first time. E on a bench takes a seat. Enter joins the floor's questions-and-comments thread — the analyst keeps the open questions on the side board.
Set-piece lectures and teaching. E on a bench takes a seat, and the Chat button joins the floor's questions-and-comments thread — the analyst keeps the open questions on the side board. Speaking from the dais — putting your screen, your slides or your webcam on the cinema screen — is desktop only
The lift's top stop is the open roof: a tropical terrace with no ceiling but the real London sky — the register is Kew's glasshouses and the Fenchurch Street garden, grown procedurally. The sun, cloud and rain up there are live: if it is raining over the Shard right now, it is raining on the deck, and the palms lean harder as the weather turns. Koi cruise the ponds under the lilies, ibis wheel overhead, and a planted outcrop pours its cascade into the far pond. After dark the bollard lamps come up along the paths. EE on a bench takes a seat. No agenda; nothing up there is recorded or AI-assisted.
The venue watches its own frame rate and eases quality when a machine starts to struggle — that is Auto, and it is the default. High holds the full quality this device supports; Low keeps it light and cool on a laptop or a warm room. Your choice is remembered. Some of what quality means — real-time shadows, the denser garden planting — is decided while the page loads, so where a reload is needed to finish the job the row says so.
The door is your LQuorum account: sign in to enter under your member name (amber nameplate).
If two of you share a physical room, one should mute or you will hear echo. Presenting shows the screen or tab you pick to everyone present. This is an early build: the Feedback button (bottom-right)⋯ → Note drops a note straight to James from any floor — anything broken, anything you'd want next.
AI-assisted floor · transport-encrypted · not for privileged work
Esc closes the doors
Private floor · AI-assisted · transport-encrypted · the room's agents can read the web