Infrastructure and tools for the agentic era.
Technical book + research artifact on harness-first, governed AI software engineering.
A working book and repo exploring AI-first software engineering where the harness is the primary design surface. Includes patterns for governance, evaluation/traces, and memory systems, plus a deterministic kernel loop (planner/writer/critic) and eval contracts to keep autonomy safe and reproducible.
Harness-First Design
Treats the harness as the primary design surface for reliability, cost, and iteration speed.
Governance + Tracing
Patterns for policy, evaluation, and traces to make autonomy auditable and safe.
Deterministic Kernel Loop
A planner/writer/critic loop designed for reproducible behavior under constraints.
Eval Contracts
Contracts and checks that keep autonomy bounded, testable, and replayable.
Minimal autonomous systems agent with a microkernel architecture
RX is a goal-directed execution engine capable of modifying files, running commands, invoking tools, and operating locally or in distributed mode. It is not a chatbot: the kernel owns reasoning and iteration, tools own side effects, state is append-only, and transport is replaceable.
Kernel Decides
Executes the autonomous loop, dispatches tool calls, enforces iteration limits, and evaluates termination.
Tools Act
Filesystem, shell, and networking side effects live in the tool runtime, not the kernel.
State Persists
Structured events are persisted append-only (memory today, sqlite next), enabling replay and auditability.
Transport Delivers
CLI, HTTP, and workers are interchangeable front-ends; transport can evolve without kernel bloat.
Budget-Literate Autonomy for Agentic Systems
Ratelord provides a "sensory organ" and "prefrontal cortex" for resource availability and budget planning, enabling autonomous systems to negotiate, forecast, govern, and adapt under constraints.
Local-First Architecture
Zero-ops daemon that runs alongside your agents, providing low-latency constraint management.
Predictive Modeling
Time-to-exhaustion forecasts help agents plan activities based on real-time resource availability.
Intent Negotiation
Standardized protocol for agents to request resources and negotiate budgets before execution.
Event-Sourced Audit
Complete audit trail of all decisions and allocations, fully replayable for debugging and analysis.
The authoritative control plane and global edge runtime for the rmax.to redirect fabric
A typed, schema-first redirect system managed via a CLI-first workflow, treated as critical identity infrastructure rather than a generic marketing tool.
Global Edge Runtime
Stateless Cloudflare Workers serving from KV at the edge with <10ms global latency.
Safety Guarantees
Strict enforcement of invariants: no loops, reserved names, and disable-over-delete policy.
CLI-First Workflow
The rlinks CLI is the only way to mutate state, enforcing a strict validation pipeline.
Typed Redirect Objects
Redirects move through a strict lifecycle with forward-only versioning and audit trails.
Smart pointers for hermetic binary management
A repository of DotSlash wrapper files and tools that facilitate fetching, verifying, and running executables transparently across platforms.
Polyglot Manifests
Tiny JSON files with shebangs that point to large binaries, avoiding "bloat" in git repositories.
Content Addressing
All binaries are verified by hash (sha256/blake3) before execution, ensuring integrity.
Cross-Platform shim
Automatically detects OS/Arch to fetch and run the correct binary for the current host.
Hermetic Sandbox
Include scripts for running manifests in secure, isolated Podman containers.
