01 | AgentSkin | author | Semantic data reduction for AI agents — an MCP-first system for pruning noisy API responses before they reach the model. |
02 | Grok Build Legion Edition | downstream | xAI Grok Build community fork adding heterogeneous model routing, role-specific agents, independent verification, bounded repair, and provider discovery. |
03 | agent-zero-nvidia-nim | author | NVIDIA NIM chat + embedding provider for Agent Zero with live model discovery and self-hosted endpoint support. |
01 | Invariant | private | Autonomous engineering runtime built around one rule: a builder does not certify its own work. Sandboxed execution, independent verification, repair loops, replay, and release gates. |
02 | micro-cpp-harness | private | Native C++20 coding-agent harness for local open-weight inference, verifier-gated execution, trajectory capture, recovery, and reproducible benchmark qualification. |
03 | Particle | private | Recursive agent runtime with scoped workers, persistent specialists, context isolation, durable goals, recovery, and orchestration state outside the transcript. |
04 | Agent Mode Benchmark Lab | private | Original evaluation program for coding, computer use, interactive products, games, and long-horizon agent work with locked briefs, clean workspaces, provenance, and deterministic scoring. |
05 | Collective | private | Distributed AI control plane with one Scheduler authority, bounded capabilities, exact routing, signed evidence, independent verification, and safe recovery. |
01 | Link2Note | private product | Turns links, videos, PDFs, audio, playlists, and channels into structured notes, transcripts, archives, and files; includes auth, billing, gated workflows, and staged multi-model study/review modes. |
02 | OpenSwitch | private product | OpenAI-compatible marketplace that deterministically routes model + provider by capability, benchmark quality, latency, health, funding state, terms, and cost. |
03 | Chirp | private alpha | Push-to-talk interaction layer for existing AI chats and human channels while preserving the underlying conversation's context, tools, and history. |
Private systems are available by demo or granted repository access where appropriate.
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01 Invariant + Collective — authority, bounded execution, independent proof |
02 micro-cpp + Agent Mode — local inference, traces, controlled qualification, reproducible evals |
01 | Walmart cold chain | Managed time-critical compliance operations where traceability, process discipline, service reliability, and failure recovery were hard requirements. |
02 | Mercedes JIT | Managed just-in-time automotive logistics where sequencing, dependencies, timing, escalation, and recovery directly affected downstream operations. |
03 | mechanism transfer | I learned systems in operations before I learned them in code: route the right resource, bound authority, preserve evidence, verify independently, and recover safely. |
information != authority claimed completion != verified completion model choice != capability proof failure data is part of the result
Shawn Nichols Sr. · Independent Research Engineer — Agents, Evals & Local Inference · @Shawn5cents · agentskin.dev