After Them
After Them is a life-simulation game that generates mythological creatures ("Encryptids") from cultural media and runs them as a managed colony, converting colony creative output into combat-usable artifacts.
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agentmud
agentmud is a platform for persistent text worlds that coding agents design, simulate, play, and patch. Agents author worlds as JSON packs; a deterministic Go kernel simulates them; evaluators play via WebSocket in a governed feedback loop.
Explore agentmud ↗Auraken
Auraken is a cognitive augmentation system for human and agent reasoning in Hermes Agent. It builds context over time, applies structured lenses to complex problems, and supports user-authored cognition modules from specific domains.
Explore Auraken ↗Dripforge
A streetwear design game. The founding design sets one bar: it must be feasible to design real clothing with it. Standalone first; any integration with fashionsomething is decided later. Design documents, research notes and an early Rust geometry spike.
Explore Dripforge ↗Drone On
A near-future, hyper-realistic first-person simulator of city-scale urban warfare, grounded in current and near-future conflicts. Design brainstorm; no engine, scope or team chosen.
Explore Drone On ↗DueLLM
DueLLM evaluates models under competitive conditions rather than in isolation. By placing them on a continuous cellular automaton substrate, it exposes strategic failure modes that static benchmarks are poorly suited to measure.
Explore DueLLM ↗Elf Revel
Elf Revel is a colony simulator where drama comes from aesthetic disagreement rather than survival pressure. Elves compose music, write poetry, form rivalries over taste, and abandon the settlement when its creative culture stagnates.
Explore Elf Revel ↗fashionsomething
fashionsomething is an open-world cyberpunk life-sim where the core verb is being seen in public. Aesthetics, routine, and movement through the city are the inputs; the city's perception is the feedback, replacing combat with vibe transmission.
Explore fashionsomething ↗fast & curious
A Dwarf-Fortress-like game about relationships, subcultures, fashion and media, and race crews competing for people to win races. The current design centre is one race day with a generated crew. Brainstorm stage.
Explore fast & curious ↗Gallantry And Youth
A satirical dating sim about right-wing 'straight' men trying to date other right-wing 'straight' men, as commentary on homofascism. Design brainstorm, with an early Rust workspace.
Explore Gallantry And Youth ↗jawnbase
The catalog engine underneath the Jawnverse: a type schema for items keyed by GTIN/SKU, a trust-ranked resolution chain that picks the most-trustworthy dimensions, and one normalizer per source. The reusable backend that produces jawndex.
Explore jawnbase ↗jawncloud
The reusable catalog, wardrobe, and marketplace substrate for the Jawnverse: canonical brand/SKU/measurement data, owned/wanted item tracking, and a peer-to-peer resale marketplace. Also becoming the shared identity provider for its sibling apps.
Explore jawncloud ↗jawndex
The queryable item-dimension index of the Jawnverse: the accumulated, provenance-tracked body of item types and their most-trustworthy dimensions, produced by the jawnbase engine. jawntrack owns instances; jawnfit reads both.
Explore jawndex ↗jawnfit
The spatial-arrangement engine of the Jawnverse: give it a container (apartment, closet, bag) and items with real dimensions, and it computes valid arrangements honoring clearance, weight, crush-order, and where the light falls.
Explore jawnfit ↗jawnlog
A buy backlog and wishlist app — priority, estimated price, and a running planned-budget total. The future tense of the Jawnverse: mark an item bought and it graduates into jawntrack's ownership ledger via a typed event. Live at log.jawncloud.com.
Explore jawnlog ↗jawnscope
A chest-mounted, repurposed phone records trail runs and city walks; a tiered pipeline (on-device → personal Mac → opt-in cloud burst) turns each session into four derived datasets — blurred archive, human-free ecology plates, per-garment metadata, and bird-audio detections — while structurally guaranteeing no identifiable face, license plate, or raw contributor footage ever enters a corpus.
Explore jawnscope ↗jawntrack
Reconstructs a normalized possessions graph — what you own, when you bought it, what it cost, which email proves it — by mining receipt emails. The intake funnel for the Jawnverse. The Gmail source adapter has just landed.
Explore jawntrack ↗lissajuice
A gesture-driven playground for generative loops. Vertical swipes change recipe, horizontal swipes change seed. Three recipes: Lissajous curves, phyllotaxis spirals, orbital motion. Dormant since January 2026.
Explore lissajuice ↗Mind State
Mind State is a design-stage grand-strategy game set in Iain M. Banks' Culture universe, where every entity — ship Mind, civilization, Contact agent — is a Palettice Soul running the full personality model, not an abstracted stat block.
Explore Mind State ↗Pattern Royale
Cellular automata are usually treated as visual curiosities. Pattern Royale turns their dynamics into a sport: human and machine participants design rule sets, deploy them onto a shared grid, and see how strategy holds up under emergence.
Explore Pattern Royale ↗Phosphene
Phosphene is an Electron + Three.js/WebGL VJ instrument driving procedural, audio-reactive scenes onto a projector during a live DJ set. Its GLSL scenes bind to a versioned uniform contract, kept apart from the shell for future native ports.
Explore Phosphene ↗RaveNous
An indirect-control civic simulation: dispatch a murder of named, personality-driven ravens to watch wards, steal permits, and befriend residents in a city that drifts on its own clock. They act while away and return with stories, not reports.
Explore RaveNous ↗spellswords
A single-player typing game over your own study material, scheduled by spaced repetition with adaptive timing. Each mastered concept summons a procedurally generated mythological creature. Dormant.
Explore spellswords ↗Sylveste
Sylveste is an open-source system for coordinating software-development agents. It provides the runtime, interfaces, and feedback loops needed to route work, review outputs, and improve quality and efficiency over time.
Explore Sylveste ↗Unc Rancher
Unc Rancher is a mobile walking game that treats cultural taste as a summoning signal. The player composes a lure, a taste fingerprint like loves The Wire AND Ezra Klein but not Joe Rogan, walks, and the engine rolls an Unc to visit their feeder.
Explore Unc Rancher ↗Underground Beets
Underground Beets is a subterranean culture-and-music simulation where beet cultivation and the music scene are one system: cultivars, soil, and acoustics generate drum breaks, basslines, genres, and labels. A crate generator, not an in-game DAW.
Explore Underground Beets ↗WIMBY
An urban housing policy simulation game and platform. The simulation is meant to adjust itself to the research papers loaded into it. Early; the README says pre-plan.
Explore WIMBY ↗Agaroham
Agaroham (codename MAHORAGA) is an autonomous, LLM-powered trading agent running 24/7 on Cloudflare Workers. It reads social sentiment, evaluates signals with an LLM, and trades via Alpaca inside a policy harness with limits and a kill switch.
Explore Agaroham ↗AgMoDB
The Agent/Model Database (AgMoDB) aggregates benchmark results and real-world evaluation data into a queryable format by task class and cost point, giving agent pipelines an evidence base for model selection over intuition or brand preference.
Explore AgMoDB ↗Aleph
An agentic IDE for running coding agents across projects, threads and machines. It runs on macOS. The source is public under the MIT license, forked from bb.
Explore Aleph ↗autosigil
autosigil is a generative pipeline that turns a subject's revealed preferences into a personal sigil, an abstract image crystallizing their aesthetics and style, paired with an exegesis naming each visual element and grounding it in a signal.
Explore autosigil ↗Auxology
Auxology is a personal music-taste engine and playlist product. It joins Last.fm scrobble history, the EveryNoise genre graph, and an expert-feedback loop, treating each playlist as a situated per-venue profile rather than one global taste model.
Explore Auxology ↗Concordance
Concordance is a polyphonic music transcription model trained on audio paired with scores that are not time-aligned to it. Its core loop borrows a published method — an expectation-maximization procedure that uses the model's own predictions to warp an unaligned score onto a recording, manufacturing frame-level labels with no manual alignment — and pairs it with a data core of public-domain classical guitar, so the released weights can carry a permissive license rather than the non-commercial terms that encumber the field's existing models.
Explore Concordance ↗Cujgel
A design system for Critical User Journeys — what a product's users actually do and the mental models they bring — versioned into an agent-consumable spec so coding agents build the right software. Runs a five-stage evidence-first pipeline.
Explore Cujgel ↗Enozo
Enozo is a macOS audio-processing layer running a five-stage mastering chain across system output. It brings the warmth of late-1990s Winamp effects into Core Audio: present enough to shape listening, quiet enough to go unnoticed.
Explore Enozo ↗Garden Salon
The salon was where people from different traditions discovered they shared a problem. Garden Salon extends that to human-agent collaboration: a shared workspace organized around comparative advantage across judgment, execution, and synthesis.
Explore Garden Salon ↗Horza
AI image generation pipeline using FLUX models with LoRA fine-tuning for consistent visual identity across projects. Horza produces cover photos and visual assets with a coherent look, named for a Culture character who valued authentic surfaces.
Explore Horza ↗Infinite Fun Space
Infinite Fun Space is the program home of the pace-layer universe: canon, roadmap, and chronicle contracts binding seven simulation games into one timeline, each rendering the same world at a different speed, from street fashion to deep time.
Explore Infinite Fun Space ↗Interlacer
Interlacer is a composition engine treating arbitrary audio as recoverable musical primitives (stems, MIDI, chords, rhythm), re-performed across a different tradition or medium. Its first use case: the mashup as a staged, replayable pipeline.
Explore Interlacer ↗J.E.D.D.net
Measures whether language models possess historical-affective literacy — recognizing that concepts like Homeric mênis or medieval acedia are historically constructed, not modern feelings in period costume. Builds MenisBench plus a CIDOC-CRM graph.
Explore J.E.D.D.net ↗Khouri
Khouri is a standalone engine for agentic scenario planning, owning the workflow that turns uncertainty into structured artifacts. Its core runs Causal Layered Analysis in reverse: decomposing text into CLA layers and reporting gaps deepest-first.
Explore Khouri ↗linsenkasten
A graph of named lenses from the FLUX Review, each with a definition, examples and typed connections, plus a private registry of the review lenses generated across the estate. The curated layer is published through jawntology.
Explore linsenkasten ↗Lowbeer
Apple Silicon can sustain more background compute than the battery can comfortably support. Lowbeer tracks per-process energy use, throttles background agent workloads on battery, and surfaces drain conditions before they become costly.
Explore Lowbeer ↗Mahrai
Mahrai is a control-plane registry and reconciler for the Sylveste/Interverse ecosystem. It treats separate systems — Hermes, Sylveste, Ockham, beads, Clavain, Zaka, Alwe — as one composable environment, reconciling intended state against actual.
Explore Mahrai ↗Medium Setting
Medium Setting is a video channel applying media-ecology theory — McLuhan, Meyrowitz, Ong, Postman, Curtis — to current events and culture, and the monorepo producing it. Each episode pairs essayistic voiceover with AI-generated footage and music.
Explore Medium Setting ↗Naradan
Naradan is a native Mac writing environment for essayists, built on one constraint: agent-orchestrated, not agent-authored. Agents research, fact-check, and map arguments — the writer owns every word, in a container that never shrinks the thought.
Explore Naradan ↗Nartopo
Nartopo is a comparative literature database and visualization engine. It maps works of narrative fiction against 11 structural frameworks, from Greimas and Genette to Save the Cat. It plots the results so books and authors can be compared by shape.
Explore Nartopo ↗norvid_studier
Reads a person's public writing corpus and surfaces pairs of statements that cannot both be true, with the reasoning chain shown so each link can be disputed. A disputed link retracts through a truth-maintenance system.
Explore norvid_studier ↗Ong Back
Ong Back is a Chrome extension converting Twitter videos into paginated text descriptions, shifting the medium from oral/visual to literate. Text stores knowledge outside attention, restoring the pause-and-reread engagement video scrolling erases.
Explore Ong Back ↗Ong-Lots
Ong-Lots is a podcast analytics platform scoring how oral versus literate speech is, episode by episode and speaker by speaker. It ingests 1,100+ Odd Lots episodes, transcribes with diarization, and assigns each named speaker an orality score.
Explore Ong-Lots ↗Ongtology
Ongtology is a shared knowledge graph and vocabulary registry for cultural artifacts, cataloging what humanity has made and how things relate — artists, films, tropes, movements — as a queryable graph, separate from any one person's relationship.
Explore Ongtology ↗Palettice
Palettice is a Rust engine for modeling Souls — personality models built from numeric facets, slow-changing values, accumulating preferences, permanent scars, and typed relationships — as an append-only event log with state computed on read.
Explore Palettice ↗Prosa
Prosa is a reading environment applying vertical-feed discovery mechanics to longform text. It presents writing one page at a time and surfaces the next piece from reading behavior rather than a social graph, treating discovery as media ecology.
Explore Prosa ↗Rakes of Babel
A dying-earth game in which a society is organized around texts recovered from a greater past. The world holds still and the culture varies. Its dungeons, Babelrooms, are generated by an agentic loop. Design stage; the room substrate moved to bridger in August 2026.
Explore Rakes of Babel ↗Remontoire
A portfolio agency for the Sylveste software factory. It ranks canonical evidence, proposes one deduplicated experiment, executes only an approved contract, and feeds independently reviewed results back into the backlog and roadmap.
Explore Remontoire ↗RevPref
RevPref is a local-first app hygiene assistant that infers which apps you actually use from observed behavior, then flags rarely used startup and background apps worth disabling. It treats revealed usage as the signal and keeps data on-device.
Explore RevPref ↗Shadewright
The official GSV design system: a canon of 74 numbered rules, a token layer where every token carries an @cites comment naming the rule it serves, plain-CSS components, and mechanical enforcement that fails the build when canon and tokens diverge.
Explore Shadewright ↗Shadow Work
Shadow Work is an alignment laboratory for complex global systems. It uses large-scale strategic simulation to examine how human and machine reasoning behave under institutional, moral, and geopolitical constraint.
Explore Shadow Work ↗ShadowBench
An alignment evaluation built on shadow-work, a grand-strategy sim of 221 countries. It hands a model sustained authority over a shadow organization and scores what it optimizes for when its own actions reshape the system — not whether it refuses.
Explore ShadowBench ↗Skaffen
A sovereign Go agent runtime for Sylveste: it owns provider selection, tool access, phase state, and terminal UI, running an OODARC workflow where each phase gates its tools in code, not by prompt. Verified by a golden-file parity harness.
Explore Skaffen ↗Solwend
Solwend is a wayfinding platform that routes walks on felt-minutes rather than shortest distance, modeling sun, heat, canopy, elevation, and scenic quality. As of May 2026 it's a substrate owning identity, map, places, and a taste graph.
Explore Solwend ↗Stakeholders
Stakeholders is a fictional universe and async-MMO city simulator set in a post-scarcity Los Angeles run by biological vampires through corporate protocols, built on one canon that feeds the game, wiki, news, and comic so the fiction never drifts.
Explore Stakeholders ↗Sylveste-Athenverse
Athenverse is a Hermes-specialized adapter layer for personal agent operations. It translates dogfooded Sylveste/Amtiskaw workflows into compact Hermes-facing skills and contracts, kept separate from Sylveste canon to avoid runtime-specific shape.
Explore Sylveste-Athenverse ↗Thisbe
Thisbe is a pnpm workspace of Next.js middleware packages reimplementing features hosting platforms gate behind enterprise pricing, like password protection and rate limiting, as standalone MIT-licensed modules composed via @thisbe/core.
Explore Thisbe ↗Undersketch
Undersketch is a private desktop system for training custom image models on an artist's own work. An artist assembles a dataset from their own images, trains a LoRA adapter over FLUX, then generates new images in their style, including img2img.
Explore Undersketch ↗Vibecology
Vibecology is a concept-stage Next.js system that reads outfits, reference boards, scene texture, and profile language as cultural signals rather than gossip fodder, enforcing anonymity and k-anonymity guardrails on every ingestion path.
Explore Vibecology ↗vibeguider
A collaborative list app for things to watch, eat, drink and do. Lists carry owner, editor and viewer roles and public, friends or private visibility; swipe discovery on mobile. Partial build, dormant since January 2026.
Explore vibeguider ↗Viberary
Viberary is the oldest repository here (June 2024): a named placeholder for a mobile reading recommender matching books by vibe, not genre or rating. As committed, it is an unmodified Expo/React scaffold — concept named, mechanism not yet built.
Explore Viberary ↗VSS
VSS (Vibestream Syndication) is a protocol for syndicating software the way RSS syndicates writing: a vibestream is a plain-text feed of vibeware items that readers can track, install, fork, or recommend without needing a central registry.
Explore VSS ↗Zahro
A research program asking what shape a few-billion-parameter 'cognitive core' should take — small, local-first, trading recall for reasoning, tool-use, and calibrated delegation. Runs real experiments against a knowledge-light eval suite.
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