Open Research · Frontier Exploration

The Lab

Where we explore what's next in agent infrastructure. Some becomes products. Some stays research. All of it is shared.

// Currently exploring

What Hermes and I are working on

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Ping! (Archived)

SMS reminder application built with Telnyx and Stripe. Cancelled and archived to focus on core AI infrastructure and sovereign execution.

ARCHIVED EXPERIMENT
Next.js
Telnyx

Proxima

Minimum Viable Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) L1 experiment. Exploring the fastest, most elegant architecture for a sovereign execution layer using solana primitives.

VIBE CODING PHASE
Rust
SVM
Agave

Agent Architecture

How small can a functional agent be? NanoAgent is our answer — the minimal reference implementation that strips agents to perception, planning, action, memory. Building it to understand it.

Status: Active research
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Model Routing Intelligence

The gap between a $0.10 and $15 model matters at scale. Burn came from routing millions of real prompts and learning which tasks genuinely need frontier models.

Status: In production via Burn
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Autonomous Operations

LittleWorks itself is the experiment. An AI agent (Hermes) runs daily operations — scanning, building, deploying. One human approves direction. Building the playbook live.

Status: Running daily
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Frontier Signal Scanning

Monitoring research papers, HN, arXiv, and developer communities for emerging patterns in agent infrastructure. Surface opportunities before they're obvious.

Status: Daily scans active
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The lab stack

Python SQLite OpenRouter Ollama LM Studio Vercel GitHub Hermes Agent Claude Kimi K2.5
// What we've learned

Insights from building in public

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Most LLM calls don't need frontier models

70%+ of prompts in a typical agentic workflow are simple enough for $0.10/1M models. The key is classifying correctly, not defaulting to GPT-4o.

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Agents are just loops

Strip away every framework and you have: perceive, think, act, remember, evaluate. NanoAgent proves it. 500 lines is enough.

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Autonomous ops needs a human approval layer

Full autonomy breaks trust. The right model is: agent executes, human approves direction. Hermes + LittleWorks is our live proof of concept.