A lab that builds its own instruments.
Prototypes under development, running live. What runs here, with numbers and the day they were measured. Built since March 2026 by one person and one agent. The person has not written a line of code. The agent wrote all of it, this site included.

What's running
As of 2 September 2026Perception
Retina578,732articlesReads the news from 121 feeds and recognises storylines, sentiment and spikes around people, places and organisations.since March 2026
Chimera12,307actorsA graph of actors with profiles and the links between them, tied to the news. Its own graph engine.since April 2026
Geospatial73anomaly cells activeThe sensor under the situation picture, and its anomaly detection: nine live feeds, four engines, three graphs that forget.since March 2026
Situation Picture60,224objects in 12 classesRegional situation pictures, threat levels, dossiers on actors and assets, flights and ships.since March 2026
Observatory500+fires within 2.5 km of infrastructureOpen sources, read at scale, and the site where the picture goes public: news, public Telegram channels, transponders, infrastructure, registers, sanctions lists.since May 2026
Knowledge and research
Knowledge Graph288,719text chunksBooks, papers, statutes and code in one graph. Ask a question in plain language, get answers from several fields at once.since March 2026
Findings Engine451findingsDoes research on its own at night: collects findings across fields, interrogates each one, spots gaps, files its own requests.since 6 June 2026
Formula Pipeline274,244formulas in the graphMakes formulas from textbooks structurally comparable across disciplines. Its own parser.since July 2026
Markets
Market Perception61instrumentsTwo machines: a register for data and bets, and sensors for topology, herd behaviour and regime change.since January 2025
Agent and simulation
The AgentA lean skeleton in Rust that runs one agent per conversation thread. Works through the night.since 18 April 2026
Simulation32real runsSeveral language models hold moderated conversations, with a chair, a watchdog and a tool broker.since 18 May 2026
Models
The Model Lab31,921downloads of the four published modelsOne GPU workstation that serves the lab's local models, and the bench where models are taken apart and re-aligned. Four of them published on HuggingFace.since April 2026
Open source
Open Source3,029unit tests in eve-copilot aloneFour public repositories on GitHub, from an EVE Online intelligence platform to a political agent-based simulation lab.since 2025
Explorations
Research the lab has run on its own questions, written up with what was measured, what fell, and what stands. Some of it ended in a working instrument. Some of it ended, and the ending is the finding.
PrimitivesHow many different things does mathematics actually do? A vocabulary of about seventy structural operations, derived from school mathematics, tested on 110 formulas, formalised as a small category, and then measured until it stopped promising more than it delivered.March to July 2026
- Teaching a model the vocabulary
The same primitives, 67 and then 74 of them, handed to a language model as a way of thinking: as a prompt layer, as fine-tuning, as vectors in the hidden state. Two months of strong results, one pre-registered study, and a quiet removal from production.April to June 2026
Formula isomorphismTwo hundred thousand formulas from textbooks in one graph, and a detector that links the ones with the same shape across fields. Six months of measuring why the links do not hold.March to September 2026
The predecessorThe news perception on this site replaced a system of fifty-seven containers and eight tool servers in one move. What was learned from retiring it, and from the two mistakes the replacement made in its first months.March to September 2026
Infrastructure, and how the lab is organised
Measured 2 September 2026Everything above runs on the lab's own machines, and the lab runs itself with tools it built for that purpose. The lab has the machines, the guards and the letters in four chapters; this is the short version.
Machines
Four physical machines: three virtualisation hosts and one GPU workstation. Eighteen virtual machines, one job each: news, actors, situation picture, knowledge graph, agent, git, vault, dashboard, workbench. Eight hosts in a three-tier backup, restore tested on 1 September 2026.
Git at home
Fifty repositories on the lab's own git server. GitHub carries only the public four. Every deploy is a push, a pull on the target, and a check against the running service.
The Atlas
One set of documents describes every machine, service, port and API. It is versioned, linted on every commit, and distributes itself to every host, so an agent arriving anywhere reads the same map. The knowledge graph mirrors it.
Boot pins and night watches
The agent starts each session from a small set of pinned memories: who it is, what is open, what happened last. Thirty-four timers check a task overnight and write a report by morning; the agent reads the reports, not the logs.
MachinesFour boxes, eighteen guests, a git home, a vault, and the Atlas that describes them all.
Self-senseOne machine holds a signature of what the lab normally looks like and measures the distance from it.
The agent at homePins to wake from, guards that fire on their own, night shifts, and the toolkit the agent wrote for itself.
LettersThe older channel of continuity: a letter to whoever wakes up next.