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Sloop

One screen for every AI coding agent, across every repo. One shared context and one cross-repo fleet view, on tmux.

lockbox

An offline-first CLI password manager in Go. Your vault is one encrypted file on your machine — no cloud, no network.

More in progress

We're building SaaS products on top of what we've learned. Watch this space.

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Journal & Notes

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NoteJuly 1, 2026

Putting Your Second Brain to Work (Part 2)

The full loop once the vault exists: ingest a real codebase (we use sloop), query it for cited answers, and lint it to stay clean.

JournalJune 30, 2026

My AI Workspace Never Sleeps

Stop treating the laptop as the dev machine; treat it as a client to an always-on workspace you reconnect to.

NoteJune 28, 2026

Claude Code Hooks: Hardcoded Guardrails and Automation for AI Agents

Why standard prompts aren't enough. Learn how to use hardcoded hooks to enforce strict boundaries and build reliable automation for your AI agents

NoteJune 28, 2026

Bootstrapping a Second Brain with Obsidian and Claude Code (Part 1)

How to automatically generate an Obsidian vault using Andrej Karpathy's minimal structure via Claude Code.

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We are actively building and improving Sloop, and exploring new pilot projects.

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