Local-first, by construction.
I build the alternative the thesis argues for: tools that run on your own rails — your hardware, your keys, your machine — owned end to end, no tenancy required. The flagship is a multi-agent coordinator called chump. The rest of the workshop is below.
01Flagship
chump
Running one coding agent is simple. Coordinating ten on the same repository without commit collisions is the unsolved problem — so that’s the one chump solves. It’s a multi-agent fleet coordinator and gap registry, and it ships its own local-first agent when you want one.
Two co-equal lanes. The coordinator hands out file-based leases, isolates each task in its own git worktree, tracks open work in a SQLite gap registry, and ships finished work through a merge queue — agent-agnostic, so it drives Claude Code, Aider, goose, or your own hands equally. The built-in agent runs on local models with durable memory and 30+ governed tools.
$ brew tap repairman29/chump && brew install chump
- Your hardware, your keys, your machine. Self-hosted, offline path needs no paid API key.
- Concurrent isolation by construction. Leases, worktrees, and pre-commit guards stop the stomping.
- Research infrastructure, not vibes. Nine cognitive-architecture modules, studied under A/B eval with ablation flags.
02The Workshop
Open source & the rest
I contribute where it’s load-bearing, not for the green squares. A sample of what’s public:
- PyO3 — expanded
clippy::undocumented_unsafe_blockscoverage; safety declarations for undocumented unsafe blocks in the Rust–Python bindings. - AsyncAPI/website — performance and Lighthouse accessibility work toward WCAG 2.1.
- ACP registry — registered chump as a citizen of the Agent Client Protocol ecosystem it speaks.