1. Orchestrate
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taskloom
Open-source agent creation, management, and run app. BYOK with Claude Agent SDK support.
PacketLoss404
Software experiments, built in public.
A public engineering lab around terminal-first AI tools, self-hosted automation, creator infrastructure, and the workflows that help builders ship faster.
Ian S. Walmsley
Agentic Systems Engineer
Twenty-six years in Systems Engineering — building, securing, and running the infrastructure that other people's software depends on. PacketLoss404 is where that same rigor now drives how I build with AI: agents, LLM tooling, and self-hosted systems shipped to production, not slideware.
My résumé says systems engineer. This lab says the rest. Rather than talk about AI, I ship it — in public, at the pace agents now make possible. Everything here is real, running code, built the way a systems engineer builds: to actually stay up.
LinkedIn has the 26-year track record. This site is the proof of what I do with it now.
26Years in Systems Engineering
70+Repositories built
5LLM providers, one interface
Featured Projects
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The flagship builds.
These are the systems getting the most focus, iteration, and real usage right now.
Flagship
Agentic IDE
PacketADE
A Tauri v2 native workspace for running multiple AI coding CLIs side-by-side, with planning, issue tracking, memory, and deployment tooling baked in.
Core Tool
Terminal Agent
packetcode
A keyboard-first terminal coding agent that talks to five LLM providers through one unified interface. Reads, edits, patches, searches, and executes against your project.
Flagship
AI Workspace
PacketChat
A self-hosted, multi-user AI workspace for private chats, projects, prompts, knowledge, agents, provider keys, and Docker Compose deployment.
The Packet Stack
A connected set of tools for building with agents.
Each project works on its own. Together they cover the loop from idea capture to agent execution, operations, community feedback, and the next shipped iteration.
2. Submit
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vibehack
Local submissions tracker for hackathons, contests, deadlines, links, and checklist progress.
3. Create
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ChatMax
Desktop MiniMax client for chat, image generation, music, text to speech, and video.
4. Automate
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mc-server-bot
AI-powered Minecraft bot framework with autonomous learning, skills, chat, and fleet control.
5. Transcribe
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vibetotext
Turn spoken context, clips, and rough notes into usable text for prompts and build logs.
6. Investigate
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vellum
A durable investigation system where the dossier is the primary surface, not chat.
APPS
Playable projects, apps, and operator tools.
Game
Credit Quest
Top-down retro action-adventure RPG where fantasy ruins meet forgotten tech.
Game / Canvas / Retro RPG Appvibesocial
A directory and discovery surface for vibe coder streamers and live build activity.
Creator Directory / Railway Appvibebbs
Retro bulletin board system for the vibe coding era with ANSI art, door games, and web terminal access.
BBS / Community / Telnet Appverdict
AI-powered idea evaluation. Submit a startup or product idea and run it through a four-pass critique.
AI / Idea Evaluation / Critique Experimenttradefarm
AI paper-trading sandbox with 100 agents, LSTM signals, LLM overlays, and a live dashboard.
Paper Trading / Agents / Dashboard
App
midnight
open source railway coming soon
Railway / Open Source
Behind Closed Doors
Private builds that don't ship in public.
Not everything is open source. These are active private repos — client work, personal infrastructure, and bigger systems still under wraps. No links, just a look at the bench.
AI Sandbox
blackboxai
Closed-sandbox platform for testing AI agents inside fake but structured environments — a simplified internet, network, social world, and app ecosystem.
Agents / Sandbox / TypeScript
Enterprise
synapse
Enterprise workspace management and closed-loop endpoint operations with policy-bounded remediation and Experience-Level Agreement (XLA) reporting.
Endpoint Ops / XLA / TypeScript
AI Assistant
vector
A personal AI assistant with an agentic chat interface, sub-agent delegation, multi-provider model routing, and Microsoft 365, Twilio, and CRM integrations.
Next.js / Agents / Integrations
Fintech
Continuum
A personal finance operating system that aggregates bank accounts, brokerage portfolios, and AI-powered insights into one unified dashboard.
Personal Finance / Dashboard
Image Tooling
Darkroom
Local-first image curation with SHA-256/perceptual dedup, CLIP-powered similarity search, tagging, and a non-destructive editor with 140+ parameters.
CLIP / Editor / Local-first
AI Platform
ai+
A multi-provider AI platform spanning research, chat, a creative studio, and music generation behind one workspace.
Multi-provider / Studio / Music
Build Log
What's actually happening, week by week.
Vellum
Readme cleanup for hackathon reviewers
Dropped stale file references and tightened reviewer-facing docs.
VellumHackathon landing page and stress fixture fixes
Shipped a cleaner landing surface and swept the working tree.
vibesocialNavbar logo mark promoted to favicon
Aligned the browser chrome with the app identity.
vibesocialLive detection made stickier
Checked more uploads and added a grace window so live state behaves better.
Latest From The Lab
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Build Sessions, Lofi Vibes
Mar 1, 2026
Day .5 of Vibe Coding
Enjoying the vibe, setting up, and showing the real middle of toolchain work.
Right now
Currently focused on:
- Improving PacketADE as the main agentic workspace
- Building packetcode into a faster terminal coding flow
- Refining vibesocial and vibebbs for creator/community infrastructure
- Keeping homelab automation boring, visible, and useful
- Shortening the path from idea to shipped product
Sites That Vibe