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PacketLoss404

Software experiments, built in public.

Coding agents, model gateways, deployment platforms, and tools people can use. Built by a platform engineer, with the infrastructure to run them.

The engineer behind the lab

Ian S. Walmsley

Platform Engineer

Two decades of enterprise infrastructure — 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 platform engineer. This lab says the rest. Rather than talk about AI, I ship it — in public, at the pace agents now make possible. The work spans daily-use tools and early builds, with a focus on clear permissions, recoverable state, and infrastructure I can operate.

LinkedIn has the track record. This site is the proof of what I do with it now.

20+Years in enterprise infrastructure
98GitHub repositories · Sep 2026
31Public repositories · Sep 2026
Featured Projects

From the coding agent to the server.

Featured work across deployment, model routing, development, and durable agents.

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The Packet Suite

A connected set of tools for building with agents.

Each project works on its own. Together they cover the workspace you plan in, the terminal you drive, the runtime that executes unattended, and the channels the work reaches people through.

APPS

Practical tools, playable worlds.

Game

Credit Quest

Top-down retro action-adventure RPG where fantasy ruins meet forgotten tech.

Game / Canvas / Retro RPG
App

mc-fleet-bot

An autonomous Minecraft fleet with learned skills, hybrid memory, missions, and town building. Continued from Dylan’s mc-server-bot framework.

Agents / Minecraft / TypeScript
App

docvault

Enterprise document management: a 14-stage plugin ingestion pipeline, content-addressed dedup, FAISS RAG, e-sign, and legal hold.

Django / RAG / DMS
Tool

markdown

A read-only desktop Markdown reader in Tauri v2 with a file tree, scroll-spy outline, zen mode, and a path-traversal-guarded backend.

Tauri v2 / Reader / Desktop
Experiment

tradefarm

AI paper-trading sandbox with agent strategies, model experiments, and a live dashboard.

Paper Trading / Agents / Dashboard
Voice & SMS · Private source

Demarc

A programmable AI phone system with bidirectional voice, SMS, a receptionist workflow, and a dashboard for operating Telnyx-backed lines.

Coding operations · Private source

Syndicate

Run coding agents on your own server and supervise them from a browser, with isolated worktrees, durable sessions, approvals, and execution evidence.

Photography operations · Private source

Walmsley Studio

A private photography workspace for shoot planning, production tracking, a RAW library, non-destructive editing, proofing, and client delivery.

Career workflow · Private source

JobPilot

A career workspace for managing job opportunities, application materials, recruiter conversations, interviews, and follow-ups.

Behind Closed Doors

More from the workbench.

Private projects across business software, creative tools, and agent systems. Some are in use; others are still taking shape.

Game & platform · Local MVP

Open World

An AI co-ship game set in Sector 9, with an offline Camp preview and a World Control portal. The current work is a local MVP in development.

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
Orchestration

compass

A FastAPI multi-agent orchestrator: task leasing, heartbeats, spend-capped evidence-gated goals, a skill curator, and semantic recall over sqlite-vec.

FastAPI / Multi-Agent / Next.js
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 editing workflow.

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
SaaS

lumaflow

A studio-management platform for photographers — bookings, contracts with e-sign, a double-entry ledger, Stripe Connect payouts, and client galleries.

Next.js / Prisma / Stripe
Right now

Currently focused on:

Content reviewed September 11, 2026. Repository totals include forks and private work.

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