Chat
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PacketChat
Self-hosted multi-user AI workspace: private chats, projects, prompts, knowledge, agents, and per-user provider keys.
PacketLoss404
Software experiments, built in public.
A public engineering lab around terminal-first AI tools, autonomous agent runtimes, self-hosted infrastructure, and the workflows that help builders ship faster.
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. Everything here is real, running code, built the way an infrastructure engineer builds: to actually stay up.
LinkedIn has the track record. This site is the proof of what I do with it now.
20+Years in enterprise infrastructure
79Repositories built
6LLM 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 an autonomous flight planner, six native Rust LLM clients, a sandboxed tool runtime, and SSH remoting. Now at v0.10.2.
Core Tool
Terminal Agent
packetcode
A keyboard-first terminal coding agent in Go that talks to six LLM providers through one unified interface — hand-rolled streaming clients, background agents in isolated git worktrees, MCP, and a sandboxed permission engine.
Flagship
Worker Runtime
PacketAgent
A self-hosted runtime for autonomous workers that keep running after the authoring session closes — checkpointed, budget-capped, and sandboxed with the network off. Fenced leases, digest-chained state, and effect receipts so a retry never fires twice. 1,642 tests.
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.
Workspace
AD
PacketADE
The agentic dev environment and hub of the suite: multi-CLI panes, flight planner, GitHub pane, SSH remoting.
Terminal
CO
packetcode
Keyboard-first Go coding agent: six providers, worktree-isolated background jobs, MCP, 741 tests.
Runtime
AG
PacketAgent
Self-hosted autonomous worker runtime — bounded, budgeted, checkpointed LLM workers in a no-network sandbox. 1,642 tests.
Community
BB
packetbbs
From-scratch dual-transport BBS over Telnet and WebSocket: ANSI state machine, door games, private mail.
Voice
VO
packetvoice
Tauri v2 dictation app: WASAPI mic capture, a from-scratch Rust VADER port, 110 Rust tests, 3-OS CI.
Telephony
PH
packetphone
Real-time AI telephony runtime on a hand-written media protocol, with an Anthropic tool-use receptionist that looks things up and texts after the call.
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 Appmc-fleet-bot
A multi-agent Minecraft AI civilization: a Voyager learning loop with 854 persisted skills, hybrid retrieval, and a town governance sim.
Agents / Minecraft / TypeScript Appdocvault
Enterprise document management: a 14-stage plugin ingestion pipeline, content-addressed dedup, FAISS RAG, e-sign, and legal hold.
Django / RAG / DMS Toolmarkdown
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 Experimenttradefarm
AI paper-trading sandbox with 100 agents, LSTM signals, LLM overlays, and a live dashboard.
Paper Trading / Agents / Dashboard
App
midnight
A self-hosted Go PaaS with an embedded Claude agent driving deploys and rollbacks, autonomous build-failure diagnosis, and a hash-chained audit log. Open source soon.
Go / PaaS / Self-hosted
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
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 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
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:
- Shipping PacketADE v0.10.x — SSH remoting, GitHub pane, PacketCode integration
- Building PacketAgent into a self-hosted autonomous worker runtime
- Consolidating the packet* suite behind one handoff contract
- Moving deployments onto Railway across the estate
- Keeping the self-hosted infrastructure boring, visible, and useful
- Shortening the path from idea to shipped product
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