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James Beck

Open-source tools and research for operational witnesses, admissibility gates, receipt chains, and agent governance.


Projects

A working surface for claims, witnesses, coverage, consequence, refusal, and receipts.

Operational

In daily use. Local-first, evidence-preserving, ops-shaped.

nq

Claim preflight for operational systems. Separates observation from assertion, preserves evidence, interrogate with SQL. One binary, zero infrastructure.

nightshift Deferred governed work with receipts and reconciliation.
wicket Admissibility preflight kernel for agentic operations.
standing Standing and entitlement observability.

Governance kernels & substrate

Standalone components that compose into the governance stack.

wicket-guard Preflight for AI-agent-authored diffs. Cooks authority-bearing surface mutations into Wicket intents.
agent_governor Research substrate for governed agent work.
continuity Governed state persistence with hash-chained receipts.
verifier Formal admissibility sidecar using Z3.

ATProto / Bluesky

Transparency, monitoring, and moderation tooling for the AT Protocol.

rpp Receipts and reviewability overlay for ATProto.
atproto-labelwatch Monitor labeling activity across the network, flag integrity-risk patterns. Live →
atproto-driftwatch Track how claims propagate and mutate. A labeler that doesn't emit labels.
atproto-labeler Custom labeling service with governed drift detection.
atproto-feeds Source-first signal desk. Structural feed ranking that rewards originality over engagement. Live →
atproto-archive Personal corpus archiver into JSONL and plaintext.
atproto-stats Follow noise analyzer. Interaction density, posting cadence, graph statistics.

Other

grid-dependency-atlas Interactive map of communities exposed to infrastructure decisions made outside their control. Explore →
lexidoku Wordle meets Sudoku. Every row is a word, every column is a word. Local certainty causing global misery. Play →

Research

Selected papers and preprints — full list in the papers repo.