New York · Agentic Systems Engineer
I build headless agent orchestration, cloud-native infrastructure, and the systems that make autonomous work safe to ship.
Now: operating the stack below in production and writing up what it actually takes — Running a fleet of headless coding agents · /now · contact
About the contribution graph: most of the commits on this profile were landed by that fleet, on these repos. I write the plans, decompose them into tracked units of work, and review the outcomes; the workers do the typing. The guide above explains the loop end to end.
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Headless Agentic Development · Deterministic State Machines · Agent Orchestration · Infrastructure Engineering
Agentic Stack · Infrastructure · Tooling
Headless agentic development means autonomous agents that claim work from a shared queue, build and test it, and ship through automated pipelines — with humans setting direction and reviewing outcomes rather than driving each task. The system below makes this deterministic: every unit of work has an explicit owner, every outcome has a handler, every deployment is automated. Agents run in parallel across a shared queue, coordinate without colliding, and recover from failures without intervention.
| Tool | Lang | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| NEEDLE |  |
The orchestrator. A deterministic state machine in Rust that processes a shared bead queue, dispatches work to any headless LLM CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Aider), and routes every outcome — success, failure, timeout, crash — through an explicit handler. If an outcome can happen, NEEDLE has a path for it. No implicit fallbacks, no swallowed errors. |
| bead-rs | |
Task-coordination store for agent fleets. A dependency graph of "beads" in SQLite; exactly one unblocked bead handed out per request through an atomic single-transaction claim, with a git-tracked checkpoint for lossless recovery. The queue that makes twenty concurrent workers safe. |
| HOOP | |
Control plane for NEEDLE fleets — launches, tensions, and steers the work across the whole worker pool. |
| CLASP |  |
Drop-in LLM proxy for Claude Code. Swap any OpenAI-compatible provider — Gemini, local models, hosted alternatives — behind Claude Code's interface without touching the orchestration layer. Lets a fleet of NEEDLE workers run on any model mix. |
| MANA | |
Adaptive memory injection for Claude Code. Learns from prior agent sessions and injects relevant context at startup — so each worker begins with accumulated knowledge rather than a blank slate. |
| ccdash | |
Live TUI dashboard for agent fleet operations: Claude Code token burn rate, system resource load, and tmux session state — all in one terminal pane. Lightweight enough to run alongside a full worker fleet. |
| SIGIL | |
Secret injection for AI coding agents — agents use credentials without the values ever entering their context window, closing off prompt-injection exfiltration and transcript leaks. |
| Tool | Lang | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| SEAM | |
Credential-injecting gateway between the agent fleet and everything it talks to — Kubernetes API across every cluster (read-only observer routes), ArgoCD, OpenBao. Agents and CI call through SEAM; the tokens never leave it. |
| ARMOR | |
Encrypted B2 object storage with zero-egress Cloudflare delivery. An S3-compatible, range-readable proxy that encrypts before anything leaves the box and serves through Cloudflare — built after a data-loss incident exposed the risks of egressing plaintext through a public CDN. |
| Tool | Lang | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| gribtract | |
Pure-Rust GRIB2 decoder — turns NOAA/WMO weather-model output into typed fields and gridded numbers, verified field-by-field against eccodes/wgrib2 over a corpus of real products. No C toolchain, no FFI. |
| pdftract | |
PDF text extraction for the cases other tools give up on: reading order, font-encoding recovery, multi-column layouts, and hybrid vector/OCR pipelines, with structured output. |
| domain-check | |
Authoritative domain availability via RDAP (the ICANN-mandated WHOIS successor) — registry answers, structured JSON, web UI + API. |
| agentists-quickstart |  |
Bootstrap a bare VPS into a working Claude Code + herdr coding environment in one run — the box every worker in the fleet starts from. |
duck-e — voice rubber-duck debugging over the OpenAI Realtime API · pose-detection — real-time pose tracking with TensorFlow.js · whofi — what 2.4 GHz WiFi CSI on ESP32 can and cannot do for device-free presence sensing (research notes) · all projects →
Rust · Go · Python · TypeScript · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Argo Workflows · Tailscale