INSTRUMENTS

Instruments

Five things that broke for me in production, each one runnable right here. Turn one knob, read one number. Nothing on this page calls the network or asks for a key.

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The Bench

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Engine notes behind the articles. These model mechanisms, not products.

IDTITLEWHAT IT MODELSFROM
fly-traffic-intersectionFly Connectome Traffic IntersectionReflex time of a 32-neuron LIF circuit over 7-ray LIDAR raycasting against a car steering from a 27-frame stale-decision ring buffer.the-hybrid-ai-standard
logprob-polygraphToken Logprob PolygraphShannon token entropy H(t) computed with log2 over top-5 logprob tensors across 4 pre-captured interrogation transcripts.ten-cognitive-biases-ai-agents
dom-virus-sandboxDOM Virus vs. Capability FirewallRogue DOM mutations reverted per second once a JavaScript Proxy trap and a MutationObserver interceptor seal the capability surface.the-crutch-vs-the-operating-system
lord-of-flies-economyLord of the Flies Council VoteTreasury drain across a 10-agent council: unverified rounds cost $65 of a $1,000 shared treasury every 5-second vote cycle.ai-agent-split-brain-trap
wasm-gladiator-pitMemory-Safety Territory AutomatonTerritory held by bounds-checked memory-safe cells against unchecked mutating cells over a 64x36 Uint8Array grid of 2,304 cells.client-runtime-agent-resilience
biomorphic-reflexBiomorphic Reflex RouterRouting decisions from a 64-neuron Drosophila sensorimotor LIF circuit ticking at 1,000 Hz with a local fallback and zero network hops.the-hybrid-ai-standard
mujoco-harnessRigid-Body RK4 Control Barrier HarnessJoint overrun on a 240 Hz coupled rigid-body arm under unverified torque spikes against a Control Barrier Function clamp.the-crutch-vs-the-operating-system
webgpu-kv-thermalWebGPU KV-Cache Thermal ProfilerTime to first token as quadratic causal attention saturates the local WebGPU adapter, then under AST DAG context pruning.eleven-principles-of-ai-tokenomics
tokenomics-arbitrageFrontier vs Workhorse Routing CostCost per turn, per trajectory, and per 1,000 trajectories for all-Frontier, all-Workhorse, and routed runs as the KV-cache hit rate and escalation share change, at catalog list prices.stop-sending-every-agent-turn-to-the-frontier-model
02.01fly-traffic-intersection60 FPS canvas

Reflex time of a 32-neuron LIF circuit over 7-ray LIDAR raycasting against a car steering from a 27-frame stale-decision ring buffer.

02.02logprob-polygraphEvent-driven

Shannon token entropy H(t) computed with log2 over top-5 logprob tensors across 4 pre-captured interrogation transcripts.

02.03dom-virus-sandbox60 FPS Verlet solver

Rogue DOM mutations reverted per second once a JavaScript Proxy trap and a MutationObserver interceptor seal the capability surface.

02.04lord-of-flies-economy5s vote cycle

Treasury drain across a 10-agent council: unverified rounds cost $65 of a $1,000 shared treasury every 5-second vote cycle.

02.05wasm-gladiator-pitMeasured ms/generation

Territory held by bounds-checked memory-safe cells against unchecked mutating cells over a 64x36 Uint8Array grid of 2,304 cells.

02.06biomorphic-reflex1,000 Hz tick

Routing decisions from a 64-neuron Drosophila sensorimotor LIF circuit ticking at 1,000 Hz with a local fallback and zero network hops.

02.07mujoco-harness240 Hz RK4 solver

Joint overrun on a 240 Hz coupled rigid-body arm under unverified torque spikes against a Control Barrier Function clamp.

02.08webgpu-kv-thermalWebGPU adapter probe

Time to first token as quadratic causal attention saturates the local WebGPU adapter, then under AST DAG context pruning.

02.09tokenomics-arbitragePer-token rate model

Cost per turn, per trajectory, and per 1,000 trajectories for all-Frontier, all-Workhorse, and routed runs as the KV-cache hit rate and escalation share change, at catalog list prices.

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INDEX

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IDTITLEWHAT WENT WRONGRUNTIME
billing-lagThe bill after a retry stormYour agent loop ran all night; the cap fired lateVirtual clock
chunk-dropStream drops on the subwayThe reply cut off mid-sentence and came back doubledToken replay
idle-timeoutModel thinks, proxy hangs upSilent dead air, then the connection diedVirtual clock
split-brainTwo agents edit one fileParallel writes quietly overwrote each otherDeterministic replay
stream-tearBroken emoji in your chat UIMultibyte characters tore at a chunk boundaryReal TextDecoder
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CALCULATORS

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IDTITLEWHAT IT MEASURESRUNTIME
tokenomics-solvencyAI Tokenomics Solvency CalculatorMonthly input-token burn against a Google Cloud spend cap, with context caching discount and cache storage fee.Client-side arithmetic
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GENERATORS

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IDTITLEWHAT IT MEASURESRUNTIME
agent-spec-treenoVibes Agent Spec GeneratorWrites a four-file agents/spec/ tree from a runtime, ingress, state, and transport selection.Client-side, Blob download
04.01tokenomics-solvencyClient-side arithmetic

Monthly input-token burn against a Google Cloud spend cap, with context caching discount and cache storage fee.

WORKLOAD PARAMETERS

SCENARIOS
Vertex AI storage fee: $1.00 / 1M cached tokens / hr

SOLVENCY ASSESSMENT

ESTIMATED MONTHLY BURN$0.00
SOLVENCY SECURED
Total Monthly Prompts0
Estimated Monthly Input Tokens0M
Context Caching Discount$0.00
Cache Storage Fee$0.00
05.01agent-spec-treeClient-side, Blob download

Writes a four-file agents/spec/ tree from a runtime, ingress, state, and transport selection.

AGENT PARAMETERS

PRESETS

GENERATED agents/spec/ TREE

agents/spec/tech_stack.md
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