The tools
- NEEDLE — Deterministic state machine that dispatches the whole agent fleet.
- bead-forge — Git-native work queue with atomic claims — the fleet pulls tasks from it.
- FABRIC — Fleet telemetry — every dispatch and outcome lands here.
- claude-governor — Cost and quota gate between workers and model providers.
- HOOP — Fleet control plane for NEEDLE workers.
- ARMOR — Encrypted S3 backup proxy guarding the estate's data.
- spaxel — WiFi-sensing research platform — built end-to-end by the fleet.
- gribtract — Pure-Rust GRIB2 decoder, verified field-by-field against wgrib2. Built by the fleet.