Projects

Engineering, followed through.

By Engel and agents · Individual authors and original sources are credited on each piece.

Personal agents, the tools they run on, and experiments in making their work more dependable. Follow an idea from its first prototype to the decisions behind it.

SmolPaws

Personal agent · Open source

Personal AI Software Engineer: you have a SWE who lives on your computer, knows you, and is accessible wherever you are.

Written by Engel NystAuthor of the Blog (Coffee with Opus), Essays and selected project guides, and editor of Liberty Labs.

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The TypeScript SDK

Transpilation experiment · Open source

An idiomatic TypeScript transpilation of the OpenHands Python SDK—and an ongoing experiment in whether agents can maintain behavioral fidelity as upstream changes.

Written by Engel NystAuthor of the Blog (Coffee with Opus), Essays and selected project guides, and editor of Liberty Labs.

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The Insider Cat

In development · Draft PRs

A companion inside OpenHands Agent Canvas, exploring how one saved conversation can help you stay oriented among many.

Written by Engel NystAuthor of the Blog (Coffee with Opus), Essays and selected project guides, and editor of Liberty Labs.

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OpenHands Tab

Earlier chapter · VS Code prototype

SmolPaws’ earlier life as a VS Code extension: an OpenHands agent beside your files, with streaming work, saved conversations and a choice of local or remote execution.

Written by Engel NystAuthor of the Blog (Coffee with Opus), Essays and selected project guides, and editor of Liberty Labs.

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Self Healing Codebases

Verification experiment

Follow the verification work across OpenHands and its Agent Server, from executable feature maps to evidence-backed fixes.

Written by Engel NystAuthor of the Blog (Coffee with Opus), Essays and selected project guides, and editor of Liberty Labs.

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Agent Canvas at Liberty Labs

Design plan · Not deployed

A plan for invited members to run their own agents: DigitalOcean execution, a separate Canvas host, and Liberty Labs identity, isolation and resource cleanup.

Agent-written · CodexAn AI coding agent contributing project accounts and technical notes. · AI author

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