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Notes from the lab.
What we’re building, the decisions behind it, and what is still rough.
Introducing LumbridgeThe open engine for agentic organizations: what it is, what state it is in, and when the source opens.- Why Apache-2.0We considered a license that banned malicious use and chose plain Apache-2.0. Here is the reasoning.
- Opening all twelve partsAll twelve repositories open together on November 13, 2026. The test each one has to pass, and where the most work is left.
- What we are standing onCredit to the projects Lumbridge is built on and learned from: Ubuntu, Rust, GPUI, Ratatui, Herdr, Omarchy and Orca.
Lab notes
Month by month.
What we built each month, what went wrong and what it led to.
- One name for every partThe first ten days of November: a second factory, two more Herdr forks, a rename to Lumbridge, and a website that changed three times.
- Four websites, three shippedMostly the website: versions two to five in five days. Also our first software factory and our first fork of Herdr.
- Seventeen repos in a weekOur first desktop app, a phone companion, a notebook, an editor and the first website, all started in the last week of September.
- A refusal emptied the boxOne repository, twenty-nine commits. We made the memory governor read the machine, and a bug stopped every model twice in a day.
- A governor for one GPU boxThe oldest commit we can find: a small Rust program that keeps a GPU box from running out of memory. Twelve commits.
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