emperoresearch lab
Open weights04/06
EMPERO/03 — OPEN SOURCEGITHUB · MIT / APACHE-2.08 REPOS

The whole
stack, open.

The tools behind the lab, public and permissively licensed — from the Abacus coding agent to the training infrastructure we run every day. MIT or Apache, inspectable by default, no waitlists. If they break you, send a patch.

01
abacus
TERMINAL · CODING AGENT · Rust

A fast, local-first terminal coding agent written in Rust. Bring your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint — local Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM or hosted providers — then inspect approval-gated diffs, sessions, goals, skills, MCP tools, subagents and scheduled jobs from one focused TUI.

released today · Apache-2.0
02
fusionchat
CHAT · MULTI-MODEL · Python

Multi-model fusion chat: a master model asks up to three independent fusion models the same task, then synthesizes one coherent answer from their replies. TUI plus a web UI, every turn logged.

public · Python
03
runmonitor
TRAINING · DASHBOARD · Python

A lean, local experiment tracker with a live web dashboard. Import and go — loss curves, arbitrary metrics, artifact saving and run comparison update in real time. No servers, no API keys, no cloud.

public · MIT
04
offside-checkpoints
TRAINING · STORAGE · Python

Automatically offload PyTorch checkpoints to (S)FTP as they are written, then delete the local copy so long runs never fill the disk. Resume by run name and checkpoint name.

public · MIT
05
taskgen
DATASETS · SFT · Rust

A fast, concurrent task generator for distillation data, written in native Rust. Dozens of domains across math, code, science, creative writing and conversation. OpenAI-compatible; builds the public tasklist-* corpora.

active · Rust
06
claude-code-proxy
INFRA · PROXY · Python

A high-fidelity proxy that translates the Anthropic Messages API to any OpenAI-compatible backend: extended thinking, document blocks, streaming tool use and cache control preserved.

v0.1 · MIT
07
nanoAttnRes
RESEARCH · Python

A nanochat fork with Block Attention Residuals: learned, input-dependent attention over previous block outputs in place of fixed additive residuals. A small, readable testbed for an architectural idea.

experimental · MIT
08
TEMPLE2
TRIBUTE · Python

A tiny ~63M GPT-2 trained from scratch on public-domain scripture — a spare-compute tribute to Terry A. Davis. Not a serious model. That is the point.

side project · MIT
06 — Dispatch

Follow the build.

An occasional dispatch from the lab — progress on Qwythos and Claire, what we found with microverse, new Abacus releases and the one thing we got wrong that week. No hype, no roadmap theatre. Cancel from any line.

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