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Blackwell Systems™ Stars

Blackwell Systems: building the agentic stack, publishing the proof

Founder: Dayna Blackwell. I build the open infrastructure the agentic AI stack runs on, and ship the evidence to back it: durable agents, wire formats, code intelligence, MCP tooling, and conformance testing, with the research underneath. Independent, evidence-first.


GCF (Graph Compact Format)

GCF

The AI-native wire format for structured data. 100% comprehension on every frontier model. 50-92% fewer tokens than JSON. 2,500+ LLM evaluations across 11 models and 4 providers. 43B+ lossless round-trips across 5 formats. Deployed in 20 production systems including Chrome DevTools MCP. Zero training required.

Spec Benchmarks Playground DOI

Spec · Go · TypeScript · Python · Rust · Swift · Kotlin · .NET · Proxy · Tree-sitter

bide

bide

A full framework for building AI agents in Go: models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), tools, typed multi-step flows, memory and RAG, MCP, multi-agent coordination, and typed human-in-the-loop, all on one durable, append-only journal. The journal is the difference: side effects fire at most once (a resumed run never re-charges a card or re-sends an email), thousands of concurrent runs survive crashes and node handoffs in a single process with no cluster, every run emits a cryptographically verifiable audit trail (RFC 6962 Merkle proofs, checkable without trusting the vendor), and shared governed state is provably convergent. Built for ambient agents that run unattended and act under audit.

CI License Go Status

Getting started · Concepts · Flows · Governance · Audit · Security model

agent-lsp

agent-lsp

Code intelligence infrastructure for AI agents. 65 tools, 30 CI-verified languages, 24 agent workflows. Single Go binary. Uses GCF as default output format.

Go License

mcp-assert

mcp-assert

Conformance testing for MCP servers. 102 servers scanned, 34 bugs found, 12 upstream issues filed. Fuzz testing, schema linting, per-assertion Docker isolation.

Go License

knowing

knowing

Self-adapting code intelligence engine. The system GCF was extracted from. 28 MCP tools, graph-native analysis, session deduplication.

Go License

polywave

polywave

Parallel AI agent coordination. Disjoint file ownership, git worktree isolation, tier-gated execution, and human-reviewed plans. A Scout agent maps the codebase into a coordination plan; Wave agents implement their assigned files simultaneously.

Shell

Protocol · Claude Code · Codex · Go

goldenthread

goldenthread

Go structs to TypeScript and Zod, one source of truth. Discriminated unions, enums, maps, and validation rules compile to runtime-checked Zod schemas; opt-in json-tag inference bridges plain types. Built for Wails and web frontends. Apache-2.0.

Go License

GCP Emulator Suite

Local implementations of Google Cloud APIs for development and CI. No GCP credentials required.

Go License

Secret Manager (50K+ downloads) · KMS · IAM · Eventarc · Auth · IAM Control Plane · Core


Research

9 self-published papers (Zenodo DOIs), several with industry response. A research program on tokenizer-attention coupling proving that BPE merge decisions permanently constrain transformer attention capacity, plus systems work on distributed convergence and memory reclamation.

Tokenizer-Attention Coupling DOI How BPE merge decisions permanently shape transformer internal organization. 43 tokenizers, 20 providers. Controlled experiment: identical models, different tokenizer. Merge barriers produce 3-738x better structured data comprehension, zero natural language cost. 18-phase causal ablation across 2 architectures, 2 scales, 3 domains.

Stranded Attention DOI A previously undescribed failure mode: every attention head in a standard BPE model has structural capacity the tokenizer permanently prevents. All 384 heads at 410M and 768 at 1.3B show 4x more delimiter attention under clean boundaries. The 40pp frustration gap appears by step 5,000 and never closes.

Developmental Atlas of Attention Head Specialization DOI First head-specialization atlas at scale: 384 heads, 7 behaviors, 131 checkpoints, 7 runs, 2 architectures. The BPE capacity tax is architecture-independent (+64.3% NeoX, +67.0% Llama). 48-56% of attention capacity in standard BPE is non-productive.

Structural Ambiguity in JSON Tokenization DOI Cross-tokenizer analysis across 8 tokenizers, 6 providers. JSON field names fuse with the opening quote on 50-63% of tokenizers. JSON boundary merge rate 8.93% vs 1.00% for pipe; TOON tab 59.82%. JSON overhead reaches 81% at 500 rows.

Graph Compact Format (GCF) DOI The AI-native wire format for structured data. 2,500+ evaluations across 11 models and 4 providers. 43B+ lossless round-trips. Deployed in 20 production systems. Spec v3.5.1 Stable. Explore the project

The Hierarchical Identity Architecture DOI Content-addressing as a computation primitive for software relationship intelligence. 2.75x more precise than GitNexus (p=0.0003), 193x faster indexing on enterprise repos. Explore the project · merkle-strata

Memory Drainability DOI Formalizes when coarse-grained allocators can reclaim memory. Proves a sharp O(1) vs Ω(t) dichotomy for bounded retention. Validated empirically (238x recycle-rate differential). Explore the project

Normalization Confluence DOI Coordination-free convergence via well-founded compensation. Third convergence regime alongside CRDTs and invariant confluence. Explore the project

Federated Normalization Confluence DOI Multi-organizational convergence through morphism validity preservation over acyclic networks.


Upstream Contributions

40+ merged PRs across the ecosystem. #6 contributor to mcp-go (8.7K stars). Data corruption fixes, panic recovery, SDK hardening, spec compliance, transport bugs.

Organization What Stars
Google Chrome DevTools MCP (GCF format), go-containerregistry 47K
Anthropic MCP Go, Python, PHP SDKs + servers 85K+
LangChain langchain (text splitter fix) 136K
etcd CNCF gRPC error code fix (in review) 51K
Charmbracelet bubbletea, huh 42K
GitHub github-mcp-server 16K
HashiCorp terraform-provider-aws (GovCloud fix) 10.9K
pypa pip (locale encoding fix) 10.2K
mark3labs mcp-go SDK (9 PRs, #6 contributor) 8.7K
Ant Group mcp-server-chart (9 bug fixes) 4K
Grafana mcp-grafana (3 PRs merged) 2.9K

Full list


Technical Background

Languages:

C Go Rust Python Java Node.js

Platforms & Shells:

Platform Zsh Bash PowerShell

Developer Tooling:

Git Terraform AWS%20CDK Datadog OpenTelemetry Containers GCP

Artificial Intelligence:

GPT Claude Gemini

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  1. agent-lsp agent-lsp Public

    MCP server that orchestrates language servers into agent-native workflows. 65 tools, 30 CI-verified languages.

    Go 156 19

  2. gcf gcf Public

    The AI-native wire format for structured data. 100% comprehension on every frontier model. 50-92% fewer tokens than JSON. 43B+ lossless round-trips across 17 formats. Spec v3.5.1 Stable.

    56 3

  3. mcp-assert mcp-assert Public

    The testing standard for MCP servers. Lint (14 rules), test, and fuzz over real stdio/SSE/HTTP transport. 18 assertion types in YAML. Found 4,794 schema issues across 55 servers. Any language, no m…

    Go 24 2

  4. knowing knowing Public

    Permanent code intelligence layer. Learns what matters, expires what changed, proves what existed. Content-addressed graph with Merkle proofs, 25 extractors, 23 MCP tools. Gets smarter with use.

    Go 20 1

  5. shelfctl shelfctl Public

    PDF/EPUB library CLI/TUI backed by GitHub Release assets (Git LFS alternative). On-demand per-file downloads, metadata catalog, migrate/split bloated repos.

    Go 14

  6. gcp-secret-manager-emulator gcp-secret-manager-emulator Public

    The reference local implementation of the Google Cloud Secret Manager API for development and CI - Local testing and CI/CD without GCP credentials

    Go 13 4