The Sylin mark - a glowing bulb planted in the grounds

Tools that answer to you.

An independent software toolworks - developer frameworks, home-lab infrastructure, and tools for AI agents, all local-first. They run on your hardware and keep working when the internet doesn't.

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The Way - four commitments
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Local-first
Your hardware, your network. No cloud in the critical path.
Agent-native
Built with and for AI agents. MCP throughout.
Continuity
Nothing phones home. You pay for governance, never for autonomy.
Open to everyone
Open source at the core. Free to run - no accounts, no gatekeeping.
Not a startup. Not a foundation. Not a hobby shelf. Not finished - pre-1.0 is stated wherever it's true.
The portfolio

The flagships, dealt face-up. Open any card for the full story - then crack a pack below for the rest of the deck.

4 flagships · 8 in all
Flagship 0.17 Koan· the stack Model your domain as entities; Koan composes storage, web, AI and jobs - and tells you exactly what it did.$ git clone https://github.com/sylin-org/koan-framework "Describe the garden; it plants itself." Koi mascot 0.9 Koi· the network Discover, name, trust and serve - one cross-platform binary. No accounts, no cloud.$ koi mdns discover "It knows every stone in the pond by name." Ghostlight mascot 0.5 Ghostlight· the guardian Governed access to your own browser, for AI agents. The engine is open source and free, forever.$ npx ghostlight "A light left burning, so the halls stay safe." Flagship 0.2 Zen Garden· the estate Repurposed hardware becomes quiet infrastructure - request services by type, never by hostname.$ garden-rake find mongodb "Old machines, tended into a garden."
The rest of the deck
SYLINOfficial toolworks GRW Sylin GROWING Agyo · os-tools SYLINOfficial toolworks RSR Sylin◆ SEALED ◆ RESEARCH Hokora · Nagi
The maker

These tools are the result of twenty-five years of building systems that other people trust. What that taught - that people keep what they can run themselves - is the idea behind everything here.

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