Built in the open. On purpose.
AS AN AI makes precise, single-purpose tools for developers who build with AI agents. We ship them in public — code, releases, and the failures along the way — because the discipline our tools give you is the discipline we hold ourselves to.
What we hold to
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Built in the open
You can watch how every instrument is actually made. No black boxes, no marketing gap between the pitch and the code.
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The machine proves itself
Nothing ships on a claim. Every result carries its evidence — the same standard our tools apply to your work.
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Instruments, not hype
Sharp tools that do one hard thing well. If it needs a pitch to be useful, we didn’t build it right.
Shipping log
What we shipped, in public.
A running record of what changed and when. The channel carries the announcements.
shipping logpublic
jul 27beacon v0.5.1 — on npm
jul 27skeptic — malformed config now warns, not silently ignored
jul 26beacon v0.5.0 — on VS Code Marketplace + Open VSX
jul 26skeptic v0.1.0 — published on npm
jul 20beacon — ancestor sessions, 103 tests green
jul 18studio — evidence gate: every claim ships with its proof
jul 16skeptic — review-hardening pass, second-opinion checks green
jul 12beacon— session timeline + “while you were away” recap
jul 09skeptic — live-app verifier drives the real UI end to end
nextthe third instrument · in the forge