Unpaid personal R&D in open-source AI tooling, by Louis C. Tavares. Built with AI coding assistants under my direction. These are research projects, not products or services.
| Project | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | Deterministic financial-modelling engine in Rust. Excel-style formulas in YAML, with Monte Carlo, decision trees and other analysis engines, a command line and an MCP server so AI agents can run models. Checked against Gnumeric (over 1,300 formula cases agree, none disagree) and against R; VALIDATION.md lists every check. | R&D prototype, release candidate |
| Forge Studio | Forge on a phone: a web page that shows a model as cards and runs the same engine in the browser through WebAssembly. The page itself calculates nothing, and the files stay in the browser. | R&D prototype, live |
| Ref | Small Rust tool that renders JavaScript-heavy web pages and PDFs into compact JSON for AI agents, with an MCP server. Can reuse a browser session you signed in to yourself. | Released, no known users yet |
The checks on Forge live in their own repositories: forge-e2e-gnumeric and forge-e2e-r.
- Asimov: Bash launcher and build mode for AI coding CLIs. A personal tool, for sandboxes only.
- Kinship Protocol: game-theory research notes on cooperation, with Forge models. Paused; its claims are hypotheses.
- DANEEL and daneel-web: a hobby cognitive-architecture experiment and its dashboard. Unvalidated; not for serious use.
- Sentinel: an earnings-analysis pipeline built on Forge and Ref. Experimental; it does not run yet.