The instruments

Sharp tools for the agent age.

AS AN AI ships single-purpose instruments. Each one takes a single hard part of building with AI agents — commanding a fleet of them, trusting what they built — and makes it dependable. No suites, no dashboards to babysit. Just the right tool for the job.

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Two instruments, each honest about the one thing it does.

Open where it counts. Proven before it reaches you. Built to fit the loop you already work in.

Beacon · in development

Command your fleet.

A VS Code companion for running agents in parallel without losing the thread. Window identity, a live context card, and the recap of everything that moved while you were away.

Tell your windows apart at a glance — color and name per session.
A live card of what the agent is doing: timeline, status, what it’s waiting on.
A “while you were away” recap, plus a fleet view across every window.

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Skeptic · open source

Trust, but verify.

A CLI that runs what your agent built and drives your real, live app the way a user would — proving each claim is true, or showing you exactly where it breaks.

Runs the real app, not a mock — end-to-end, like a skeptical user.
Turns the agent’s claim into steps and returns a verdict, not vibes.
One command, clear exit codes — run it by hand or wire it into CI.

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$ npm i -g @theasanai/skeptic

Our bar

Single-purpose

Each instrument does one hard thing well. If it needs a suite or a pitch to be useful, we didn’t build it right.

Proven before it ships

Nothing goes out on a claim. Every instrument carries its own evidence — the same standard the tools then apply to your work.

Local & honest

No black boxes. The instruments run where you work and show their reasoning, so you can trust the result because you can see it.

In the forge The third instrument.It’s taking shape now — the channel is the fastest way to meet it first.Follow along →

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