Built in the open. On purpose.
You can watch how every instrument is actually made — the code, the releases, the failures along the way. It’s the same discipline the tools then hand back to you.
By the numbers
The public record.
0instruments shipping
0tests green across the studio
0public releases
0black boxes
Counts reflect the public repos — 92 tests green in Skeptic, 103 in Beacon — read the code, the tags, and the commit history for yourself.
The practice
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Code in public
The repositories are the source of truth — not a marketing page. What you read is what ships.
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Every claim ships with evidence
Nothing lands on a promise. Each result carries the proof that it works — the same standard our tools apply to your work.
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Failures stay visible
We log what broke and why, in the open. The dead ends are part of the record, not swept out of it.
Shipping log
What we shipped, in public.
A running changelog across every instrument — the change, the date, the repo. 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
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