Software & Tools / Technical index
Independent software projects focused on engineering workflow, local AI, verification, and bounded automation.
These projects support technical reasoning, repeatable execution, evidence capture, and honest failure states. Maturity and limitations are shown alongside capability.
An experimental engineering agent for planning, teaching, executing, and reviewing CFD workflows across first-order methods, OpenFOAM, and supervised Fluent workflows.
A framework for supervised agent execution with explicit authority boundaries, observable tool handoffs, evidence capture, verification, and controlled escalation.
A local document and image-text processing tool for screenshots, scans, forms, and image-based PDFs with adaptive preprocessing, lane selection, uncertainty visibility, and inspectable output.
Aero connects engineering problem framing, fidelity selection, solver setup, execution evidence, and review without treating an AI-generated answer as computational authority.
ForgeClaw and OCR97 focus on the parts of automation that are easy to hide: authority, uncertainty, evidence quality, verification, and failure.
ForgeClaw explores how an agent can act on a declared surface, preserve what happened, and require separate evidence before a result is accepted.
OCR97 treats extracted text as evidence with provenance and uncertainty rather than as a guaranteed transcription ready for silent downstream use.
Selected notes connect implementation decisions to engineering concerns: defined authority, observable execution, independent acceptance, and evidence that survives failure.
Why bounded agent workflows should define authority before acting, preserve execution evidence, and make acceptance a separate decision.
Read ↗A draft technical note on how missing rows, damaged labels, and uncertain text propagate into downstream tool decisions.
A draft measurement template for comparing local execution, cloud planning, latency, energy, and failure costs without cherry-picking.
ForgeClaw and OCR97 were originally published through Precision Arts Lab. That attribution is secondary here to their role in Alex's independent technical work.