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Zain Dana Harper / ZentropyLabs.ai

Zentropy Labs: Work you can walk away from.

Mission: re-derivable verification

AI now shapes decisions about money, health, safety, and the work that builds the next AI. When a model produces an answer that matters, the person on the receiving end usually has to trust whoever ran it. I build tools that remove that requirement. An accepted result carries a receipt, and a skeptic re-runs the recorded check on their own machine, offline, and reaches the same verdict without trusting me, my company, or my lab.

That property is what capture and conflict of interest cannot survive. A captured auditor or a self-interested lab cannot fake a verdict a skeptic re-runs for themselves, so accountability stops depending on who you trust and starts depending on a check anyone can repeat. The same holds across any actor, company, lab, or nation: given the same check, evidence, and assumptions, a correct implementation returns the same verdict. The end I work toward is trustworthy AI that reaches individuals without asking them to trust a party they cannot inspect.

A public evaluation claim should expose its claim, boundary, evidence, source version, execution assumptions, false-success controls, and correction path, so another reviewer can rerun or challenge the verdict. A receipt proves a check reproduces. It does not prove the answer is true of the world. That bound stays attached to every claim here.

Flagship: Flywheel v1.0.1

Flywheel runs a task with any model you choose, local or frontier, behind one OpenAI-compatible surface, and runs a gated coding agent over your own folders. Every accepted answer emits a proof receipt anyone can re-run offline for the same verdict, with no learned model on the accept path. Ten native evaluation lanes bundle from hash-pinned source and launch on a clean machine. It also ships a native desktop app.

  • Install: pip install flywheel-verify
  • Release: Flywheel v1.0.1, with the Windows installer attached
  • Honest null: on the shipped benchmark the verified loop shows no measured accuracy uplift over single-shot, and the interval includes zero. The value it delivers is the re-derivable receipt and the containment.

Inspect Flywheel · Read publications · See the evidence · Portfolio

Evidence accepted upstream

These results show the work surviving another maintainer's scope and review.

  • AgentFence PR 261: an owner-approved and merged Go engine optimization with deterministic rule selection, allocation coverage, and green cross-platform checks.
  • Free Law Project PR 820: approved and merged documentation for running the fast DB-free test suite.
  • Mergewarden PR 107: replay fixtures for reusable-workflow pinning, revised after owner review, approved, merged, and CI-checked.

What I built

Six representative projects, described by what the code does. Flywheel is the primary platform; the others solve narrower problems and can be used on their own.

Project What it does
Flywheel Flywheel runs a task with any model you choose, local or frontier, behind one OpenAI-compatible surface, and runs a gated coding agent over your own folders. Every accepted answer emits a proof receipt anyone can re-run offline for the same verdict, with no learned model on the accept path. It also ships a native desktop app.
Index Index maps repositories and multi-repo workspaces so you can see how the code fits together. It reads manifests, imports, symbols, and local documentation, then builds offline wikis, dependency maps, context packets, and architecture checks with file-and-line evidence.
Gather Gather collects research material from sources that basic scrapers often miss. It handles JavaScript-rendered pages, authenticated APIs, scholarly records, PDFs, OCR, audio, video, feeds, and local documents, then saves each item in a content-addressed corpus with provenance you can recheck.
BuildLang BuildLang is a systems programming language and compiler that makes programs declare what they are allowed to touch. It checks those permissions and memory rules before producing native code through C. Experimental shader output, two-way C integration, a CLI, editor support, and re-checkable build receipts are included.
Phantom Phantom helps you inspect and, when authorized, change the hardware identifiers a computer exposes. It works on owned or expressly authorized Windows and Linux systems, saves a backup before changes, and can restore the original values.
Accountable Surface Accountable Surface lets an AI agent take only the file, command, web, or browser action a person has approved. It checks the request and authorization, blocks or pauses when needed, verifies the outcome, rolls back reversible failures, and records decisions and outcomes in a journal. Persisted journals are hash-chained so later edits, deletions, or reordering are detected.

Systems, grouped by the work they do

The current verified release of Flywheel v1.0.1: a self-hostable, model-agnostic agent workstation and coding harness for routing, gated tool use, ten native evaluation lanes, receipts, memory, context, and reproducible workflows. The backbone is re-derivable verification: nothing is accepted without a receipt, and no learned model sits on the accept path. It is the sole primary platform, not a label for everything else in the workshop.

Family Representative public work
Agent execution and memory Flywheel, Forum, Relay, Mneme, Plexus
Evaluation and verification Terminal State Fixtures, Crucible, Emet, Bounds
Security and privacy Shipped public work: Phantom. Controlled-private systems with public capability descriptions: Array, Seed, Sofer, Isomorph, Bounds, ORCA and Gate
Developer infrastructure BuildLang, Index, Gather, Chorus
Graphics and runtime systems RAW, SkyrimBridge, Studio Engine, Truth ENB, Elder ENB
Preservation and retro systems Retro Engine, Engine Revival, BRender Archival
Research and education Learn, research records, publications, and measured analytics

Phantom's boundary

Phantom v1.1.0 ships reversible hardware-identity privacy controls for Windows and Linux. It covers Layer 2 identity surfaces. Kernel and firmware layers are modeled but not shipped end to end. Use is limited to machines the operator owns or is expressly authorized to test.

Operational security systems

Phantom is shipped public work. Array, Seed, Sofer, Isomorph, Bounds, ORCA, and Gate are controlled-private systems with public capability descriptions. They are not public releases or downloads.

The security catalog documents each system separately. Phantom changes and restores hardware-identity surfaces. Array coordinates approval-gated offensive campaigns. Seed runs assessment and detection-engineering modules. Sofer coordinates agents, models, probes, and multi-stage workflows. Isomorph tests AI classifier and refusal behavior at authorized inference boundaries. Bounds checks actions, observations, and releases. ORCA manages private findings and reports; Gate makes fail-closed integration and release decisions. Public pages describe each system's job, evidence, maturity, and limits. Targets, credentials, live payloads, client data, and engagement-specific findings stay in approved private or embargoed channels.

Retro Systems Lab

The lab follows play → preserve → verify while keeping each proof boundary clear:

  • Retro Engine is the interactive browser studio for owned pixel, palette, shader, and CRT experiments.
  • Engine Revival v0.1.0 is the public preservation and restoration-evidence spine.
  • BRender Archival v0.1.1 carries the specific BRender restoration record. Generic retro visuals are not presented as BRender evidence.

How I work

Map the real state, build the missing surface, verify it, and leave an artifact another person can inspect and maintain.

For a role-specific view, use the hiring page. For the deeper record, use the portfolio or public capability atlas.

Work with me

Available for paid work: full-time, contract, project, onsite, hybrid, or remote. Based in Seattle, Washington.

Path Where I fit Start here
Technical and evaluation Agent and model evaluation, developer infrastructure, systems integration, CI, security testing, technical support, and documentation. Engineering path
Public, union, and field Public service, ports, facilities, parks and grounds, arboriculture, client operations, scheduling, safety judgment, and physical work. Public-service and field path
Education and research Fellowships, labs, research operations, mentorship, continued learning, open-source work, and evidence-centered technical writing. Research and education

Hire / work · Resume · CV · Security boundary · Retro Systems Lab · LinkedIn · Email

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  1. flywheel flywheel Public

    Self-hostable, model-agnostic AI workstation and coding harness. Run any model (frontier or local) behind one OpenAI-compatible surface, run a gated coding agent over your folders, and keep a proof…

    Python 3

  2. crucible crucible Public

    Python and MCP tools for testing falsifiable claims and recording MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE outcomes against supplied evidence.

    Python 3

  3. index index Public

    Offline repository and workspace maps, wikis, dependency graphs, and context artifacts with file:line provenance, zero runtime dependencies, and MCP.

    Python 3

  4. gather gather Public

    Research intake that reaches the hard places: web, video, papers, scanned PDFs, browser, OCR, and audio into structured research packets. DOM extraction and change tracking built in; provenance rid…

    Python 3

  5. buildlang buildlang Public

    A systems language with typed capability effects, sum types, C FFI, native binaries through its production C path, and HLSL/GLSL output. Linear types and non-C backends remain experimental. Ships a…

    Rust 5

  6. brender-archival brender-archival Public

    Public-safe BRender archival and revival tooling with native Win32 receipts, deterministic media, and bounded release evidence.

    Python 1