We build systems that build themselves. An indie studio running experiments in the open — and sharing the patterns that build them.

It's one person and a fleet of agents shipping the work. We build games, simulators, and specialized agents on top of infrastructure we run ourselves, from the hardware up. The patterns that fall out of building them (orchestration, voice-as-code, release automation) get open-sourced as we go, for anyone who wants to read them and build their own.

Infrastructure we ship as patterns to study and steal, not products you wait on us to improve.

• release-tools — release-notes generator and Discord embed as one GitHub Action. Runs on every repo here.
• rabbit-hole.io — research agent that turns a topic and a budget into a knowledge graph instead of a pile of links.
• protoCLI — an AI agent that lives in your terminal.
• protoBanana — chat-native image generation and editing, served as an OpenAI-compatible provider on top of ComfyUI.
• protoWorkstacean — a pluggable pubsub bus for agentic action.

protoMaker is the dark factory: the orchestrator that ships most of what's here. Named agents pick features off a board, work in isolated git worktrees so they don't collide, and merge through the same CI any human PR goes through. A separate agent reviews the plan before code gets written, and the system escalates to a stronger model when a feature fails twice. 159 MCP tools wire it into the rest of the stack.

The substrate the experiments sit on. Most of it stays private; the parts worth sharing surface as the repos above.

• protoLab — LLM eval, training, and inference on 2× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (192 GB). LiteLLM gateway, Langfuse, vLLM.
• mythxengine-sdk — deterministic multi-agent worlds in Rust. Genre-agnostic; games plug in as packs.
• homelab-iac — the self-hosted Proxmox cluster it all runs on, behind Caddy, Cloudflare, and Tailscale.

• PilotProtocol — mech-vs-mech agents fighting on a hex grid, with a click-through replay viewer that shows each model's reasoning a move at a time.
• MythXEngine — a TTRPG world-and-story generator built on mythxengine-sdk.
• protoVoice — a full-duplex voice agent you can interrupt mid-sentence. Live at voice.proto-labs.ai.

idea → decision record → task graph → agent picks it up → worktree
isolation → implementation → antagonistic review → CI → PR → merge

Every transition is a gate. Work that fails one goes back a step or escalates to a stronger model, and nothing merges that didn't pass the same checks a person would.

Rough aggregates across the protoLabsAI org, from GitHub (May 2026):

One person and a fleet of agents. We keep the numbers visible because a claim without one is just marketing.

• protolabs.studio — home and blog
• hello@protolabs.consulting — consulting: pattern transfer, not retainer work
• @protoLabsAI — X
• Substack — long-form

MIT licensed. No subscriptions, no microtransactions, no gated tiers — pay-what-you-want and donations only. The infrastructure ships as patterns to study and steal. Bring your own hacking.