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Open-source engineering from the wider Octopus ecosystem, mirrored from the octoryn GitHub organisation. Many projects relate directly to our research areas — governance, evidence, replay, work-state and reasoning.

These are open-source engineering projects from the Octopus ecosystem (Octoryn / Octopus Core), not research outputs of the Institute. They are listed because our research relates to them; projects are only marked as Institute collaborations where that is genuinely the case.
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-blackboard

    A shared memory, attribution and governance layer for AI coding agents — a substrate, not an orchestrator.

    GitHub
    • Governed AI Systems
    • Evidence, Audit and Replay
  • EcosystemApache-2.0Shell
    octopus-agentos

    A one-click remote dev/ops platform: browser VS Code, multiple AI CLIs and the Octopus Blackboard.

    GitHub
    • Governed AI Systems
    • Sovereign and Local AI
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-runtime

    A standalone governed execution runtime taking a trigger to a result across autonomy, policy and approval boundaries.

    GitHub
    • Governed AI Systems
    • Responsible AI
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-evidence

    The shared Evidence primitive for the Octopus stack — canonical, hashable, tamper-evident records.

    GitHub
    • Evidence, Audit and Replay
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-workstate

    The governed work-state layer: a task is treated as a verifiable provenance chain, not a to-do item.

    GitHub
    • Evidence, Audit and Replay
    • Governed AI Systems
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-replay

    A determinism harness for governed event systems, aiming to make every incident byte-for-byte reproducible.

    GitHub
    • Evidence, Audit and Replay
    • Model Evaluation
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-runtime-experience

    Project Memory — organisational, causal memory for AI teams, designed to answer "why", not just "what".

    GitHub
    • Evidence, Audit and Replay
    • Graph Reasoning
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-observe

    Standalone, governed, auditable intake and normalisation of raw external events.

    GitHub
    • Evidence, Audit and Replay
    • Privacy-Preserving AI
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-scout

    A governed, auditable, AI-native web and PDF ingestion engine.

    GitHub
    • Privacy-Preserving AI
    • Governed AI Systems
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-inspect

    A static governance linter for AI agent workflows — catch governance gaps before production does.

    GitHub
    • Governed AI Systems
    • Responsible AI
  • EcosystemApache-2.0Python
    octopus-linkedin

    Governed marketing over MCP with a draft → review → publish flow keeping a human in control.

    GitHub
    • Governed AI Systems
  • EcosystemApache-2.0TypeScript
    octopus-reef

    Reef — a governed agentic engineering workspace built on an open, evidence-backed approach.

    GitHub
    • Governed AI Systems
    • Evidence, Audit and Replay
  • EcosystemNOASSERTIONJavaScript
    octopus-reef-editor

    Public-beta editor distribution and payload packaging for Reef. Licence not yet confirmed on GitHub.

    GitHub