Volume I · The lab’s experiments
Every experiment of the lab, each with its machine: the tools you can install today, the research in progress, and what was archived.
(From canopy, the forest’s crown.) 1. A graph engine for AI coding agents — every harness, one workflow.
2. fig. A wooden hive where many agents work under one roof, each in its own cell and all in one flow. Like the forest canopy, it does not grow the trees: it covers and orders them so the light reaches every one.
curl -fsSL https://install.univerlab.org/canopy | sh
(From TeX and forge.) 1. A unified LaTeX workspace — writing, diagrams, and PDFs in one self-contained tool.
2. fig. A type press for the age of machines: the manuscript goes in, the printed sheet comes out. With it LaTeX stops being an installer's trade and becomes again what it always was, the art of setting a page well.
curl -fsSL https://install.univerlab.org/texforge | sh
(From git and kit, a case of tools.) 1. Guided git repository setup — hooks, ignores, attributes, and config in one flow.
2. fig. The craftsman's case that gets the most out of git: the hooks nobody sets up and the rules everybody forgets, kept in one case that opens the same way in every repository.
curl -fsSL https://install.univerlab.org/gitkit | sh
(From GitHub and scaffold.) 1. An interactive wizard that scaffolds and enforces conventions on GitHub repositories.
2. fig. Scaffolding raised before the building: it guards the branches, lifts the checks and leaves every repository standing from day one, so whatever is built on top never needs propping up later.
curl -fsSL https://install.univerlab.org/ghscaff | sh(From CAD and spec, specification.) 1. CAD as code: declarative geometry compiled deterministically to DXF.
2. fig. A drafting table that declared parts instead of drawing them. It was archived when the lab chose to wrap the best tools rather than reinvent them; its idea lives on in the tools that replaced it.
(From Greek ástron, star, and denoise.) 1. A research proposal for benchmarking astronomical noise reduction — evaluated on the science it recovers, not how clean it looks.
2. fig. An eyepiece that parts light from noise: between the grain the sensor leaves and the star that is really there, a line of research that measures before it claims.
(From demo and stage.) 1. Demos as Code — capture, record and export reproducible terminal demos.
2. fig. A zoetrope for the terminal: every demo is written like a score and plays back the same, frame by frame, like the gallop Muybridge broke apart so it could finally be seen.
curl -fsSL https://install.univerlab.org/demostage | sh
(From Latin quorum, ‘of whom’.) 1. Serverless planning poker — share a link, estimate together, no sign-up.
2. fig. A table of face-down cards: everyone plays their estimate at once and nobody sways the others; agreement appears when they turn over.
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