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title: "Open-source CLI tools for LaTeX, git, CAD — UniverLab"
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Plate I · _The lab’s lantern_

![An engraved magic lantern projecting onto a cloth screen](/bench/live/lantern-day-900.webp)

Paused

![](/bench/machines/canopy-day-450.webp)Canopy![](/bench/machines/texforge-day-450.webp)TeXForge![](/bench/machines/gitkit-day-450.webp)GitKit![](/bench/machines/ghscaff-day-450.webp)ghScaff![](/bench/machines/astro-denoise-day-450.webp)Astro Denoise![](/bench/machines/demostage-day-450.webp)DemoStage![](/bench/machines/quorum-day-450.webp)Quorum

The bench: point at a machine to project it, click it to open its page.

About the lab

## Open source for the AI era — built for real problems

UniverLab is an open computational laboratory that groups experiments under the philosophy of [Pensamiento Cósmico](/manifesto/), where a need becomes an open experiment, and that experiment becomes open knowledge — tools, datasets, papers.

Science · CLI · LaTeX · CAD · Git

Local-first. AI-assisted. Yours forever.

[Explore the experiments →](/experiments/)[Read the manifesto →](/manifesto/)

01 — Origin

## It began with one experiment that learned to build the others.

This isn’t a pile of repositories. It started as a handful of skills for everyday work — until one grew teeth and became [Canopy](/canopy/), an agent system that, before long, was building Canopy itself, then every experiment after it. These tools aren’t products lined up for sale — they are open experiments that became tools because someone needed them, and stay open so others can learn from them.

02 — Philosophy

## Technology is not the goal.

The laboratory is guided by [Pensamiento Cósmico](/manifesto/): technology as the medium through which curiosity becomes reality. Software should outlive trends. Knowledge should remain open.

*   Open knowledge
*   Reproducible engineering
*   Scientific thinking
*   Simplicity
*   Long-term thinking
*   Human–AI collaboration

03 — Research directions

## Where the lab is looking.

The axis: explicit systems · reproducible work · human–AI collaboration. The fields below are where it is being tested.

Now

*   Developer experience
*   CLI design
*   AI-assisted workflows
*   CAD

Next

*   Computational science
*   Bioinformatics
*   Simulation
*   Knowledge systems

[The roadmap, item by item →](/roadmap/)

04 — Why

## Not a lab about the universe. A lab of the universe.

UniverLab exists to increase — even infinitesimally — the probability that knowledge and consciousness continue. Not software for its own sake, not AI for its own sake: tools that help the universe keep understanding itself. In practice, that means open-source CLIs you can install today, experiments you can reproduce, and docs that ship with the code.

[Read the manifesto →](/manifesto/)[Contribute on GitHub ↗](https://github.com/UniverLab)