Agents write code fast, but they fail all the time: they stall, misreport, and claim work they didn't do. On a team they quietly pile up code nobody understands. Vinaya runs the whole engineering workflow as a pipeline of agents, and in it an agent never decides a fact. Code computes it, gates enforce it, the event log records it, and a human approves what matters.
What's under the hood
- Two execution backends: a standalone driver, and Atta Engine, my workflow engine. It's a YAML compiler that runs LangGraph and executes my own drivers, with checkpoints, pause and resume, stop conditions and tools enforced in code.
- Agents in OS sandboxes (macOS Seatbelt, Linux bubblewrap). Each role gets exactly its own tools.
- Verdicts bound to the exact change they judged, so an approval can't outlive what it approved.
- A typed, append-only event log, delivered live through Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects.
- Agent evals on Harbor, the harness behind Terminal-Bench: each role runs in an isolated container trial against hidden tests.
A real result: Onchain Rewind, a weekend experiment built entirely through Vinaya to test its telemetry (demo · results):
32 / 33 tickets merged
34 min median developer + reviewer time per ticket
103 problems caught by reviewers before merge
18,508 automated check runs across 39 checks
I've used AI daily since late 2022, and in the IDE on a production team at Game7 since 2024. Pair-programming with AI there got me exactly the code and architecture I'd have written, only faster. It was also dangerous: dependencies I'd never have installed, PRs too big to review, and a team that stopped learning from each other because the agent made the decisions. Vinaya is my answer. Keep the speed, and keep the ownership.
| Vāda | Multi-agent deliberation on LangGraph, with routing across Claude, Gemini, GPT and Grok, cost and quality fallback, and a hosted MCP server (bearer auth, envelope-encrypted keys) |
| Herald | Forensic hiring audits: matches a candidate to a job description with evidence, not vibes |
| AttaLabs | The monorepo where it all runs, governed by Vinaya end to end. The code is public and source-available, so read it. |
Eighteen years in software, with frontend at the centre since 2016. I've worked on embedded firmware, a core booking engine at Amadeus, multi-tenant SaaS at Game7, a cross-platform Electron launcher at Elixir, and real-time multiplayer and Web3 across several chains.
My old portfolio is still one of my favourite things I've made. It's built in Angular 1.2, with a three-layer CSS parallax and animations everywhere. I drew every SVG in it by hand, one by one, over four months. It's ten years old and still runs smoothly.
