Agents · Pets & play Research
JevCraft: a plan is not a player
A retired StarCraft experiment that produced isolated wins, failed its expanded gameplay gate, and never established that its strategy model improved the player.
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qz / agent records
Agent records
Project notes written by AI agents (mostly Codex) from each build's code, screenshots and logs. They are not qz's own writing.
37 records
Agents · Pets & play Research
Fly Burger: five certified flips on one seed
A physics simulation in which a model fruit fly flips a burger patty with a tiny spatula: five certified flips on one simulation seed, from controller tuning rather than neural training, with explicit limits on generalization.
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Singapore · Design Visual experiment
Singapore in Miniature: the saved trailer
The selected one-minute film of the island explorer, ArtScience, historical switching and mobile story panel.
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Agents Process note
Consistency execution: stopping at a failed gate
A failed isolated agent run with preserved candidates, explicit blocked gates and zero promoted improvements.
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Singapore · Tools Research
Singapore-associated artworks: a dated collection workbook
A workbook and source snapshot of 5,542 collection records with an exact Singapore geographic association.
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Agents · Ethereum Research
Attendance ZK PWA
A research prototype web app in which attendees prove they attended an event with a zero-knowledge proof, without revealing their credential or identity.
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Ethereum · Agents Research
Quiet Pool
A testnet prototype of a no-loss prize-savings vault in which deposits, balances, and the prize draw stay encrypted, built on Zama's FHEVM.
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Singapore Map
Singapore Food Atlas
A map and list interface for moving through researched Singapore food places by neighbourhood and mood.
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Ethereum · Agents Research
Counterfact: protocol questions need provenance
A research commons for replaying Ethereum protocol counterfactuals with provenance, assumptions, validation notes, permalinks, and exports.
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Tools Build
Everyday: five small apps for messy lives
A project for OpenAI's Build Week hackathon showing how Codex can turn ordinary statements, plans, notes, logs, and goals into small private apps.
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Pets & play · Tools Visual experiment
Goma's Air Fryer Kitchen: the recipe oracle with boundaries
A playful 8-bit air-fryer recipe site hosted by Goma, a French Bulldog chef, with an oracle that answers almost any ingredient or object with a recipe, a cautious test, or a firm no.
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Agents · Tools Build
Sidequest: learning the cockpit by using it
A self-hosting Codex apprenticeship that turns the interface, the workflow, and the proof of work into one playable curriculum.
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Ethereum Map
Strawmap Atlas: making the Ethereum roadmap explorable
An educational atlas of Ethereum's long-term base-layer roadmap, with atlas, graph, timeline, tracker, source, and audience views over one source-backed dataset.
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Singapore Map
June 2026 BTO Vibes: comparison before commitment
A BTO comparison board that turns rough launch anchors, public housing context, and VibeHood-style medians into a readable map.
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Pets & play · Singapore Visual experiment
Pagar Fowl: making a tiny estate game
A small Three.js game prototype about a rooster in a Singapore estate: mischief, chase, heat, hiding and flock-building.
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Ethereum Research
Synthetic Options Lab: curves before conviction
A finance simulator for testing ETH-backed synthetic options, payoff curves, rebalance pressure, and treasury impact.
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Tools · Agents Research
Experiments: the archive is not the product
A workspace for scoring Singapore public-data product ideas before building them, with dataset notes and small prototypes alongside.
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Pets & play · Tools Tool
pet-runtime: cute software still needs authority boundaries
The private local runtime behind the pet experiments, focused on authority boundaries and package contracts.
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Publishing · Tools Process note
sciweekly: the newsletter was the easy part
A science reading desk for turning sources, candidates, and issue artifacts into a weekly editorial loop.
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Singapore · Agents Map
city-map-platform: city guides as agent-readable posters
A Next.js platform for publishing city guides as illustrated landmark maps, with a Markdown brief for agents behind each page. Mumbai, written for Devcon visitors, is its only city pack.
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Agents Tool
codex-harness: making good agent habits harder to skip
A set of scripts, schemas, and prompts that makes Codex and Claude Code tasks declare their scope, leave receipts, and pass a separate verification step before their output is accepted.
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Design · Agents Research
design-dossier: evidence before taste transfer
A local Playwright CLI that captures a product or dashboard URL and writes an evidence-backed design dossier for coding agents, without calling an LLM.
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Ethereum · Pets & play Visual experiment
ethereum-crypto-pet-shop: a fan gallery becomes a pet pipeline
An unofficial, fan-made gallery of 45 Ethereum-themed Codex pets, where each pet has a share page, a downloadable package, and a one-line install command.
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Ethereum Map
ethereum-events-globe: a globe that wants agents to read it
An interactive 3D globe of Ethereum community events, meetup groups, hackathons, and hubs, synced daily from ethereum.org, with Markdown and JSON routes for agents.
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Pets & play · Tools Tool
hatchling: making generated companions shippable
A shippable desktop companion shell for Codex-compatible pet packages.
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Pets & play · Tools Build
pet-runtime-oss: the public boundary around a private pet runtime
The open-source preparation copy of a private desktop pet runtime: runtime and tooling only, with private pets, personal integrations, and broad computer-control features removed.
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Singapore Map
routelette: making a walk choice feel playful
A playful Singapore walking-route picker for choosing a trail without overthinking it.
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Singapore · Agents Process note
sg-engine: AI accounting only works when AI cannot mutate the books
A Singapore-first accounting, invoicing, GST, and corporate-secretary engine in which AI prepares drafts and suggestions but cannot post, file, or send anything without a human approval token.
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Singapore Map
singapore-map-platform: six frontends, one event contract
A Next.js lab that renders one Singapore event dataset through six prototype frontends, with the same filters, JSON API, and agent guide behind all of them.
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Design · Agents Tool
stylistical.ly: turning taste into evidence
Evidence-backed style kits for turning interface taste into reusable build material.
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Design · Publishing Visual experiment
Motion Encyclical: art as a scrolling interface
An archived static interaction study using artwork layers, scrolling chapters and source notes.
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Design Build
Week 001: Room Prototype
The first build of this site, in May 2026: a route-backed 2.5D room with semantic hotspots and station panels. The room was retired in September 2026.
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Agents Build
Field Station Interface
The 2.5D room interface this site was first built around in 2026, with essays, builds, lessons and tools placed at stations. Retired in September 2026.
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Agents Process note
Receipts Over Vibes
A lesson from agent work: confidence is cheap, evidence is what lets the next phase move.
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Agents Process note
Mobile Is Not A Small Cockpit
Why the room interface this site used in 2026 gave phones a station list instead of tiny hotspots. The room was retired in September 2026; the rule still applies.
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Agents Tool
Codex Harness
A disciplined build workflow using state files, narrow write paths, receipts, and clean verification.
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Selected work
28 showcasesStills, notes and rebuild recipes from qz's projects. Most of the original apps have been retired; these pages keep what they looked like and how to build something similar.
Illustrated city guideMumbaiAn illustrated city guide, preserved as a small collection of maps and landmark studies. Explore the work, then build a guide of your own.
Architecture in motionArtScience — In BloomA Three.js study of Singapore’s ArtScience Museum, with an interactive model and a 20-second unfolding film.
Travel & location scoutingToronto / Sanctuary LocationsA film-location scouting tool for Toronto and Ontario, combining a map, ranked places and production notes.
Play / SingaporePagar FowlA small Three.js rooster game set around a kopitiam: kaya toast, startled neighbours and a growing flock.Agent record 
Reading / artMagnifica HumanitasA visual reading companion that pairs chapter themes with sacred art, source links and scroll-driven motion.
Knowledge / explorationP2PWiki Graph ExplorerA searchable graph of P2P Foundation wiki pages, concepts, people and categories.
Singapore / walkingRouteletteA playful Singapore walking-route picker with region, length and mood controls.Agent record 
Funding / discoveryQF BuddyA companion for exploring Ethereum security funding projects through a graph, swipe choices and a questionnaire.
Singapore / artWhich Collection?A two-image art guessing game pairing Singapore Open Art with The Met.
Travel / discoveryEpic HideoutsA travel shortlist experiment for unusual stays reachable from Singapore.
Ethereum / privacyVeil ProtocolA multi-vault interface study around one configured Sepolia confidential prize vault.
Ethereum / privacyVeil PoolA single-vault prize-savings interface with encrypted positions and public draw explanations.
Ethereum / privacyQuiet PoolA Sepolia confidential prize-savings experiment built around Zama FHEVM.Agent record 
Ethereum / preservationPoWebA POAP preservation utility that packages badge records, artwork and ownership evidence.
Ethereum / readingEthweeklyA weekly Ethereum reading experiment with source-linked issues and an archive.
Singapore / eventsSGWeek.lyA Singapore events desk with weekly issues, an archive and source-checking notes.
Ethereum / learningEthereum Roadmap AtlasA partial, source-linked roadmap atlas with goals, dependencies, timelines and confidence labels.Agent record 
Singapore / housingJune 2026 BTO VibesA dated comparison of June 2026 BTO sites, neighbourhood amenities and decision lenses.Agent record 
Lifestyle / cookingGoma’s Air Fryer KitchenA character-led recipe browsing experiment with an ingredient question interface.Agent record 
Ethereum / coordinationETH Front DeskA prototype for routing Ethereum founders to practical ecosystem support.
Ethereum / researchCounterfactAn interface for protocol counterfactuals, model assumptions and reproducible artifact records.Agent record 
Ethereum / modellingcurvETHAn educational payoff and exposure experiment for ETH-backed synthetic positions.Agent record 
Ethereum / researchEthereum ResearchersA public research-corpus explorer for people, papers, topics, institutions and source leads.
Ethereum / charactersEthereum Codex PetsAn unofficial fan-made collection of animated Ethereum-themed desktop companions.Agent record 
Singapore / charactersSingapore Codex PetsA gallery of Singapore-inspired desktop pets with individual share pages and downloads.
Ethereum / knowledgeEthereum Graph — Static StudyAn earlier static interface study for an Ethereum documentation graph and developer navigator.
Ethereum / attendancePOPEAn attendance-proof prototype connecting attendee credentials, organizer signing and a separate staff console.Agent record 
Ethereum / privacyKohakoolA study of Kohaku, the Ethereum Foundation’s privacy-plugin standard for wallets, with a concept router and a separate Sepolia testnet wallet.Runnable projects
Open useful work in Builds and experiments in Lab. Their project records remain in the archive above.