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nic van dessel

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San Francisco, CA

I build open-source developer tools, with a goal to improve how AI coding agents work. I'm inspired by science, and do my best to follow the scientific method. I value honesty, and do not like to make bold claims about what my systems do, without validation and proof.

What I'm building:

  • floop — spreading activation memory for AI coding agents. Captures corrections as durable behaviors and retrieves them by context. Grounded in cognitive science (ACT-R, Hebbian learning).
  • sproink — Rust spreading activation engine with C FFI, extracted from floop for performance and portability.
  • frond — Agent-first CLI for managing stacked PRs with DAG dependencies. Single binary, zero config, JSON output for agent integration.
  • floop-bench — Open benchmark measuring whether agents actually learn from corrections, using SWE-bench Verified. All results published honestly.
  • hippofloop — Distilled local model for floop consolidation. No API calls, no internet required.
  • team-up — Claude Code plugin for multi-agent team orchestration.
@nvandessel

Simply looking to offset my AI subscription cost, which powers the development of these tools.

Featured work

  1. nvandessel/floop

    Spreading activation memory for AI coding agents - corrections in, context-aware behaviors out.

    Go 25
  2. nvandessel/sproink

    In-memory spreading activation engine with CSR graph and C FFI

    Rust
  3. nvandessel/hippofloop

    Fine-tuning pipeline to distill floop's LLM consolidator into a small local GGUF model

    Python 1
  4. nvandessel/floop-bench

    Open benchmark evaluating floop's impact on coding agent performance using SWE-bench Verified

    Python 1
  5. nvandessel/frond

    Agent-first CLI for managing stacked PRs with DAG dependencies on GitHub.

    Go 4
  6. nvandessel/team-up

    Orchestrate persistent agent teams in Claude Code — spec writers, engineers, reviewers, and researchers working together through a structured pipeline

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