Tools

The parts of the lab you can take with you. Everything here is free, under the MIT License.

Write Better

Our house writing standard, and the first tool we've published: github.com/convivy/write-better. It names the habits common in AI-drafted prose — define-by-negation, the broad-to-narrow ramp, the bare-fragment lead — and gives the plainer form to use instead. It ships as a style guide plus a retrofit pass you can run on any draft, and a conversational companion (Talk Better) for chat replies. We hold every piece of prose the lab produces, human- or model-written, to it.

Starter kit

A distilled version of this whole environment for your own machine: github.com/convivy/agentic-starter-kit. One install gives you a steward agent, a working roster, a dashboard, a knowledge base your agents can search, and a stub product wired for whichever models you want to try — so the system-design reference stops being a thing you read and becomes a thing you run. From there you grow it the way we grew this one: by asking Claude.