We wanted to build something that would give everyone a free, local, and customizable 20th-century Bell Labs on their computer.

The platform combines ZeroClaw (Rust runtime) for orchestration and tool policies, James Library (original research articles/prototypes) for sessions and experiments, and a security-first agent model that treats external text as untrusted.

The goal is simple: go from idea to experiment to artifact, without black boxes, and more customizable than most cloud-based multi-agent platforms.

For reference, we’ve been using this daily for a few years as an R&D branch for Vers3Dynamics, and recently decided to open-source it.