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I build systems, teams, and ideas that help people do ambitious work.

I build data systems and agent infrastructure for scientific work, lead the team behind CLIO, and write the coding agent myself. This is where I share what is shipping, what I am learning, and the decisions behind the work.

Meet Clio Coder Explore the work

[ io = input / output ]

An input and output trace passing through a context field A restrained system diagram connecting data, tools, people, and evidence through a central context node. INPUT DATA CONTEXT EVIDENCE OUTPUT people tools
The useful work happens between input and output: context, judgment, and evidence.

Flagship / what I build every day

Clio Coder

The coding agent I created for the people who maintain the code that science runs on. Part of CLIO, the context layer my team and I are building through IOWarp.

The Clio Coder banner, a terminal prompt beside the words Clio Coder, the CLIO agent for your science.

Your models, your machines, and a receipt for everything it did. Twenty typed tools, no raw shell by default, bounded workers across your cluster over SSH, and local models as the design target rather than a fallback. 

npm install -g @iowarp/clio-coder
clio-coder configure
clio-coder
experimental v0.3.7 on npm
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Now / Aug 2026

Where my attention is

My own commits go into Clio Coder, the coding agent for the people who maintain the code that science runs on. Around it is CLIO, the context layer my team is building through IOWarp, and I hold its architecture together.

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Selected work

Ideas carried into the world

Papers, releases, code, and lessons stay attached to the systems they help explain.

active 2026–present

Clio Coder

The coding agent I built for the people who maintain the code that science runs on. Your models, your machines, and a receipt for everything it did.

code iowarp/clio-coder
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active 2025–present

CLIO

A context layer for scientific work. I lead it as its overall PI and architect; my team builds the pieces; together it is where IOWarp becomes something a scientist can actually run.

code IOWarp organization on GitHub
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active 2024–present

IOWarp

The NSF-funded platform for moving and shaping scientific data for agentic workflows, and the ground that CLIO stands on.

code IOWarp organization
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Recent journal

Notes from the workbench

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This site is now a studio

akougkas.io relaunched. Four sections, Clio Coder up front, a project atlas that accounts for everything, and old links that still work.

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essay

Context is part of the system

A capable model still fails when the system hands it the wrong slice of reality. CLIO's answer is to treat context like a database treats state, and to seal a receipt.

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The Chicago skyline across Lake Michigan beneath a field of summer clouds.
Chicago, seen from Montrose Harbor. The city where a new research path became a life of building.

A human coordinate

Curiosity needs somewhere to return to.

This site is a durable place for useful details, unfinished questions, and occasional personal notes that do not belong in an institutional catalog.

A little more about me