Flagship

The systems that carry the current direction.

  1. CLIO

    flagship platform beta PI and architect

    Context Layer for Input/Output. The agentic-science ecosystem built through IOWarp: a tiered context store, a scientific tool kit, science agents, a remote-execution relay, a terminal front end, and the coding agent.

    Components ship at their own pace. Core and Kit are released and maintained; Agent is beta; Coder is experimental; Researcher and Bench are private.

  2. Clio Coder

    developer tool experimental created and maintained

    A terminal coding agent for scientific and HPC software. Local models are the design target, the model never gets a raw shell by default, work goes to bounded workers across a cluster, and every run seals a receipt.

    v0.3.7 on npm as @iowarp/clio-coder; experimental, interfaces may change before 1.0.

  3. IOWarp

    flagship platform maintained co built

    The NSF-funded platform for context orchestration in scientific computing. Its runtime, transfer and assimilation engines, and tool kit are the ground CLIO stands on.

    Active 2024–2029; PI Xian-He Sun; I am a co-PI and the architect of the CLIO layer.

Systems research

Data and I/O systems built with the Gnosis Research Center. GRC keeps the complete institutional record.

  1. LABIOS

    research system experimental co built

    Label-based I/O. A request carries its intent, so the storage system can schedule and transform it.

    Public 2.1.0-rc.1 branch for development and evaluation; patent US11630834B2.

  2. Hermes

    completed system completed project lead

    Multi-tier distributed I/O buffering that became versioned middleware under The HDF Group.

    Complete since 2024; final public release v1.2.1.

  3. ChronoLog

    research system released co built

    A distributed, tiered log store that orders data by time.

    Active; public v3.0.0.

  4. DTIO

    completed system completed co built

    Task-based I/O that turns traditional operations into distributed, schedulable work.

    Complete; prerelease tagged for SSDBM 2025.

  5. DeepIO and DLIO

    research system maintained co built

    I/O for deep-learning workloads. DLIO, the benchmark, now generates MLPerf Storage workloads.

    DLIO v2.0.1 maintained by the Argonne team and collaborators.

  6. Coeus

    completed system completed co built

    Metadata-aware I/O adapters for in-situ scientific workflows.

    Institutional record marks the project complete; v0.1 prerelease.

  7. IRIS

    archived project completed project lead

    A unified I/O layer over POSIX files and object stores, from my doctoral work.

    Complete since 2023.

Developer tools I maintain

Small public tools with a real install path.

  1. ZulipChat MCP

    developer tool beta created and maintained

    A small MCP server that lets an agent read, search, and take part in Zulip conversations.

    v0.7.2 on PyPI.

  2. WTF-P

    writing workflow released created and maintained

    A staged research-writing workflow for coding agents. Spec, outline, section plans, isolated drafts, review.

    v0.5.0 on npm. A material-science variant, wtf-ms, lives in the IOWarp organization.

  3. CiteNexus MCP

    developer tool experimental created and maintained

    Gives agents native access to academic paper search and metadata.

    Public prototype.

  4. Smart Clipboard MCP

    developer tool experimental created and maintained

    A shared, searchable clipboard for a person and their coding agent.

    Public prototype.

  5. paper-to-md

    developer tool experimental created and maintained

    Converts scientific paper PDFs into Markdown an agent can read.

    Public prototype.

  6. hdf5-agent

    prototype experimental created and maintained

    A single-file agent that answers natural-language questions about HDF5 files.

    Public prototype from early 2025; the idea carried into CLIO Kit's HDF5 server.

Agent runtime experiments

Private prototypes about orchestration, context, and observability. I am preparing several of these for public release.

  1. PanCode

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    A runtime for autonomous multi-agent workflows where each agent runs in its own bounded context.

    Private prototype.

  2. AWOC

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    A lightweight, developer-first agent orchestration framework.

    Private prototype.

  3. Protoneo

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    A multi-agent deliberation runtime.

    Private prototype; preparing for public release.

  4. Pythia

    experiment experimental created and maintained

    Speculative dispatch for multi-agent orchestration: a cheap prediction runs beside an expensive optimization, and alignment improves over time.

    Public research code.

  5. Argus

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    A probe that watches what an agent does through vision-model analysis of its screen.

    Private prototype; preparing for public release.

  6. ctx-rm

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    A context-removal agent that keeps long-running coding agents from drowning in their own history.

    Private prototype; preparing for public release.

  7. AutoTLDR

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    Generates compact context bundles so an agent can pick up a task without rereading everything.

    Private prototype; preparing for public release.

  8. Agentic Survey

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    Structured interviews with AI agents on any topic, with typed outputs.

    Private prototype; preparing for public release.

Knowledge and writing prototypes

Tools for reading, writing, and keeping track of research.

  1. ClaimTree

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    A claim genealogy system for tracking how a piece of knowledge evolves.

    Private prototype; preparing for public release.

  2. Notient

    prototype private prototype created and maintained private

    An LLM-powered Obsidian note processor that labels, tags, annotates, and links notes.

    Private prototype; preparing for public release.

  3. Aletheia

    experiment experimental created and maintained

    A multi-agent system that looks for hidden methodology breaks in official statistics.

    Public research code.

CLIO precursors and extensions

Earlier experiments that fed the CLIO components, and extensions built on the toolkit.

  1. IOWarp HPC toolkit

    archived project archived created and maintained private

    The earlier MCP toolkit that turned a general agent into a science partner. Superseded by CLIO Kit.

    Archived precursor; the private repository is kept for history.

    • iowarp-mcp private
    • hdf5-mcp-server private An HDF5 MCP proxy for remote files; folded into the toolkit line.
  2. Claude Code and Gemini CLI for science

    developer tool experimental created and maintained

    Scientific-computing extensions for two coding assistants, built on the IOWarp toolkit.

    Public, from 2025; CLIO Kit is the maintained path now.

  3. Warpio CLI

    archived project archived historical

    The 2025 CLI companion for IOWarp, a fork I experimented with before Clio Coder existed.

    Archived; Clio Coder is the successor.

Initiatives and this site

Organizational work and the notebook itself.

  1. Building GRC

    institutional initiative maintained project lead

    Co-founding and directing the Gnosis Research Center.

    Active since 2023.

  2. akougkas.io

    writing workflow maintained created and maintained

    This site. Jekyll, validated content contracts, static redirects, and a dependency-free browser layer.

    Relaunched August 2026.

The rest of the ledger

Counted so nothing disappears, unnamed until there is something worth saying.

  • 15 private experiments without a public name yet: one-off tools, concept notes, and early rewrites from 2022 onward. Each one is counted here and will be named when there is something worth saying about it.
  • 9 public repositories that are forks kept for reference, placeholders, or experiments outside this studio's direction.
  • 4 repositories withheld on purpose: personal machine configuration, home-lab configuration, personal finance tooling, and a retired website prototype.

The complete institutional catalog, including projects I did not lead, lives at GRC.