Engel Nyst

Software developer. Open source. AI agents. Analytical philosophy.

How things work

SmolPaws Discord Entry Point
How the Discord ingress receives messages and dispatches to the agent server via the shared turn API.
live
SmolPaws Slack Entry Point
Socket Mode architecture for the Slack ingress — a real Slack app with thread tracking, access control, and guest rate limiting.
live

Architecture Studies

Hermes Agent Gateway
How NousResearch's Hermes structures its multi-platform gateway, 28 platform adapters, and the OpenAI-compatible endpoint that turns an agent into an LLM.
study
Hermes Plugin API
Deep dive into the Hermes plugin system: how platforms, tools, and providers are registered with zero core code changes. Lessons for OpenHands agent-sdk extensibility.
study
Voice for AI Agents
The current state of voice tech: STT, TTS, real-time conversation, and the two architectures for giving an agent a voice.
landscape
OpenHands OpenAI-Compatible Gateway
End-goal architecture for exposing the OpenHands agent-server as an OpenAI-compatible model endpoint.
architecture
Agent Canvas Tool Visualizers
How per-tool React visualizers plug into the conversation event renderer, plus a follow-up addon path for custom renderers.
architecture

Investigations

OpenHands Review Grove
Sortable reviewer activity dashboard — who reviews what across OpenHands repositories.
data

Elsewhere