AI Engineer · Full Stack Architect · Founder @ NorahLabs

Building production AI systems from Nairobi, Kenya. Coding-agent harnesses, agentic orchestration, and native desktop applications — serious AI tooling that runs on your own machine, on open-weight and local models, without cloud lock-in.

The Private AI Workstation — a native desktop workspace where you drive an AI to plan, build, review and test real projects, and a weaker local model performs like it knows your codebase.

macOS / Linux / Windows · atlarix.dev

Atlarix is a workstation you bring any AI model into — it uses AI, it doesn't make it. What makes a weaker model punch above its weight isn't a bigger prompt, it's the harness: enforced tool approvals, an OS-level execution sandbox, and verified edits mean the model's mistakes are caught by the system, not trusted on faith. Any-model BYOK, local-first execution, every destructive action behind your approval.

What makes it different:

• The harness, not the model — a weaker or local model performs reliably because the system enforces correctness, rather than hoping the model gets it right. Broad model support via BYOK (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Together, Mistral, xAI, Hugging Face) plus local Ollama / LM Studio, and a managed tier for people who don't want to manage keys at all.
• Harness-managed agent control — tool approvals, background commands, waits, and sub-agents are enforced by the harness, not the prompt, so a weaker model can't emit a premature completion or mismanage a wait.
• Verified edits — in Build / Debug the agent runs the project's own checks (tsc/eslint/ruff/mypy/pytest) through a sandboxed terminal and can't declare a task done while they fail.
• OS-level execution sandbox — per-OS write-confining command execution (Linux Landlock, Windows AppContainer, macOS Seatbelt), an approval queue with hunk-level diff accept/reject, a danger gate, and committable permission + hook rules at a single execution funnel.
• Fast search, no index — bundled-ripgrep grep and glob over your workspace: no index to build, no background watcher, constant low memory at any repo size.
• Atlarix Core — a managed tier with a pay-as-you-go credit wallet; no API key required, with a full BYOK / local free tier.
• Parallel sub-agents — the task tool fans out up to five concurrent read-only scouts per turn, live thinking streamed per agent.
• Token-efficient by design — on-demand tool-driven retrieval and model-triggered compress_context; provider-native tool blocks and prompt caching lift weak / local model performance.
• Real workspace — interactive PTY terminal (persists across restarts), in-app browser, @ file/folder mentions scoped to the current workspace, per-workspace MCP, and any Agent Skill or MCP server dropped straight in.

Work modes: Explore (read-only) · Plan · Build · Debug · Review (correctness + security)

As an open-source contributor, I've landed quality work into major repos using Atlarix on open-weight models — including Qwen Code, Traefik,Apollo-Client, Crawlee & PDFDing .

Blueprint: Section-Scoped Structural Graph Retrieval and Post-Turn Compression for Agentic LLM Coding in Multi-Repository Workspaces Amariah Abishai, NorahLabs — 2026 · published research

A peer-reviewed paper documenting the Blueprint architecture — a section-scoped structural index (Universal Ctags symbol graph + ast-grep edges + SQLite FTS5) that handed the agent structural understanding in ~6,500 tokens instead of a whole-repo dump — alongside post-turn tool-result summarisation and results from a controlled A/B evaluation on a production multi-repository workspace, including a counterintuitive finding: structural confidence lets the agent explore more, using more total context but producing stronger results. Blueprint was a research effort; Atlarix's current retrieval takes a different, lexical approach.

atlarix-skills — Community Agent Behaviors registry. SKILL.md files teaching agents language patterns and framework conventions across React, Next.js, Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Docker, MCP, and more. Apache 2.0.

atlarix-mcps — MCP server registry for Atlarix. One-click connections to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and more from within the agent environment. Apache 2.0.

atlarix-releases — Desktop app release builds for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Praxia — AI healthcare assistant with MONAI X-ray analysis (pneumonia, fractures, tumours), multilingual symptom diagnosis, real-time WebSocket chat, and a Docker/Nginx/Celery production stack.

Commit Checker — Open source CLI for Git commit analysis.