Six months ago I set out to make LLMs "smarter" by orchestrating many of them
together. I measured it. It didn't work. Here's what I shipped instead — and why
the failure is the part I'm proudest of.
The plan was "mitosis": split a task across several LLMs, let them multiply and
compete, then synthesize the best answer. It sounds great in a pitch deck.
On ground-truth executed tests, it made correctness worse:
Every gain was ≤ 0. So I deleted it. The full evaluation — including the failure —
is in the repo's FINDINGS.md
.
The lesson: an idea that survives a pitch is not the same as an idea that
survives a measurement.
BIOMA is a small, local, provider-agnostic kernel (Rust core + a thin Python
layer) that sits in front of any LLM call and hardens the payload in-process, before it leaves your machine.
from bioma.firewall_client import CognitiveFirewall
fw = CognitiveFirewall(vault={"db_password": DB_PW}) # secrets to protect
h = fw.shield(history, "refactor this function")
import anthropic # or google.genai, or openai
msg = anthropic.Anthropic().messages.create(
model="claude-sonnet-5", max_tokens=1024,
system=h.system or "", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": h.prompt}])
Three mechanisms, all measured:
Each context block gets a metabolic weight and a half-life; low-value blocks (old
logs, resolved chatter) are purged before dispatch.
0x0F
red alert → apoptosis.An atomic in-memory signalling substrate (~5µs) carries the alert state.
(Throughput benched at ~2M signals/s.)
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, or a local model — same layer. You harden the payload
here and hand it to your SDK.
The license is FSL-1.1-MIT: the code is source-available (read it, run it,
build on it), free for any non-competing use, and it auto-converts to MIT after two years. I'm a solo dev — I wanted it visible and auditable without
BIOMA isn't magic. The whole thing is one discipline: measure everything, and keep only what survives the measurement — even when that means deleting the
Repo (Rust + Python, benchmarks, and the honest FINDINGS.md
):
https://github.com/jonathascordeiro20/bioma-framework
What would you attack first? I'll be in the comments — especially happy to go deep
on the firewall's saturation heuristic or the mitosis eval.