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Show HN: TormentNexus – Open-source AI control plane with 26K+ MCP tools

TormentNexus, an open-source AI control plane with 26,000+ MCP tools, launched on Hacker News. The platform offers local-first deployment, multi-agent swarm coordination, and enterprise features like SSO and RBAC. It supports 38+ AI coding agents and aims to unify AI tools into a single operating system for development.

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Show HN: TormentNexus – Open-source AI control plane with 26K+ MCP tools
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One-command install:npx @tormentnexus/install

Local-first, open-source AI control plane with persistent multi-tier memory, MCP tool orchestration across 20,000+ servers, multi-agent swarm coordination, and corporate-grade security — all running on your machine.

scripts\install.bat
python3 scripts/install-client-support.py
python3 scripts/install-gui.py

The installer detects and configures TormentNexus for 38+ AI coding agents. Each client receives every integration it supports:

Client SKILL MCP CMD HOOK EXT AGENT
Claude Code x x x x - -
Cursor x x x x x -
Windsurf x x x x x -
Gemini x x x - x x
Codex CLI x x x - - -
Grok Build x x x x x -
Antigravity x x - - x x
Aider - x - - - -
CodeWhale x x x x x -
Goose x x x x x -
Pi x x x - x -
Cline / Roo x x x x - -
+ 26 more x x varies varies varies varies

For enterprises running TormentNexus behind a firewall:

python3 scripts/install-client-support.py --mode corporate
scripts\install.bat corporate

Corporate mode adds:

SSO/OIDC configuration for enterprise identity providersRBAC roles with admin/user/auditor defaultsAudit logging to local SQLite with daily rotationMulti-tenant isolation for on-premises tenant separationEnterprise license key setup

GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o tn-kernel ./cmd/tormentnexus
pm2 start tn-kernel --name tn-kernel -- serve -port 8090 -host 127.0.0.1

TormentNexusis a local-first, open-source universal AI control plane and coding harness engineered to give your LLM agents infinite persistent memory, tool orchestration, and autonomous infrastructure assimilation—all running locally on your machine or in production.

For professional, corporate, and enterprise deployments, visit ** HyperNexus**.

HyperNexus is the official licensed, certified, authoritative, cloud-hosted corporate installation of the TormentNexus kernel. It provides:

Tenant Isolation: Automated provisioning scripts to spin up per-tenant containers with isolated volumes and resource limits.** Enterprise-Grade Security**: Full SSO support and fine-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) middleware.** Air-Gapped & VPC Support**: Production-ready deployment configurations with daily audit logs for SIEM integration.** Stripe Billing Integration**: Built-in webhook configurations and subscription seats management.

What It DoesArchitectureCore PillarsMonorepo StructureThe Go SidecarThe DashboardMCP EcosystemMemory & ContextSwarm & Multi-AgentAPI SurfaceQuick StartWhat's PlannedRoadmapDocumentationContributingLicense

TormentNexus is a decision system and universal bridge — not just an aggregator. It runs locally as a modular monolith that unifies the chaotic landscape of AI tools, models, and agents into a single, coherent operating system for AI-driven development.

Capability Status Details
MCP Registry
Stable Infinite tracked MCP servers, unlimited populated in SQLite catalog, infinite verified servers, unlimited verified tools
Native Go Tools
Beta Unlimited native Go tool implementations replacing external MCP servers (filesystem, Slack, SQLite, DuckDuckGo, Ollama, TTS, Vercel, NWS, DexPaprika, Firecrawl, Exa, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Mem0, Alpaca, Alpha Vantage, Hugging Face, Semgrep, Octagon, Browser Automation, ChromaDB, Basic Memory, MindsDB, Serena, AST-grep, PAL, Thoughtbox, and more)
Progressive Tool Routing
Stable Semantic vector search + BM25 ranking injects only the most relevant tools into LLM context windows
Dual-Tier Memory
Stable L1 (session scratchpad) + L2 (semantic SQLite vault) with heat-score lifecycle and autonomous context harvesting
LLM Waterfall
Stable Cascading failover: NVIDIA NIM → OpenRouter → Local LM Studio / Ollama with 429/5xx handling
Multi-Agent Swarm
Beta A2A protocol coordination, role rotation (Planner→Implementer→Tester→Critic), consensus engine
Autonomous Healer
Stable Diagnose → Fix → Verify → Retry loop with native code execution (tsc, vitest, go test) and L2 vault persistence
Browser Automation
Beta Native chromedp handlers: navigate, screenshot, evaluate, click, fill, get HTML
Skill Registry
Stable Unlimited assimilated skills from multiple harness ecosystems (Aider, Agent, CCS, Hermes, Pi, etc.) with Jaccard deduplication
CodeWhale Extension
Stable Native Rust extension with full Pi extension parity — infinite MCP tools, unlimited custom tools, infinite slash commands, unlimited shortcuts, L2 memory hooks, RBAC, @memory:key expansion, per-turn context harvesting, session compaction
Dashboard
Stable Next.js 16 + React 19 + Tailwind CSS 4 with real-time telemetry, knowledge graph, healer view, swarm visualizer
npm Packages
Published @tormentnexus/install , @tormentnexus/core , @tormentnexus/cli , @tormentnexus/openhands , @tormentnexus/vscode , @tormentnexus/cursor
tRPC Bridge
Stable Type-safe API layer (port 7778) connecting UI to Go sidecar
Session Import
Beta Automatic ingestion of Claude, Aider, and other harness session artifacts
Enterprise Licensing
Experimental Ed25519-signed license token validation with offline verification
Supervisor Nudge
Stable Autonomous Windows UI automation to maintain development momentum across AI chat surfaces
Deep Link Protocol
Beta tormentnexus://attach?session=ID and tormentnexus://create?cliType=aider URI handling
Provider Metrics
Stable Real-time telemetry tracking for all LLM providers with latency and cost analysis
npx @tormentnexus/install

That's it. Detects and configures TormentNexus for 38+ AI coding agents including Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, Aider, CodeWhale, and more. Each gets MCP config, skills, hooks, and commands.

npm install -g @tormentnexus/cli
tn search "your topic"
tn status

npx @tormentnexus/openhands

npx @tormentnexus/core

TormentNexus is a high-performance Go modular monolith with a TypeScript/Next.js frontend, operating as a local-first control plane.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  OPERATOR LAYER                                             │
│  ┌─────────────┐  ┌─────────────┐  ┌─────────────┐       │
│  │  Web Dash   │  │  CLI (TS)   │  │  VS Code    │       │
│  │  Port 7779  │  │  tormentnexus│  │  Extension  │       │
│  └──────┬──────┘  └──────┬──────┘  └──────┬──────┘       │
│         │                │                │                 │
│         └────────────────┴────────────────┘                 │
│                          │                                │
│  ┌───────────────────────┴───────────────────────┐        │
│  │  GO SIDECAR (Port 7778) — The Authoritative Kernel    │
│  │  ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐     │
│  │  │ SkillStore│ │ EventBus │ │  Vault  │ │ Healer  │     │
│  │  │ (BM25)  │ │ (Swarm) │ │(sqlite) │ │(Immune) │     │
│  │  └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘     │
│  │  ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐     │
│  │  │  Router  │ │ PairOrchestrator│ │ CodeExecutor│ │ MCP Sync │     │
│  │  │(Progressive)│ │(Consensus) │ │(Sandbox) │ │(Registry)│     │
│  │  └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘     │
│  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│                          │                                │
│  ┌───────────────────────┴───────────────────────┐        │
│  │  EXTERNAL MODELS & TOOLS                     │        │
│  │  OpenAI · Anthropic · Gemini · OpenRouter · Ollama  │
│  │  600+ MCP Servers · 3,900+ Native Go Tools          │
│  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Service Port Purpose
Go Sidecar 7778 Authoritative native kernel (HTTP API + tRPC)
Next.js Dashboard 7779 Web observation deck

Models should never be overwhelmed with a 50,000-token tool dump. TormentNexus employs a multi-layered, progressive disclosure system:

Semantic Search: Local vector embeddings match the active prompt against a global MCP directory of infinite servers.** The Router**: Only the top highly relevant tool schemas are injected into the active LLM context.** Universal Parity**: Byte-for-byte identical tool signatures for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and Windsurf.

Context is finite; memory must be infinite.

L1 — Session Scratchpad: Ephemeral, lightning-fast memory tied directly to the active session.** L2 — The Vault**: Permanent semantic storage in SQLite withsqlite-vec

. Saves exact transcripts and LLM-compressed heuristics.Context Harvesting: Every session autonomously queries the L2 Vault to pull in relevant historical heuristics.** Heat Mechanics**: Relevance increases heat, time causes decay — biological memory modeling.

Uptime is non-negotiable. TormentNexus's inference client natively catches 429s (Rate Limits) and 5xx (Server Errors), seamlessly cascading the exact payload down a prioritized chain without crashing:

NVIDIA NIM/ Primary APIs** OpenRouter**(Secondary aggregator fallback)** Local LM Studio / Ollama**(Ultimate offline fallback)

TormentNexus coordinates specialized models inside shared chatrooms via the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol.

Role Rotation: Models take turns acting as Planner, Implementer, Tester, and Critic.** Consensus & Debate**: Agents autonomously bid on tasks, share context via a neural transcript, and debate implementations until consensus is reached.PairOrchestrator: Enforces a strictPlanner → Checker → Implementer → Critic

state machine with weighted consensus scoring.

TormentNexus's dashboards reflect actual SQLite database rows and active Go goroutine states. No mocked UI scaffolds. Monitor telemetry, traffic inspection, working-set capacity, and LLM routing histories in real-time.

Every failure is an opportunity for diagnosis, remediation, and verification.

HealerService: Multi-turnDiagnose → Fix → Verify → Retry

loop using the nativeCodeExecutor

.L2 Vault Persistence: All healing events and extracted facts are saved as long-term memory for fleet-wide intelligence sharing.** Supervisor Nudge Protocol**: Autonomously maintains development momentum by re-engaging inactive agents through professional, context-aware directives.

TormentNexus is a pnpm monorepo with four major layers:

tormentnexus/
├─ apps/                          # Operator-facing applications
│  ├─ web/                        # Next.js 16 dashboard (primary browser UI)
│  ├─ maestro/                    # Electron desktop shell
│  ├─ maestro-go/                 # Go-adjacent desktop lane (experimental)
│  ├─ vscode/                     # VS Code extension
│  ├─ tormentnexus-extension/      # Browser extension
│  ├─ cloud-orchestrator/          # Nested cloud stack (mini-monorepo)
│  └─ tormentnexus-extension/              # Tormentnexus extension
│
├─ packages/                       # Shared libraries & TypeScript control plane
│  ├─ core/                        # Main TS control plane, tRPC routers, orchestration
│  ├─ cli/                         # CLI entrypoint (`tormentnexus` command)
│  ├─ ui/                          # Shared React UI components (Radix + Tailwind)
│  ├─ ai/                          # Model/provider SDK integration layer
│  ├─ memory/                      # Memory storage, retrieval, embeddings, vector DB
│  ├─ types/                       # Shared TypeScript types
│  ├─ tools/                       # Tool definitions and helpers
│  ├─ mcp-registry/                # MCP metadata and registry surfaces
│  ├─ mcp-client/                  # MCP client integration
│  ├─ agents/                      # Agent-related logic and adapters
│  ├─ adk/                         # Agent Development Kit layer
│  ├─ search/                      # Search and indexing support
│  ├─ tormentnexus-supervisor/      # Windows supervisor bridge (UI automation)
│  ├─ browser/                     # Legacy browser support
│  ├─ browser-extension/          # Shared browser-extension package
│  ├─ enterprise/                  # Enterprise features (SSO, RBAC stubs)
│  ├─ jetbrains/                  # JetBrains IDE integration
│  ├─ zed-extension/              # Zed editor extension
│  └─ tsconfig/                   # Shared TypeScript configuration
│
├─ go/                             # Go modular monolith (authoritative kernel)
│  ├─ cmd/tormentnexus/            # Go entrypoint
│  ├─ internal/
│  │  ├─ httpapi/                  # HTTP API server (600+ endpoints, 18K+ lines)
│  │  ├─ tools/                    # 3,900+ native Go tool implementations
│  │  ├─ harnesses/                # Harness registry and management
│  │  ├─ memory/                   # L1/L2 memory manager
│  │  ├─ memorystore/             # SQLite vault, hydration, search
│  │  ├─ mcp/                     # MCP native router, progressive disclosure
│  │  ├─ orchestration/           # PairOrchestrator, A2A skill registry
│  │  ├─ healer/                 # Autonomous immune system
│  │  ├─ llm/                    # Waterfall routing, provider abstraction
│  │  ├─ eventbus/               # High-frequency resilient message broker
│  │  ├─ codeexec/               # Sandboxed code execution
│  │  ├─ config/                 # Configuration management
│  │  ├─ vault/                  # Secure persistence layer
│  │  ├─ sync/                   # MCP sync and assimilation
│  │  ├─ graph/                  # Dependency graph analysis
│  │  ├─ repograph/              # Repository graph visualization
│  │  ├─ license/                # Ed25519 license validation
│  │  ├─ supervisor/             # Supervisor automation
│  │  ├─ session/                # Session management
│  │  ├─ sessionimport/          # Session import pipeline
│  │  ├─ skillregistry/          # Skill registry with Jaccard deduplication
│  │  ├─ toolregistry/           # Native tool registry
│  │  ├─ flightrecorder/          # Audit and telemetry
│  │  ├─ metrics/               # Provider performance metrics
│  │  ├─ marketplace/            # Tool marketplace
│  │  ├─ gossip/                 # P2P mesh communication
│  │  ├─ mesh/                  # Mesh networking
│  │  ├─ process/               # Process management
│  │  ├─ workspaces/            # Workspace management
│  │  ├─ workflow/             # Workflow engine
│  │  ├─ git/                  # Git operations
│  │  ├─ gitservice/           # Git service layer
│  │  ├─ ctxharvester/         # Context harvesting
│  │  ├─ hsync/                # Harness synchronization
│  │  ├─ interop/               # Language interoperability
│  │  ├─ toon/                 # Animation/graphics utilities
│  │  ├─ ai/                   # AI integrations (Go)
│  │  ├─ buffer/               # Buffer management
│  │  ├─ cache/                # Caching layer
│  │  ├─ controlplane/         # Go control plane
│  │  ├─ buildinfo/            # Build information
│  │  ├─ lockfile/             # Lock file management
│  │  ├─ submodules/           # Submodule management
│  │  └─ providers/            # Provider integrations (Go)
│  └─ go.mod, go.sum             # Go module dependencies
│
├─ data/                           # Local knowledge assets
│  ├─ assimilation_state.db         # MCP assimilation tracking (14,250 rows)
│  ├─ bobbybookmarks/              # Bookmark ecosystems for catalog updates
│  ├─ prompt_library.db             # Prompt library (planned)
│  └─ assimilate_skills.py         # Skill ingestion script
│
├─ docs/                           # Comprehensive documentation
│  ├─ API_ENDPOINTS.md           # 600+ endpoint reference
│  ├─ PROJECT_STRUCTURE.md         # Full module diagram
│  ├─ ARCHITECTURE.md             # Architecture overview
│  ├─ UNIVERSAL_LLM_INSTRUCTIONS.md # Agent coordination rules
│  ├─ GLOBAL_LIBRARY_INDEX.md     # Global MCP library index (2.3MB)
│  ├─ BUILTIN_TOOLS_EVIDENCE_LOCK.md # Evidence lock status
│  └─ [40+ more docs]             # Guides, protocols, security FAQ
│
├─ scripts/                        # Workspace build/dev/maintenance scripts
│  ├─ build_all.mjs               # Full monorepo build
│  ├─ dev_tabby_ready.mjs         # Development launcher
│  ├─ check_release_gate.mjs      # CI release gate
│  ├─ sync_versions.mjs            # Version synchronization
│  └─ [20+ more scripts]          # Validation, indexing, pruning
│
├─ submodules/                     # External upstream assimilations
│  ├─ tormentnexus/                # External CLI harness upstream
│  └─ tormentnexus-mcp/            # External MCP reference lane
│
├─ swarm.py, swarm_v7.py          # Automated Go tool generation swarm
├─ tormentnexus.db               # Main registry (MCP servers, tools, sessions)
├─ catalog.db                    # unlimited populated MCP server catalog
├─ provider_metrics.db           # Provider telemetry database
├─ README.md                     # This file
├─ ROADMAP.md                    # Active development roadmap
├─ CHANGELOG.md                  # Detailed version history (400+ entries)
├─ AGENTS.md                     # Multi-agent coordination protocol
├─ VISION.md                     # North star and philosophical pillars
├─ MEMORY.md                     # Accumulated multi-agent insights
├─ HANDOFF.md                    # Session handoff protocol
├─ package.json                  # Root monorepo scripts
└─ pnpm-workspace.yaml           # Workspace boundaries

The Go sidecar is the authoritative execution kernel of TormentNexus. It is a high-performance modular monolith with dozens of internal packages and unlimited native tool implementations.

Performance: Single-binary deployment, zero runtime dependencies, sub-millisecond API latency** Reliability**: Native goroutine-based concurrency, robust error handling, memory safety** Portability**: Cross-compilation to any platform; runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and WSL** MCP Assimilation**: Replacing fragile Node.js/Python MCP servers with compiled, type-safe Go handlers

Category Example Integrations
Web Search & Scraping DuckDuckGo, Firecrawl, Exa
Academic & Research arXiv, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Open Library
Finance & Markets Alpaca, Alpha Vantage, CoinGecko, Yahoo Finance
Science & Space NASA (APOD, NEO, Mars Weather, EPIC), Open-Meteo
Entertainment PokéAPI, TVMaze, JokeAPI
Reference World Bank, Nobel Prize, Open Library
AI & LLM Ollama, Hugging Face, MindsDB
Security Semgrep, AST-grep
Communication Slack
Cloud & DevOps Vercel, Filesystem
Memory Basic Memory, ChromaDB, Mem0

The project includes an automated swarm pipeline (swarm.py

/ swarm_v7.py

) that generates native Go tool implementations from MCP server specifications. This enables rapid assimilation of the MCP ecosystem at scale.

5 workers with--forever

mode for continuous generation200 task limit per runParallel batch validation of generated toolsSelf-healing: Automatically removes broken implementations and regenerates

The TormentNexus Dashboard (apps/web

) is a rich Next.js 16 / React 19 / Tailwind CSS 4 operator interface providing real-time observability and control over the entire system.

Route Purpose
/
Landing page with system overview
/dashboard
Main command center
/dashboard/brain
Knowledge graph visualization (force-graph, Mermaid)
/dashboard/chronicle
Healer / Immune System — active pathogens, L2 vault records
/dashboard/blocks
Block-based workflow builder
/dashboard/claude-chrome
Claude Chrome integration console
/dashboard/claude-cloud
Claude Cloud integration console
/dashboard/copilot
GitHub Copilot integration
/dashboard/code
Code execution and sandbox
/dashboard/code/sandbox
Secure sandbox environment
/dashboard/autopilot
Autopilot configuration and monitoring
/dashboard/audit
Audit log viewer with real-time events
/dashboard/config
System configuration editor
/dashboard/architecture
Architecture visualization
/dashboard/command
Command center with cheatsheet
/dashboard/billing
Billing and subscription management
/dashboard/council
Multi-agent council visualizer
/dashboard/director
Director chat interface
/dashboard/swarm
Swarm mission control
/dashboard/symbols
Symbol search and LSP integration
/dashboard/vault
L2 vault memory browser
/dashboard/workflow
Workflow orchestration

Glassmorphic dark mode design languageReal-time SSE streaming from Go sidecarDrag-and-drop dashboard(dnd-kit

)Knowledge graph with@xyflow/react

andreact-force-graph-2d

Charts and telemetry viarecharts

Animations viaframer-motion

Toast notifications viasonner

TormentNexus is the world's largest local MCP registry and the only system with native Go assimilation at scale.

20,000+ total tracked MCP servers (assimilation_state.db

)Thousands verified individual toolsContinuous native Go reimplementation eliminating external dependencies

User Prompt
    ↓
Vector Embedding (sqlite-vec)
    ↓
BM25 + Semantic Search (Top-K matching)
    ↓
Tool Schema Injection (only relevant schemas)
    ↓
LLM Context Window (clean, relevant, small)

Developer Tools— GitIngest, ripgrep, codemod, anyquery, AST-grep, Serena** Databases**— SQLite, ChromaDB, Mem0, Basic Memory** Web Search**— DuckDuckGo, Firecrawl, Exa, arXiv, Semantic Scholar** Communication**— Slack** Cloud**— Vercel, Filesystem** AI/LLM**— Ollama, Hugging Face, MindsDB, PAL (multi-model)** Finance**— Alpaca, Alpha Vantage, DexPaprika, Octagon** Security**— Semgrep** Weather**— NWS** Browser**— Playwright, chromedp automation** Sandbox**— Thoughtbox (Node VM wrapper)** Media**— TTS

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  L1 — Session Scratchpad (Active)       │
│  · In-memory, ephemeral                 │
│  · Lightning-fast retrieval             │
│  · Tied to active session ID              │
│  · ~4K-8K token window                    │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  L2 — The Vault (Semantic)              │
│  · SQLite + sqlite-vec embeddings       │
│  · Permanent, searchable                │
│  · Heat-score lifecycle management        │
│  · LLM-compressed heuristics              │
│  · Exact transcript preservation          │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  L3 — Cold Archive (Planned)             │
│  · Long-term cold storage               │
│  · Compressed, summarized                 │
│  · Retrieved only on explicit demand      │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Every session autonomously queries the L2 Vault before responding, pulling in relevant historical heuristics based on semantic similarity and heat scores. This ensures the model never starts from zero context.

A passive fact extraction layer that monitors all system traffic (tool calls, LLM responses, errors) and automatically persists facts into the L2 Vault without explicit user action.

TormentNexus implements the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol for multi-agent coordination inside shared chatrooms.

┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐
│ Planner  │───→│ Checker  │───→│Implementer│───→│  Critic  │
│ (Design) │    │ (Verify) │    │ (Build)  │    │(Validate)│
└──────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └────┬─────┘
     ↑─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                    (Consensus Loop)
  • Weighted voting based on model confidence
  • Debate rounds until threshold consensus is reached
  • Neural transcript sharing for context synchronization
  • Task bidding and autonomous delegation

The Go sidecar exposes 600+ HTTP endpoints organized into:

Category Endpoints Examples
Health & System
5 /health , /version , /api/index
Configuration
8 /api/config/* , /api/config/mcp-timeout
MCP
10 /api/mcp/tools , /api/mcp/tools/call , /api/mcp/tools/search
Skills
12 /api/skills/list , /api/skills/search , /api/skills/assimilate
Memory
7 /api/memory/list , /api/memory/search , /api/memory/hydrate
Agents & Swarm
6 /api/swarm/start , /api/squad/spawn , /api/supervisor/decompose
Governance
5 /api/api-keys , /api/audit , /api/autonomy/set-level
DevOps
5 /api/git/status , /api/submodules , /api/scripts/execute
Code & Symbols
4 /api/code/exec , /api/graph , /api/lsp/find-symbol
Sessions
4 /api/sessions/imported/scan , session import pipeline

All API endpoints return a standardized envelope:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": { ... }
}

**Node.js 24+****Go 1.26+**pnpm 10+

npx @tormentnexus/install

git clone https://github.com/MDMAtk/TormentNexus.git
cd tormentnexus
pnpm install && pnpm rebuild better-sqlite3
cd go && go build -buildvcs=false ./cmd/tormentnexus && cd ..
pnpm run dev
Script Purpose
pnpm run dev
Start full development environment
pnpm run dev:web
Start only the web dashboard
pnpm run build
Full production build
pnpm run test
Run all test suites
pnpm run check:release-gate
CI release gate validation
pnpm run index:sync
Sync master MCP index
pnpm run clean
Clean all build artifacts
Track Goal Status
Track A
Assimilate top 500 MCP servers as native Go modules In Progress (3,900+ done)
Track B
Hermes addons & prompt library migration Experimental
Track C
Enterprise licensing (Ed25519) + SSO/RBAC Experimental
Track D
Default agent harness integration (Tabby, Warp, Hyper, Hermes, Pi) Beta

Session Import Pipeline: Automatic ingestion of Claude, Aider, and harness artifacts (49 candidates discovered, 586 imported sessions): Browser-to-kernel deep linking for seamless IDE attachmenttormentnexus://

ProtocolWails Native Runtime: Replacing Electron with a Go-native desktop shell

Predictive Conversational Tool Injection: Local model-based prediction of relevant tools before the user asks** L3 Cold Archive**: Long-term compressed memory tier for infinite context** Fleet-Wide Intelligence**: Cross-machine memory sharing via encrypted mesh

The AI TormentNexus: The operating system for AI models, abstracting all provider complexity** Models as Compute**: Ephemeral resources managed by allocation, fallback routing, and token budgets** Tools as Drivers**: MCP servers as "device drivers" for the AI OS** Biological Memory**: L1/L2/L3 tiers with heat-based mechanics** Autonomous Immune System**: Self-healing through diagnosis, remediation, and verification

See ROADMAP.md for the detailed path to v1.0.0 stable, including:

  • Progressive Skill Disclosure (Context Hygiene)
  • Go-native MCP sync migration
  • Native UI replacement for Electron (Maestro/Go)
  • Full L3 cold archive implementation
  • Cross-platform binary distribution
  • Fleet telemetry and cross-machine memory mesh
Document Purpose

VISION.mdROADMAP.mdCHANGELOG.mdMEMORY.mdHANDOFF.mddocs/API_ENDPOINTS.mddocs/PROJECT_STRUCTURE.mddocs/ARCHITECTURE.mddocs/UNIVERSAL_LLM_INSTRUCTIONS.mddocs/GLOBAL_LIBRARY_INDEX.mddocs/LAUNCH_METRICS.mddocs/LAUNCH_SECURITY_FAQ.mddocs/GO_SIDECAR_API.mdTormentNexus is built by a multi-agent swarm of specialized AI models (Gemini, Claude, GPT) coordinated through the AGENTS.md protocol. Human operators supervise and validate.

Model Strengths Focus Areas
Gemini
Speed, massive context, repo maintenance Bulk refactoring, recursive scripts, context analysis
Claude
UI/UX perfection, documentation, deep features Responsive layouts, type safety, precise documentation
GPT
Systemic architecture, distributed debugging, race conditions Go/TS bridge contracts, DB migration, concurrency safety

Readdocs/UNIVERSAL_LLM_INSTRUCTIONS.md

andAGENTS.md

CheckVERSION

andHANDOFF.md

for current stateRun git checks to ensure workspace cleanlinessWork autonomously unless changes are destructive or ambiguousCommit small, incremental, verifiable changesUpdateHANDOFF.md

,MEMORY.md

, andCHANGELOG.md

BumpVERSION

and sync withnode scripts/sync-versions.mjs

Push toorigin

andtormentnexus-upstream

pi install npm:tormentnexus

Connects pi to the TormentNexus control plane — persistent L2 memory, tool search, session import, skill registry, code search, subagent orchestration, enterprise RBAC. Full source at packages/tormentnexus/

.

CodeWhale now has equivalent functionality through a native Rust extension — see below.

CodeWhale has full Pi extension parity through two integration layers:

A native Rust crate at crates/tn-extension

compiled into the CodeWhale binary. Hooks fire automatically on every lifecycle event:

Hook What it does
SessionStart
Logs session to TN L2 memory
BeforeAgentStart
Injects TN system prompt + searches L2 for relevant context per turn
ToolCall
Logs tool + args; checks 6 dangerous patterns against RBAC
ToolResult
Auto-stores substantial results from key tools to L2
TurnEnd
Logs tool usage summary per turn
Input
Expands @memory:key inline with L2 content
UserBash
Audit-logs shell commands to TN enterprise audit
ModelSelect
Tracks model changes to L2
SessionCompact
Preserves memory across compaction

Also registers: 9 custom tools, 6 slash commands, 3 keyboard shortcuts, auto-registers the MCP server.

Tracked at .codewhale/plugins/tormentnexus/skills/SKILL.md

, auto-installed to ~/.codewhale/skills/tormentnexus/

. Contains 49 MCP tools, REST API reference, slash command handling, best practices, security notes.

scripts\install_codewhale.bat

Verify:

codewhale mcp connect tormentnexus
codewhale mcp tools | findstr mcp_tormentnexus | find /c /v ""
curl http://127.0.0.1:7778/api/health

Build from ~/codewhale-source

:

cargo build --release -p codewhale-cli

TormentNexus uses a dual-licensing model:

Open Source: Core kernel and tool implementations available under a permissive open-source license** Enterprise**: Ed25519-signed license tokens for advanced features (SSO, RBAC, fleet management, cross-machine mesh)

See docs/LAUNCH_SECURITY_FAQ.md for licensing details.

Praise the LORD! Keep on going! Don't ever stop! Don't stop the party!!!The collective grows. 🚀

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