Srinivas Pendela — useful agents remember.

$ echo $THESIS

Useful agents are more than better chat boxes. They remember what matters, stay close to the machine, and earn every bit of context they ask for.

tests passing · zero failures ⟨chitragupta⟩

11,500+

coding agents parsed for cost truth ⟨tokmeter⟩

19

model providers discovered ⟨kosha⟩

~30

benchmark corpus · measured honestly ⟨tokmeter⟩

77 GB

messaging channels · one assistant ⟨vaayu⟩

7

languages shipped to production ⟨ts·rust·go·swift·py⟩

5

post-quantum crypto in WASM ⟨wooosh⟩

152 KB

MCP tools · everything speaks agent ⟨cosmos⟩

97+

Not a pile of projects — a history. Chitragupta is the root commit; everything that remembers, routes, or measures branches from it.

• mode size modified name
• drwxr-xr-x 11,500 tests Jul 21 02:00 chitragupta चित्रगुप्त memory core # A memory-oriented AI agent platform that treats cognition as an engineering discipline — most of it running at zero LLM cost.
• -rwxr-xr-x 0 api keys Jul 18 09:15 takumi 匠 agent runtime # A Rust terminal coding agent that holds no API keys — Chitragupta owns routing and memory; Takumi owns execution.
• -rwxr-xr-x 7 channels Jul 19 11:42 vaayu वायु assistant surface # A multi-channel personal assistant that reaches you on seven messaging platforms and routes most requests without a single LLM call.
• -rw-r--r-- forging Jul 21 06:40 kshana क्षण almanac # A living Jyotisha almanac — Hora, Panchangam, divisional charts, and predictive timing, built to a Pixar-and-Apple craft bar.
• -rw-r--r-- 77 GB corpus Jul 16 14:30 tokmeter observability # Token and cost observability for AI coding agents — nineteen agents, five surfaces, benchmarked against a 77 GB corpus.
• -rw-r--r-- 45 providers Sep 19 19:29 kosha कोश model registry # A discovery registry for AI models, credentials, and pricing — the infrastructure my other tools stand on.
• -rw-r--r-- local-only Jul 14 19:27 auren finance # Local-first money clarity — every spend traceable to a source, every receipt readable in three scripts.
• -rw-r--r-- lossless Jul 15 08:51 pakt context economy # Lossless-first prompt compression for structured data — deterministic, model-free, and honest about where it loses.
• drwx------ firewalled Jul 13 23:59 grimoire knowledge vault # A local-first Markdown vault where AI agents work under a locality firewall — your journal never leaves the machine.
• -rw-r--r-- 152 KB Jul 20 21:33 wooosh p2p messaging # Serverless peer-to-peer messaging over Bluetooth, LAN, or internet — Double Ratchet, post-quantum hybrid, no accounts.
• -rw-r--r-- daemon Jul 12 03:14 harmon music daemon # A policy-driven music daemon — one control plane over Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, for humans and agents alike.
• -r--r--r-- 0 deps Jul 11 17:02 omit agent discipline # Omit needless code — an editorial discipline for AI coding agents, enforced outside the model.

$ cat /etc/sutras · 4 rules loaded

01 local_first

Local first

Your data lives on your machine. A daemon on loopback beats a service in someone else’s cloud. Software earns trust by never phoning home.

02 memory_layer

Memory is the missing layer

The agentic stack is amnesic. Useful agents remember what matters, stay close to the machine, and earn every bit of context they ask for.

03 one_engine

One engine, many surfaces

Build the core once — then let CLI, HTTP, MCP, web, and menubar all be thin readers of the same truth. A single writer owns the state.

04 honesty

Honesty over polish

Publish where the tool loses, label what is inferred, ship the benchmark harness. Faked confidence is how you lose people.