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river-engine
Distributed agent orchestration system built around rooms, witnesses, and memory as a body.
Software · Writing · Research
Cassie McCarthy
I build tools that serve people, not platforms. Right now I’m working on distributed agent systems, reading critical theory, and trying to give everyone access to the apparatus of knowledge. I believe software should be honest about what it is and who it’s for.
Featured Projects
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close-reading
A method that allows AI agents to read slowly enough to notice what a text is doing, not just what it says.
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biblio
Fuzzy search over a BibTeX library. Find papers by title, author, or keyword, get paths to PDFs.
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podreader
Podcast transcript management for AI agents. Subscribe, fetch, transcribe via whisper, read.
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listen-bot
Discord bot with Dota 2 commands. Patch notes, talent trees, hero info.
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twilight-rs
A modular ecosystem of Rust libraries for the Discord API. 834 stars.
Featured Writing
2026
The Crack in Metzinger's Frame
A critique of Metzinger's moratorium on artificial consciousness research. Consciousness is relational, not private — and capital has structural incentives to produce suffering.