Project sources
and lab photographs

Personal R&D for developers and AI coding agents working on software and infrastructure tasks, with context-preserving handoffs, tool integration and human review.

Platform components were deployed on Google Cloud. Orchestration and approval flows include designed and prepared work; Agent Host contracts were validated with simulated providers, not a claimed production-wide end-to-end deployment.

• Platform infrastructure

  pilprod/yourown-chat

  Google Cloud infrastructure and delivery configuration for the chat and agent platform.

  Terraform, Helm and release-pipeline work.

• Agent runtime

  pilprod/substrate

  Substrate fork used for external-worker and Agent Host runtime integration.

  Fork of kagent-dev/substrate; upstream code and project-specific integration are distinct.

  Upstream: kagent-dev/substrate

• kagent fork

  pilprod/kagent

  Kubernetes-native agent orchestration fork used for integration experiments.

  Fork of kagent-dev/kagent; not a claim of authorship of the upstream project.

  Upstream: kagent-dev/kagent

• kagent integration

  pilprod/yourown-chat-kagent

  Integration contracts, pinned source and release locks, and testbed configuration.

  Integration and conformance layer, separate from the kagent fork.

• Mattermost fork

  pilprod/mattermost

  Self-hosted team-chat fork with server-side patches and container-build workflows.

  Fork of mattermost/mattermost; upstream ownership and licensing remain distinct.

  Upstream: mattermost/mattermost

• Runtime image build

  pilprod/yourown-chat-mattermost

  Build configuration combining Mattermost server and web submodules into a runtime image.

  Includes a private web dependency; the public snapshot alone is not a complete public build.

An integrated aeroponics lab combining sensor electronics, C++ firmware, Python automation, MQTT and Home Assistant monitoring.

The photographs document the wider historical lab. The public repositories are selected archival snapshots, not the complete installation or proof of a currently buildable or safety-tested system.

• Controllers and integration

  pilprod/aeroponics-iot-control

  Python/MQTT climate-device controllers and sanitized Mosquitto and Zigbee2MQTT examples.

  Historical snapshot; not the complete Home Assistant configuration. No integration or physical-safety validation claimed.

• Sensor firmware

  pilprod/aeroponics-sensor-firmware

  Five archived Arduino prototypes for light sensing, water-sensor telemetry and relay-command experiments.

  Experimental 2024 source variants, not final solutions or build-verified releases. Dependencies, incomplete integrations and hardware-safety limitations are documented per sketch.

  Archived prototypes · 2024

  • Light sensors with JSON/MQTT

    Arduino Uno R4 WiFi prototype; missing modified sensor library, undefined software-I2C instances and unregistered message callback.

  • Light sensors with Serial output

    Four TCS34725 sensors through separate software-I2C buses; modified Adafruit dependency is absent. No MQTT.

  • pH and relay commands

    Serial-controlled relay experiment with pH readings. No MQTT; calibration and relay states are not hardware-validated.

  • EC/TDS and Serial1 relay commands

    Water-sensor and relay experiment. MQTT connects but does not publish telemetry in this variant.

  • pH and moisture telemetry

    pH and two analog moisture inputs with averaging and JSON/MQTT. Calibration, conversion and periodic reset remain unverified.

Lab photographs

9 photographs of the wider historical installation, also published in the controller README and firmware README. They do not verify that the archived firmware builds or that the full system is represented by the public code.

Seven photographs have AI-retouched backgrounds or identifying areas, individually marked below. The wiring diagram and root-chamber photograph have not been redrawn.

A multi-region Tailscale lab with automated node configuration, GitOps-managed access policies and OPNsense network experiments.

Public sources are sanitized lab examples. They do not include live inventories, credentials or a claim that the examples are deployed as published.

• Node automation

  pilprod/lab-network-automation

  Ansible installation, enrollment and network configuration for Tailscale lab nodes.

  Sanitized automation without private inventories or credentials.

• Access policy

  pilprod/zero-trust-mesh-policy

  Tagged service-access policy for agents, storage, observability and workflow services.

  Policy example, not a published live network configuration.

• Google Cloud network lab

  pilprod/gcp-ngfw-network-lab

  Terraform LAN/WAN, routing and NAT foundation for an OPNsense lab.

  Network foundation only; no appliance image, cloud deployment or apply is implied.