Creator of LevelUp CTF — a self-evolving, fully agentic AI Capture The Flag platform — and author of (S)AGE (Sovereign Agent Governed Experience), a new infrastructure layer for AI agents. Founder & CEO of Hack In The Box (HITB) — the premier deep-knowledge security conference series running since 2003. When I'm not building stuff, I'm thinking up solutions to problems nobody asked me to solve or practicing live modular techno with eurorack.
My current focus and what I think is the most important thing I've built. (S)AGE is a governed, verifiable, experience-weighted institutional memory layer for multi-agent systems. Infrastructure, not a library.
The problem: every AI agent today — even the frontier models — is Leonard Shelby from Memento. Brilliant within a session. Complete amnesia between sessions. We've been giving them better tattoo ink for years. (S)AGE cures the amnesia.
What it does: Agents propose knowledge from experience → validators vote using reputation-weighted Proof of Experience → BFT consensus commits it as institutional truth → future agents query governed, verified knowledge. Memories decay when stale, get challenged when wrong, and accumulate across agents and sessions.
The stack: CometBFT consensus (raw ABCI 2.0), Go state machine, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Protobuf txs, Python SDK, local embeddings via Ollama. Fully sovereign — zero cloud API calls. Two commands and you've got a 4-node consensus network running. 956 req/s submissions, 21.6ms P95 queries, 0% errors under load.
Why it matters: We spent decades building consensus for financial transactions. A bad transaction loses money. A bad institutional memory corrupts every future decision that relies on it. BFT consensus for knowledge isn't overkill — it's the minimum.
4 research papers published. Open-source under Apache 2.0. Because we don't gatekeep stuff.
Read the full story:
- Part 1: Leonard Shelby and the AI Memory Problem — what building a 12-agent CTF platform taught me about what's missing
- Part 2: Memories Are All We Are — the architecture, the threat model, and why I think this is what the road to AGI is missing
Links: GitHub | Architecture Paper (Zenodo) | Empirical Results Paper
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"Attention is all you need to think. But memories are all you are."