Projects

Four things I built recently, all in 2026, all with agents in the loop. Each page shows screenshots from the running software, what the thing does, and specifically how AI was used to build it, with the commit numbers to back the claim.

Project What it is Where Commits · AI share
INTERLOCK Release orchestration control plane. Deploy is not release. Metafora 123 · 85%
Helix Change intelligence that survives the refactor. Personal 1,736 · 69%
Cloud Topology Toolkit Spec-driven infrastructure visualization. Metafora 630 · 85%
Runnin' Mules! Real-time multiplayer racing arcade. Personal 511 · 70%

AI share = commits carrying an AI co-author trailer or authored directly by a coding agent, over total commits across all branches. Method and caveats: Building with AI.

Plus one from the archive: Requirements to Code Mapper (CodePlex, 2010), the ancestor of Helix, internally named Helix back then too.

At a glance

INTERLOCK

The INTERLOCK Yard: work grouped by readiness, each card showing its branch, PR number, and the evidence behind its verdict

Assembles dependency-ordered release candidates from work that is provably ready, proves them on an ephemeral siding, promotes them to production deployed-but-dark at zero traffic, and exposes them only by deliberate, attributed feature-flag flips. Reverse-engineered from a Claude Design handoff into a real spec with GitHub Spec Kit; the research pass overruled the prototypes on three points where the platforms couldn't keep their promises.

Helix

Helix requirements explorer, an epic rendered as a universe of repos and anchored files

Ties a ticket to the exact span of code that implements it, stores that link as a file committed beside the code, and keeps it pinned through refactors. Ships an MCP server and two named research agents so coding agents maintain the links themselves, behind a CI gate that re-validates every agent proposal and refuses unreviewed ones. Sixteen years in the making: see the 2010 CodePlex original, which was also called Helix.

Cloud Topology Toolkit

Cloud Topology Toolkit network view: topology rendered as racks, subnet switch faceplates, and patch cables

One intermediate representation fed by Terraform plans, Helm charts, live Kubernetes, and live cloud state; read by eight renderers including an interactive SPA. GitHub Copilot's coding agent authored 117 commits outright, working the issue queue.

Runnin' Mules!

Runnin' Mules stadium overview: grandstands, mowed infield, tote board, and the full oval track

The counter-example, and a dream carried home from a casino floor. A solo developer in a domain with no requirements document, using generative AI across four disciplines I don't practice (3D character art, rigged animation, broadcast voice, splash illustration), still produced a deployed, monitored, security-reviewed, continuously released product, with the physical racetrack's control stack in the same repo. Playable live at runninmules.christaylor.ai.