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Vision

acidnet is amenoacids’ working estate: the apps he runs, the records of what he runs and pays for, and the stack they are built on, in one repository.

It grew out of rat-stack. rat-stack’s own vision, at the commit acidnet started from, is joelhooks/rat-stack VISION.md at b8df5c2. acidnet keeps its stack, its fence⁵⁰, and its reference code, and writes its own purpose here, as rat-stack asks of every project that grows out of it.

Scope³⁵: everything amenoacids builds and operates himself. That includes apps run from Amp threads and orbs, the infrastructure they deploy, and the registers that describe them.

Audience: amenoacids and the agents that work for him. This is solo work. Nobody else depends on it, and a bad deploy is cheap to roll back.

What lives here

• Apps in apps/*. session-review and steward run from Amp threads: they plan and journal, and a person approves before anything changes.
• Shared packages in packages/*. rat-stack’s packages stay as the floor. acidnet’s own additions are journal, workspace, and usage.
• Registers in registers/: what acidnet runs (machines) and what it pays for (subscriptions), filled only from evidence.
• Evals in scripts/eval and results/: whether a steering payload changes how a model behaves.

One repository, so shared code is shared, not copied. A package used by two apps lives in packages/, never as a vendored copy that drifts.

How changes land

• The local gate is the check. Lefthook runs pnpm check and pnpm test before every commit, and the VCS policy blocks every hook bypass. GitHub Actions runs only when started by hand.
• Agents do the work and report it. The owner reviews outcomes, not chores.
• Speed beats ceremony when the blast radius is small. Ask before anything that cannot be undone: deleting data, destroying infrastructure, or spending money.

Debt

• Code folded in from elsewhere may sit outside the strict lint and Effect diagnostics for a while. AGENTS.md lists each such path, and the list only shrinks.
• New code takes the rat-stack path from the start: a contract, a job-shaped port, an adapter outside core, and an observable outcome.

Needs sign-off

• Turning GitHub Actions back on for push or pull requests, or adding paid compute
• Weakening the local gate or the bypass fence
• Deleting a register entry, a journal, or any recorded evidence
• Destroying or replacing deployed infrastructure

Amendment policy

amenoacids amends this document. Agents may propose changes with evidence.

Last changed 2026-11-11 in 3cbaef0. Source on GitHub. Change log.