Secure agent systems, local inference, cross-platform engineering, CUDA research, and scientific machine learning.
This snapshot separates code authorship, co-author credit, committers, salvage lineage, and pull-request state. Those signals overlap, so the counts below are not additive. The evidence was checked against the public GitHub repositories on 2026-11-01 JST.
The public main history contains 18 commits with zapabob as the GitHub author. Fourteen of those commits name a maintainer as committer, and four contain a Co-authored-by trailer. The latter two categories overlap with the author-commit count; they describe credit metadata, not additional commits.
The author-filtered pull-request search returns 164 PRs: 1 merged, 5 open, and 158 closed without merge. Twenty-two PR descriptions explicitly mention salvage. That records the stated lineage or continuation context; it does not mean every patch was accepted upstream.
| Evidence type | Example | State and attribution |
|---|---|---|
| Merged PR | #68382 — update protobufjs | Merged 2026-07-29 |
| Salvage / continuation | #114613 — provider fallback policy | Closed without merge; body preserves the original implementation and Omar Baradei’s authorship from open PR #63418 |
| Salvage of an incomplete fix | #70343 — GitHub Skills Hub fetches | Closed without merge; describes follow-up work on #63920 |
| Open proposal | #126301 — recover partial Windows pauses | Open at the snapshot date |
| Open proposal | #142749 — share the compression token budget | Open at the snapshot date |
Additional source links: all author-attributed upstream commits, all authored Hermes PRs, and the upstream Hermes Agent repository.
zapabob/Strata is a fork of Niko1221/Strata. At this snapshot, its main has 208 commits ahead of and none behind the upstream main; all 208 commits identify zapabob as author, and 33 include co-author trailers. These are fork-development figures, separate from upstream acceptance.
One upstream change has maintainer-preserved credit: PR #3954 is closed without a merge record, while its change appears in an upstream commit authored by zapabob and committed by Niko1221. The fork also has three open proposals: #4248 — local inference silence timeout, #4249 — 1K/2K local GGUF contexts, and #4250 — record child absence before publishing host state.
| Area | Examples |
|---|---|
| Agent security and data boundaries | SSRF redirect checks, credential-path filtering, provider URL validation, archive extraction limits |
| Runtime reliability | Tool-call preservation, provider errors, session state, compression limits and recovery |
| Desktop and cross-platform work | Windows update recovery, model selection, standard-pipe handling, file sync and local-provider behavior |
| Strata inference workflow | Model-setting validation, small-context GGUF loading, host lifecycle and local inference timeout controls |
| Project | Focus | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Strata | Upstream fork development for local inference workflows | A 208-commit fork delta with separate co-author and upstream-PR evidence |
| hermes-agent | Agent runtime, plugins, tools, desktop and local AI workflows | Ongoing implementation, salvage and upstream contribution work |
| Turboquant-CUDA | KV-cache quantisation and CUDA measurement | Reproducible LLM systems analysis and model-efficiency experiments |
| multi-target-pIC50-predictor | Transformer-based drug-discovery modelling | Scientific ML with molecular descriptors, receptor targets and Optuna |
| elastic-looped-transformer | Experimental Transformer research | Architecture implementation, self-distillation and GRPO experiments |
| jaxa-earth-vrchat-terrain | Earth-observation to VR pipeline | Data engineering across JAXA inputs, Blender, Unity and VRChat |
| liltoon-pcss-extension | Unity shader tooling | Production-minded C# and Unity extension development |
AI / ML Python · PyTorch · Transformers · RDKit · Optuna
Agent systems Hermes Agent · Tool execution · Plugins · MCP · Local-first AI
Frontend TypeScript · React · Electron · WebUI · TUI
Systems Rust · CUDA · Docker · Windows · Linux
Spatial C# · Unity · Blender · VRChat
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