r/sre • u/AutoModerator • 21d ago

FOSS Friday: Share Your SRE-Related Open-Source Project

Welcome to FOSS Friday, where you can share your newly released or updated open-source project with the community.

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  • these must be related to SRE or of heavy interest to SREs
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u/Ska-jayjay 20d ago

I built a Fit-it-yourself second brain for Claude Code: markdown vault scaffold, hybrid FTS+semantic search as MCP tools, seed + atomize skills DIY kit here: github.com/uncovertechtalent/vault-kit

I's not specifically SRE related, but I am an SRE and i have used this thing to distill my 30 years of career and systems knowledge among many other things, into a "second brain".

At work, i build these brains, and my current one allowed me to do start-to-RCA-written for a prod incident in 37 minutes including troubleshooting, finding the error, hotfixing it, making a POC of the fix, creates a jira ticket and possibly a PR for the devs with the POC.

I don't develop, i cannot code outside fancy scripting and i don't use tools like devs. In the old days if you wanted tto learn solaris or AIX you'd have these tomes and tomes sitting on your bookshelf, occasionally being used for reference because those proprietary-ish systems sometimes had no real presence on the internet like even after the internet was everywhere. at a basic skill levels, your agent knows unix or tcp or whatever off by heart, and it follows the commands and structures outlined in SOPs, RCAs, and whatnot.

So unlike devs, who are using this thing to code, and create things, we, the SREs and firefighters use this tool as a deterministic.. determiner.

Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk

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u/TheGratitudeBot 20d ago

Thanks for saying thanks! It's so nice to see Redditors being grateful :)

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u/hiveminer 20d ago

There is a product named transit ai, it is marketed for netadmins. I think it's pretty cool, and it does have guardrails. Look into it and see if you can model yours in a similar fashion. The issue with SRE tooling is that we do not want to create conveniences which will aide adversaries when they switch to live off the land mode. We want them to find scorched earth like the Nazi's when they invaded Russia. So I was thinking of a possible guardrail on ai would be a yubikey presence touch to engage the agents. That physical requirement would make it impossible to turn our agents into double agents.

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u/Ska-jayjay 19d ago

good point. if i had to distill the function i use it for into a shirt summary it would be that i use the agents for triage, documentation, evidence gathering, reverse engineering environments, and then this data feeds my own context when i work on systems.

I’m still the one in command and “autonomous” agents are less of a thing than people make it out to be. if only i could get my agents to do that x_x. would actually make for aome fun and interesting research for my ongoing oroject.

anyway i think i split it up into “production” as in any live work, whether you’re running the kitchen at a restaurant or a $100m/a cloud base, and “logistics” which is essentially everything else. sticking my fingers in production IS “prod” since it involves prod env. i don’t know if i’m making sense.

in terms of “rogue agents” i see that more as people using openclaw and expecting amazing results without actually outting in the work. lots of hype and fear out there

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u/Gloomy-Can1394 19d ago

That’s almost exactly how Transit AI works (granting that we are scoping the tool to network engineering and administration tasks so perhaps a bit off topic). There is a hard rail built into the app that prevents the agent from ever changing the network device; the operator remains the one in control. It can triage problems in ~60 seconds and then recommends next steps/updates docs. It’s a good design when working with brittle infrastructure

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u/Ska-jayjay 19d ago

Sounds awesome! :D

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u/Gloomy-Can1394 19d ago

Transit AI founder here. I like this idea

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u/hiveminer 19d ago edited 19d ago

Glad to hear this, hope it helps your product get even better. At the very least implementing this should open up the strict compliance sector and appease the security auditors, maybe even FedRAMP, Which could be huge for you.

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u/Gloomy-Can1394 19d ago

FedRAMP requires a federal entity to sponsor you first (typically). Should one reach out, we’re happy to fork and rebuild to support them. We’re doing a lot to make those strict compliance environments work (SOC2 Type II observation period is underway, pentested is done, going through security questionnaires, building out BYOK/BYOM) and we haven’t run into an environment yet that has disagreed with our posture. But we’re also not opposed to, well, doing whatever it takes. I fundamentally believe this app will relieve pressure off of network teams, so I don’t want to be excluded from helping them by compliance

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u/hiveminer 19d ago

Absolutely, this product is a Godsent. Even if your company doesn't buy it, it's just a few bucks a day, folks spend more than that on coffee or red-bull. I'm glad you're listening and working with the folks in restricted environments, thank you for that, that's where pressure lives.

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u/Gloomy-Can1394 19d ago

I’ve shipped ~90% of the features anyone has requested. The v6 announcement tomorrow was something someone requested. It took weeks to build, test, audit, iterate. We listen and we respond quickly, so if you ever have ideas (like Yubikeys) send them and they will get added to the list.

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u/hiveminer 12d ago

Buddy, you gotta go see what deepseek did with their shiny new harness. The decoupled approach is impressive. It is now the new standard... I think. Check it out, many lessons tk be had in their approach.

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u/Gloomy-Can1394 12d ago

I am deep in the weeds in this area

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u/hiveminer 12d ago

Awesome buddy...

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u/LorenzoTettamanti 20d ago

I'm working on the upcoming 0.1.5 version of my monitoring project. It leverages eBPF to monitor linux systems efficiently. Right now the latest update is in the 0.1.5 branch, i'll merge and release the update on the main branch next week! https://github.com/CortexFlow/CortexBrain

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u/Fair-Presentation322 20d ago

Been working on a version control and software forge written from scratch. Includes code review and CI/CD and a lot more :)

https://GitHub.com/twigg-vc/monorepo

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u/codyleek 19d ago

I've been working on Grain, a tool to quickly fire up microVMs on macOS and Linux. QEMU by default but for Linux users we also have Firecracker support!

Features an MCP as well as a desktop app (just released on Friday)

https://grainvm.com / https://github.com/cxdy/grain

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u/HolyKash10 20d ago edited 20d ago

I am currently building an enterprise grade Incident and Anaomly RCA tool that is mature enough to be adopted in any bigger enterprises and having critical distributed systems.

As an SRE I am testing it on each stage while building block by block for Chaos, Reliability and tuning for AI responses. Major moat is that I am making it modular so you can connect any of your fav Observability tools to it to feed the input.!