Zigbox · the organisation

Infrastructure software, made in the Age of the Agent.

Agents write the code here and people decide what it is for. We work by a short manifesto of rules that make that combination produce software you can trust.

Projects

A box, and a cube to put boxes in

Two projects, both written in Zig with nothing but its standard library, both pre-alpha, and both developed in the open.

Zigbox

container runtime · image store · builder

Rootless and daemonless. Images are Merkle trees of BLAKE3-hashed files, builds are sandboxed and reproducible, and every refusal says what it refused and why.

$ zbx pull alpine $ zbx run alpine sh # no daemon, no root

Status and demos →Source

Zigcube

orchestrator for Zigbox workloads

It runs only what it can verify. Nodes swap images as chunks and check each against its digest, the control plane can be simulated a seed at a time, and it can tell you why each replica is where it is.

$ zcube apply hello.zon $ zcube why service hello # every decision has a cause

Status and demos →Architecture Source

How we work

The Age of the Agent manifesto

Writing code has become cheap. Trusting it has not. Our manifesto is the short set of rules for how we spend the difference: agents write and people decide, a claim is a recorded run, review is by strangers.

A software manifesto

The Age of the Agent

Safety has to live in the substrate.
Composing safe components never silently produces an unsafe system.

age-of-the-agent.comRead the manifesto

The opening line

We are greeting the age of the agent by handing agents tools built for humans.

Reference

Shared between the projects

Error and warning codesEvery ZBX- and ZC- code, with its cause and fix. How Zigcube is builtThe core, the shell, and the seam between them. Zigbox on GitHubCode, briefs and decisions, all public.