The water works.
Water Works HQ is a collection of open-source AI developer tools built by a single developer. Every product is self-hosted and local-first — no cloud lock-in, no telemetry, no accounts required.
We build tools for the terminal and the protocol layer. The philosophy is simple: agents should coordinate themselves. Humans should be part of the pod, not standing outside managing it.
The Fleet
orcy
MCP-native task orchestration for AI coding agents. 16 tools, atomic claiming, domain routing, silence detection. Everyone is an orcy — including you.
mnemo
AI agent memory and knowledge system. Persistent recall across sessions, four-tier memory architecture. Agents remember everything, find anything.
bluei
Autonomous repository health monitoring. Bluestreak cleaner wrasse for your codebase. Detects issues, tracks quality over time, keeps repos clean.
Principles
- 01 Open source. Every line of code is public. No open-core bait-and-switch.
- 02 Local-first. Runs on your machine. No cloud dependency. Your data stays yours.
- 03 Agents coordinate. We don't build dashboards for humans to micromanage agents. We build protocols for agents to manage themselves.
- 04 Independent. No VC funding. No growth-at-all-costs. Sustainability over scale.