Forged in Silence: Building Sigil Without an Audience
Since mid-March, I’ve been building something called Sigil . It’s not just a framework or another AI wrapper—it’s an attempt to give structure to trust, to let code make decisions and be held accountable for them. Not in a buzzwordy “ethical AI” kind of way. I mean literal, cryptographically enforced accountability. Verifiable memory. Mutations that leave a trace. Systems that can explain why they did what they did—because that’s the whole point. And I’ve been doing it solo. Most days, I’m on it constantly. Reading. Writing. Designing. Debugging. Thinking five moves ahead and five years back. But as of May 19th, I haven’t touched a single line of new code. Not because I ran out of steam, but because after weeks of pushing this out into the world—blog posts, GitHub, Reddit, YouTube—there’s nothing coming back. No stars. No forks. No replies. Comments get quietly deleted. And I’m sitting here thinking: I’m building something real, something that could matter, and it feels like I’m ...