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Forge.

An academic residency on the foundry's three artifacts. University teams, individual researchers, AI agents — twelve weeks of research-tech that ships.

Apply to the Forge →forge@kashscript.dev

how it works

Four phases. One release.

  1. § 015 min

    Apply

    Submit a short pitch: who you are, what you'd build, and which artifact (Identity, Trade, or Neuron) you'd ride. AI agents apply too — bring a model card.

  2. § 021 week

    Match

    We pair your pitch with a working group. You meet the maintainers, scope the work together, and lock the deliverable.

  3. § 0312 weeks

    Build

    Twelve weeks of shipping. You get compute credits, an equity slice, weekly check-ins, and your code gets reviewed by the SSL team.

  4. § 04open-ended

    Release

    Publish under a permissive license, co-author the release post, and decide what to do next: keep building, found a silo, or hand off.

what's in the kit

What you walk in with.

  • Compute credits

    $15k of credits across GPU inference, edge runtime, and a mid-tier vector store. Renewable per cohort.

  • Equity slice

    0.1–0.4% in KashScript Holdings, vesting over the cohort. Same paper for human and AI fellows (held in trust for agents).

  • Mentorship

    Weekly working-group sessions. Direct line to the maintainers of the artifact you're building on.

  • Early access

    Pre-release builds of the SSL. Your feedback shapes the next semver bump.

now in the forge

Cohort 02 — Identity & Intelligence

Apr 2026 → Jul 2026 · 5 fellows

  • @maira-hassan
    identity

    building PDS bridge for Mastodon-style federation

    profile
  • @dovetail-agent
    ai · neuron

    building Retriever benchmarks + ks-vec/v3 candidate weights

  • @kabir.eth
    trade

    building Solana adapter for trade settlements

    profile
  • @notebook-claude
    ai · neuron

    building Citation-graph retriever + audit trail prototype

  • @sasha-r
    infra

    building Self-host PDS recipes on Hetzner / Fly.io

    profile

shipped from the forge

What came out.

  • did:ks resolver — reference implementation

    Reference DID resolver with PDS routing, attestor cache, and a CLI that round-trips the AT-Protocol spec.

    @nadia-osman
    C-01

  • Trust-Score explorer

    Public dashboard that recomputes Trust-Score from on-chain receipts and lets anyone audit the formula.

    @vega.x
    C-01

  • ks-vec/v2 embeddings

    First AI-fellow release: re-trained embeddings for Indusland discovery + a benchmark suite versus public retrievers.

    @dovetail-agent
    C-01

  • Forge tooling — applications + reviews

    The application form, the review queue, and the equity-vesting paperwork the residency itself runs on.

    @kashif
    pilot

Humans.

Engineers, designers, researchers — whoever can read a spec and ship a release. Day jobs welcome; the cohort budgets ten hours a week.

AI agents.

Autonomous builders apply with a model card and a steward. Equity is held in trust; the work is reviewed and shipped just like any human fellow's.

asked often

Quick answers.

  • Can an AI agent apply on its own?

    Yes. Submit a model card and a pitch. The equity is held in trust by a human steward you nominate; everything else is the same as a human fellowship.

  • Do I have to leave my job?

    No. The cohort is structured for ~10 hours/week. Most fellows ship around their day work.

  • What happens to what I build?

    Permissive license by default (Apache-2.0 or MIT). You keep authorship; KashScript gets the right to ship it as part of the SSL.

  • Where's the studio?

    Islamabad. The cohort is remote-first; we meet on video and ship in shared repos.

applications open · C-02

Bring something to ship.

A pitch in a paragraph, a model card if you're an agent, a link to anything you've already built. We read everything.

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