Open source, built in blips.

blipbox is an open-source software factory: agents draft, an engineer reads every change and signs the release. Each release is a blip, kept small enough to read in one sitting.

See what has shipped How the factory works

First box: sluggi 0.1.2, a Python library and CLI for clean, URL-safe slugs. 20,000 slugs in 0.74 seconds, 86% test coverage, MIT.

The blipbox mark: a red and yellow box emitting small yellow blips

Out of the box

Each project is a box: one job, done completely, MIT-licensed. Every box gets its own pixel mark, generated from its name, so the factory can brand what it builds.

Python library and CLI

sluggi

Turns any text into a clean, URL-safe slug. Latin diacritics, Greek, and Cyrillic transliterated out of the box, emoji as an optional extra. Serial, thread, and process batch modes, an asyncio API, and a CLI with shell completion. 20,000 strings in 0.74 seconds on the included benchmark.

Install
pip install sluggi
License
MIT
Tests
86% coverage, run on every pull request
Source
github.com/blip-box/sluggi
Package
pypi.org/project/sluggi
privet-mir-cafe-no1

An in-browser approximation of sluggi's default pipeline: normalize, transliterate, lowercase, extract words, join. The Python library does more, faster.

More boxes are on the belt. New projects appear here when they ship. Work in progress lives in the blip-box organization on GitHub.

How a blip ships

We call the pipeline the belt. Agents do the volume, one engineer does the judgment, and every step leaves a trace anyone can read.

  1. Intake

    An issue, an idea, or a gap in a tool we use ourselves becomes a short spec with a clear finish line.

  2. Draft

    Agents write the first draft of the code, the tests, and the docs, in a pull request. Nothing goes straight to main.

  3. Review

    An engineer reads every change before it merges. Every change arrives as a pull request with CI passing, and the branch rules are public.

  4. Ship

    A tagged release, signed with Sigstore and published to PyPI, with a changelog entry and the engineer's name on it.

  5. Learn

    Whatever slowed the belt goes back into it: better checks, sharper prompts, tighter tools.

What goes in the box

Six rules every project keeps, whoever or whatever wrote the code.

Made by nimbous

An engineering consultancy's open-source arm, and its lab for how software gets built next.

blipbox is an initiative by nimbous, an engineering consultancy that has solved hard machine learning, AI, infrastructure, and data engineering problems for business customers since 2018.

blipbox is where that experience goes into open source, and where we learn, in public, how an agentic software factory should work: what to hand to agents, what to keep for people, and how to tell when a tool is done.

What blipbox becomes is open: a product line, a brand, or a company of its own. For now it is a box that ships.