Projects

What I’m Building

Research code, tooling, and applied experiments. All open source.

Reinforcement learning

pokemon-red-ai ACTIVE
PythonRLGymnasium

Reinforcement learning research on observation representations in Pokémon Red. Pixel, symbolic, and hybrid conditions under capacity-matched encoders. RecurrentPPO via SB3-Contrib.

github

Agentic systems

ea-agent ACTIVE
PythonAIObsidian

AI personal executive assistant built around Obsidian.

github

Research tooling

overleaf-mcp ACTIVE
PythonMCPLaTeX

MCP server for editing Overleaf LaTeX projects from Claude. Published to PyPI. Single-user by design, auditable, built for academic researchers.

github

Applied experiments

Identity and tooling

alanchester-brand ACTIVE
DesignCSSTokens

Personal brand system, expressed as code. Tokens, components, the equation as identity.

github
engineering-handbook ACTIVE
MarkdownDocs

Personal engineering handbook. Philosophies, workflows, and tooling for how I build software. Versioned with semver.

github