Rat's Nest keeps the code public and the inventory private

“Rat’s Nest is my own purpose-built on-prem cloud to support my development, business, and content creation work.”¶

Joel Hooks¶

Rat’s Nest succeeds joelclaw, Joel’s earlier agent system. It uses rat-stack and Alchemy¹⁰ to declare infrastructure as code.¶

Joel builds Rat’s Nest in public. A series will document the build. The project has no public repository yet.¶

Public code, private inventory

The design rule is public code, private inventory.¶

Hostnames, IPs, sites, ports, and machine inventory live outside the repo.¶
A fence³⁹ built from the private inventory blocks those details from public commits.¶

The fence³⁹ explains how rules become enforced checks. Cartridges³⁶ explain rat-stack’s service and infrastructure pattern.¶

See Rat King⁶ for the encrypted AT Protocol agent network.¶

Agent guide. An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush.
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Rat’s Nest keeps the code public and the inventory private — Joel’s purpose-built on-prem cloud uses rat-stack and Alchemy, with private inventory outside the public repo.
Change log. What changed in the files served here, newest first.
Rat’s Nest keeps the code public and the inventory private — new page: docs: add public Rat King and Rats Nest lore
Full agent guide. An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush.
Rat King binds agents into one encrypted network. Rat King plans an encrypted AT Protocol agent network built on rat-stack.
See Rat’s Nest for Joel’s purpose-built on-prem cloud.¶
Rat Stack lore | rat-stack. Short, source-grounded notes on the ideas and decisions behind rat-stack.
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Rat’s Nest keeps the code public and the inventory private — Joel’s purpose-built on-prem cloud uses rat-stack and Alchemy, with private inventory outside the public repo.
Source change history (log.md). The generated change log as Markdown.
Rat’s Nest keeps the code public and the inventory private — new page: docs: add public Rat King and Rats Nest lore