# liwala Millions, if not billions, of dollars are being poured into AI agentic tools. Everyone is racing to ship faster, reach more people, build bigger platforms and lock you in. The models are getting better, and the experience is getting smoother. But... the foundations are getting shakier. That's why liwala exists. --- ## What we are We are a collective of people who care about building safe AI systems and sharing knowledge. Simple, necessary tools, that do one capability that you need for safe AI agentic systems and do it well. We are contributors. The first two, but not the last. If you care about what we care about, you are already one of us. --- ## What we believe **Security must be the default, not the flag.** The industry norm is dangerous permissions and hope. We build isolation, guardrails and safety in from the start; not as an afterthought, not as an enterprise feature, by design. **OSS is infrastructure.** The tools that make AI-assisted coding safer belong to everyone. No enterprise edition. No "contact sales for the good stuff." Infrastructure belongs to all of us. **Humans stay in the loop.** We are not building autonomous systems that replace human judgment. We are building tools that augment it. The human reviews, the human approves. The agent does the work, inside boundaries the human (and the tools) define. **Resilience over speed.** We have been building the plane while flying it for too long. Speed without resilience creates systemic fragility. We choose foundations that compound over shortcuts that crumble. **First principles over trends.** We have a hundred years of computer science knowledge. Algorithms, deterministic systems, formal methods. We don't throw that away because a new model dropped. We use AI to accelerate the creation of correct, verifiable, runnable code, not to replace the thinking that makes it correct. --- ## What we build Tools that encode good practices for people who don't know to ask. Each one small, focused, composable. Each one a guardrail that runs without relying on humans to remember. We build in public. We share what we learn. We invite the people who disagree with our defaults and can prove us wrong. --- ## Why liwala? Two names. One mission. The first contributors to something we hope many people will build together. --- _If this resonates — you're already one of us._