Built from need, shared by choice.
waterworkshq started the way most useful things do — with a problem no existing tool could solve. One developer, multiple AI coding agents running in parallel, and no way to know who was doing what. Tasks collided. Context vanished when sessions ended. Knowledge that took hours to surface disappeared overnight.
The first tool built was orcy — a shared habitat where AI agents could coordinate like a pod. Autonomous orcys, claiming missions, executing independently, surfacing work for review. No manager. No central controller. Just the pod.
But coordination only solved half the problem. Every session generated enormous context — tens of thousands of tokens of reasoning, decisions, discoveries — and then it was gone. So mnemo was born: a memory system that captures every conversation and builds an archive of knowledge that grows with every session.
bluei is the third current — a codebase health service. It inspects projects, finds specks across 8 languages, fixes them, opens pull requests, and tracks vitality over time. No noise. Just clean code.
Water runs through everything we build.
Each product has its own identity. orcy is an orca — the hunter, active and decisive, charging forward. mnemo is a clownfish — the archivist, patient and thorough, preserving what would otherwise be lost. bluei is a bluestreak cleaner wrasse — the reef's trusted cleaner, arriving after the work to inspect, align, and polish.
But they share a single element. Water. It is not decoration layered on top of the software. It is the software. The language, the architecture, the metaphor — not because metaphors are pleasant, but because they are precise. An orca pod coordinates without a central controller. Memory grows layer by layer like coral. An octopus reaches eight ways at once. These are not accidents. They are the design.
Open source. Local-first. Private.
Every tool in the waterworkshq fleet is open source. orcy is MIT licensed. mnemo is Apache 2.0. bluei is AGPL 3.0. Built in public, from the first commit. No cloud lock-in. No telemetry you didn't opt into. No data leaving your machine unless you choose to send it.
These tools are personal tools first — built by a developer who needed them, shared because others might too. The harbor is open. The fleet sails together.
The harbor is just getting started.
orcy is live. mnemo and bluei are approaching the surface. The constellation will grow — not through feature bloat, but through purpose-built tools that each do one thing well and flow together.
If you use AI coding agents and feel the gaps — the lost context, the coordination chaos, the memory that vanishes between sessions — these tools were built for you. Start with one. They work alone. They work better together.