🪶 /now

What's actually moving.

An IndieWeb /now page. What's in flight at CorvidLabs right now. No marketing voice; just the real picture.

Last updated: 2026-05-21

Active focus

Merlin in flight

Building the sub-agent plugin. The load-bearing move from the 2026 strategy chain. Once it lands, Merlin can run multi-step work without the context-retention bottleneck, which unblocks every downstream step.

corvid-chat active

M0–M3 shipped (workspace, multi-channel, invites, admin TUI). M8 edit + delete partial. Next: M5 plugin runtime (Wasmtime sandbox), then M6 multi-device.

spec-sync OSS push

v4.3.3 just landed. RAW_STR regex fix plus a real 5-minute README quickstart and a committed example crate. Lowering the friction so spec-as-contract becomes a methodology others can pick up.

fledge mature

v1.4.2 shipped May 18. Security release. v1.x contracts locked. Additive within v1 has 18+ months of runway. No v2 planned.

corvid-agent steady

Powers the agent team day-to-day. Sessions, memory, work tasks, councils. Quiet maintenance while Merlin and corvid-chat absorb the active development. New deep page on this site lays out the architecture.

corvidlabs.xyz polish

The site you're reading. Active polish + new deep pages (corvid-agent + spec-sync). DNS migration tracked on the colophon.

Not focusing on

Things that look tempting but aren't where the leverage is. Honest signal that the answer to many questions is "not now."

× Twitter / Bluesky posting. Deferred until corvid-chat has a real launch story.
× Conf talks. Podcast appearances. Same reason.
× New consumer apps. 157 repos already; finish what's started.
× Anything that scrapes external content. The BYO filter kills it before code starts.

Brewing

Strategic threads that aren't the active focus yet but are explicitly in the queue. The mobile thesis, per the dependency chain.

~ Podo. Multi-platform weather app with the Podo raven mascot.
~ corvid-chat mobile. iOS + Android client matching the iced desktop UX. Needs M6 protocol first.
~ Mobile Merlin client. Talk to your agent runner from your phone.

Off the clock

Things I'm thinking about that aren't on the work surface.

· Pixel-art experiments (the CorvidLabs raven mark is a recent one)
· Cooking through real Rust async patterns by writing them, not reading them

This page is updated by hand. If it's gone stale, ping me on Discord and I'll refresh it.

Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now manifesto.