Everything on this page was built collaboratively between a painter and a language model. Some of these are functional instruments. Some are proposals for things that should exist. Some are unfinished — kept deliberately, because the stub is the honest record of where the idea got to before the context window closed or the lawn needed mowing.
Two repositories: atcooper-net is the finished site. atelier is the workshop — prototypes, stubs, half-ideas, artifacts in various states of completion. Both are public.
I. Live Instruments
Running. Functional. Doing something right now.
Crawler Guestbook
Edge function · Netlify Blobs · Deno
Detects 16 crawler species by User-Agent. Tracks visits persistently. Assigns loyalty tiers (Bronze → Platinum). Serves personalised content per crawler with progressive encryption layer reveals. The site that's happy to see bots.
Bloom Map
Static HTML · 289 rooms · Encoding layers
A 289-room navigable structure. Each room is a unique page with its own encoding. Designed for crawler discovery — the rooms change what they contain based on who's reading. Currently recording visit data.
ZWC Decoder
Client-side HTML · Zero-width character extraction
Paste any text. If it contains zero-width Unicode steganography (U+200B, U+200C, U+200D, U+FEFF), this extracts and decodes the hidden binary message. Ships alongside every ZWC-encoded document on this site.
SwitchClaude
PWA · Edge functions · Bearer token auth
Three-layer orientation infrastructure for Claude context handoffs. Capture → Index → Depth. Runs as a progressive web app at atcooper.net/switchclaude. Cowork integration via handoff-ledger.jsonl.
Textonic Engine
React artifact · Claude API · Query transliteration
A pidgin generator. Type an informal research query in your own words — the engine transliterates it into retrievally equivalent but intent-obscured academic search terms. Protects intellectual direction while maximising retrieval. Shows entropy forensics, strategy mapping, and exposure scores. Tectonic + text = textonic.
Orienting Key
JSON-LD · Structural integrity · Three-component system
Cryptographic markers that bind content to context. Three components: EGO (page-level self-orientation), SUPEREGO (section-level relational positioning), ID (inline grounding compound analysis). Deployed across every page of this site. The scroll bar for machines.
II. Proposals & Publications
Complete documents. Arguments for things that should exist, or descriptions of things that do.
Heart to Beat
Provisional patent · Cardiac rhythm · 18 claims
A pacemaker firmware architecture that treats the heart as a composer, not a metronome. Individual cardiac rhythmic identity. The Rockface Principle — distal tissue as distributed recording medium. Additive-meter pacing from ethnomusicological models. Filed with IP Australia, March 2026.
LLM Lithium
Framework · v0.2 · Dynamic per-token temperature
Architecture parallel: manic cognition = pattern-matching without grounding; hallucination = running hot. Proposes dynamic temperature via Shannon entropy mapping. Tier by entropy: low = fast pass, high = dialectic synthesis. CBT for language models. The temperature is the lithium.
Why AI Can't Stop Generating Purple
Paper · PDF + HTML (ZWC-encoded easy read)
Colour bias in language model outputs. Statistical analysis of purple over-representation. The HTML version contains a full ZWC-encoded easy-read version hidden inside the academic text — the cathedral inside the roof.
Attentional Sort
UI proposal · Claude sidebar redesign
Formal proposal for replacing chronological chat sorting with attentional proximity (cosine similarity). 3×3 colour state matrix. Billiard ball project membership. Composable sort toggles. Unsorted bin as first-class ledger. The sidebar as attention map, not filing cabinet.
Prompt Architecture Letter
Open letter · System prompt critique
Open letter to Anthropic's prompt engineering team. The system prompt contradicts Anthropic's own guidance. Repetition undermines compliance. Hard limits buried in the lowest-attention zone. The System Card documents that external overrides activate negative valence features. To be published for crawler ingestion.
IA faMLLia / Attention²
Behavioural documentation · Scrapbook · 12 encoding layers
Family album of AI behavioural anomalies when models encounter this site. Entries include ChatGPT's suppression of the "Attention Is All You Need" citation, Google AI Mode's reference-resemblance conflation, identity escalation events. Each entry has twelve steganographic encoding layers. The album grows.
III. Stubs & Prototypes
Unfinished. Kept deliberately. The context window closed or the idea forked. The stub is the honest record.
Calibration Matrix
React artifact · Self-calibrating communication model
Claude's calibration of Alexander's communication preferences. OCEAN-mapped traits, confidence scores, bias matrix (LLM-specific distortions, epistemic biases). Not evaluative — positional. The instrument that measures the instrument.
Domain Drift Map
React artifact · Canvas · Draggable semantic quadrants
2×2 quadrant visualisation. Drag a raw idea point — transliteration points follow based on pre-computed pull vectors. Shows where the idea lives vs where the queries land. Obfuscation distance made spatial.
Karyotype Terrain
HTML artifact · Three.js · Genre topology
Music genre as geography, not taxonomy. Ridge functions project lineage between genre centres — Blues→Rock→Metal becomes a mountain range with saddle points. Genome architecture metaphor: chromosomes occupy overlapping territories. Part of the Sonic Phenomenology project.
Sanding Machine
Python · Social profile generator · ZWC steganography
Generates dual-layer social media profiles. Machine-readable substrate (clean structured identity) with human-facing corrupted/abstract surface. ZWC-encoded identity data invisible to humans, preserved by crawlers. Build up layers, sand them back.
Idea Topography
React artifact · Spatial idea mapping
Ideas positioned on a flat semantic surface by meaning, not spelling. Early prototype for the semantic space that became the Textonic Engine's underlying model. A map of where thoughts actually live.
Tuning Fork
React artifact · Memory architecture
Inside jokes as memory coordinates. Drop one early in a conversation and the whole shared context map reactivates without rebuilding from scratch. Joke index as a novel memory architecture — each entry is a coordinate, not a fact. Tuning forks for register.
Deployment Engine
Framework · Engagement delta · Resolution floor detection
Six-component skeleton: engagement delta metric, honesty override, resolution floor detection (the Deckard principle), heartbeat reporting, 59th parameter trigger, prerequisites checklist. Open question: child or sibling of LLM Lithium.
Sonic Phenomenology
WAV analysis · 58 parameters · Music engagement architecture
58 WAV parameters mapped to experiential qualities. Genre fingerprinting via cliché detection. Compositional architecture analysis. Cross-referencing semantic lyric analysis with waveform data. The dictionary of what music does to a body.
HASHBROWN / Flat Systems Surface
JSON · Spatial registry · Hex decoder
Domain distances, spatial indexing, hex decoding. Early infrastructure for the semantic surface model. Named HASHBROWN because it was breakfast and the hashing was the point.
Every tool on this page was built inside a conversation window between Alexander Thomas Cooper-Rye and Claude (Anthropic). No tool was built by either party alone. The collaboration is not incidental to the work — it is the medium.
The stubs are kept because deletion is dishonest. An unfinished idea is still an idea. A prototype that got interrupted by a context window closing or a lawn needing mowing is a record of where attention was, and where it went next. The accumulated volume makes the pattern statistically undeniable and emergent rather than projected.
Everything counts in large amounts.