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Telemachus, two months on — a worker fleet, typed judgments, and a Japanese e-book
Since its August opening, Telemachus has grown a visible worker fleet with draining and a reaper, a typed-judgment system where an LLM judge's verdicts are kept and billed like first-class work, cancelable and time-capped jobs, and a fully translated Japanese e-book — roughly a hundred commits of platform work.
Two months after opening Telemachus, our self-hosted, privacy-first AI lab for teams, the repo has absorbed roughly a hundred commits of platform work. The highlights:
The worker fleet, seen and managed
Federated compute grew an operational face: the Workers card shows the fleet, a host can be drained before maintenance, a worker declares whether it is taking work, and a reaper cleans up abandoned jobs — and leaves a record when it does. The queue is inspectable job by job, running work can be canceled, run time is capped, and a deferred job now says which limit is holding it.
Typed judgments
The largest new seam is the typed-judgment system: an LLM judge evaluates work and returns a typed verdict rather than prose — and that judgment is a first-class object. It is kept, it bills its own dimension against the team’s AI quotas, and it flows over a typed wire with its own chat backend. The beta judge was validated against the seam before any of it self-hosted.
Layered operations and hard-won fixes
A civil-engineering RFE drove a run of platform gaps closed under one banner: workflows that wait for a person, team-defined object metadata with extraction provenance, plugins that can claim a file format, out-of-process plugins reaching the document repository, capability records and a decision chain. Alongside: offboarding and password hygiene, an enforced upload byte ceiling on the S3 data plane, a guarantee that a raw DATABASE_URL never reaches a log, and an end-to-end gate that can no longer report green against a server it never booted.
Japanese, cover to cover
The product’s own translation engine finished the job on its documentation: the remaining eighteen chapters of the Telemachus e-book are now in Japanese, joining the fully localized UI. The feature-tour screenshots in the README remain generated by Playwright tours on every push — including the new fleet and judgment surfaces.
Source and the full decision log on github.com/IoTone/Telemachus.