Org focus (2026-05). This organization is the home of the EU-sovereign LLM serving stack (ailiance), the autonomous coding agent (agent-kiki), the EDA pipeline engine (euclideda), and the hardware co-design framework (hardware-coagent), plus the MLX fine-tuning toolchain.

The FineFab manufacturing platform (life-*, makelife-*, finefab-*, Factory 4 Life monorepo) was moved on 2026-04-22 to the personal user account github.com/electron-rare for simpler ownership during the pre-launch phase of the L'Electron Rare business entity. GitHub keeps 301 redirects for 90 days; after ~2026-07-22, update remaining clones with git remote set-url origin git@github.com:electron-rare/<repo>.git.

The active stack — EU-sovereign LLM serving, autonomous coding agent, EDA pipeline engine, hardware co-design, and the MLX fine-tuning toolchain:

"The boundary between physical and non-physical is very imprecise for us." — Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

Bridging embedded hardware and AI — local-first, multi-machine, no cloud lock-in.

Training pipeline (KIKI-Mac_tunner) and its output model (micro-kiki-v3) are both open-source. Benchmarks, forks, and negative findings welcome on the discussion thread.

We build monstrous systems — in Haraway's sense. Hybrid organisms where ESP32 firmware and language models share the same nervous system, where a PCB design agent and a fine-tuned LLM are parts of one body.

AI should run where the work happens: on the edge, across heterogeneous machines, orchestrated as a single organism. L'Electron Rare builds the stack that connects embedded firmware to LLM inference to real-time cockpits — without sending a single byte to someone else's cloud.

Every layer is designed to be owned, modified, and deployed by the people who use it.

The system is now organised around three live layers — EU-sovereign LLM serving, the FineFab manufacturing platform, and the autonomous coding agent — all wired to the same fleet of edge nodes:

flowchart TB
    subgraph serving["EU-sovereign LLM serving"]
        AIL["<b>ailiance</b><br/>Gateway :9300<br/>Apertus 70B · Devstral 24B<br/>EuroLLM 22B · Qwen3-Next 80B<br/>Granite 4.1 · Ministral"]
        DEMO["<b>ailiance-demo</b><br/>Cockpit · FastAPI + React 19"]
        AK["<b>agent-kiki</b><br/>VS Code ext + aki CLI<br/>EU AI Act JSONL trace"]
    end

    subgraph finefab["FineFab Platform · github.com/electron-rare"]
        direction LR
        subgraph platform["Platform"]
            LC["life-core<br/>AI backend"]
            LW["life-web<br/>Cockpit UI"]
            LR2["life-reborn<br/>API gateway"]
            LS["life-spec<br/>Spec pipeline"]
        end
        subgraph hardware["Hardware"]
            MH["makelife-hard<br/>KiCad · PCB"]
            MF["makelife-firmware<br/>ESP32 · STM32"]
            MC["makelife-cad<br/>CAD/EDA"]
        end
        subgraph eda["EDA orchestration"]
            EU["<b>euclideda</b><br/>Pipeline engine<br/>5 crates · Runner trait"]
            HCA["<b>hardware-coagent</b><br/>Mecha+PCB+FW+cost"]
        end
        subgraph ml["ML & Infra"]
            KK["KIKI-models-tuning"]
            KM["KIKI-Mac_tunner"]
            KF["kiki-forge"]
            MLX["mlx (fork)"]
            FS["finefab-shared"]
            FL["finefab-life"]
        end
    end

    AK -- "routes prompts" --> AIL
    AIL -- "inference" --> LC
    DEMO -. "observes" .-> AIL
    EU -. "calls fab/sim tools" .-> MC
    HCA -. "constraints" .-> MH
    HCA -. "constraints" .-> MF
    KM -. "MLX checkpoints" .-> KK
    KK -. "GGUF / LoRA" .-> AIL
    MLX -. "patched kernel" .-> KM

The previous Agentic Core (mascarade / Kill_LIFE / crazy_life) is now archived and has been superseded by the FineFab monorepo and the ailiance + agent-kiki + euclideda stack — see project_mascarade_deprecated for the migration notes.

Open frontier work on cognition, self-organization, and fine-tuning lives in the sister org hypneum-lab (since 2026-04-20 brand pivot — "GENIAL" stays as the framework acronym used in papers, but the lab is now Hypneum Lab):

The FineFab platform now lives entirely under github.com/electron-rare. The naming reflects the project's evolution:

• life-* — core platform services (the "Life" in Factory 4 Life)
• makelife-* — hardware, firmware, and CAD layers (the "Make" in MakeLife)
• finefab-* — shared infrastructure and integration (the unified FineFab identity)
• KIKI-* — ML / fine-tuning pipeline (kept in this org)

All FineFab subprojects above are assembled inside a single monorepo, factory-4-life, with 21 git submodules pinned to known-good SHAs. One clone, one docker compose, one CI-green check across the stack:

Phase 7 in progress — Industrialisation et Intégration Complète: hardened Traefik + Keycloak OIDC across every service, shared forward-auth cookie on .saillant.cc, nightly RAG indexer, Grafana + Jaeger + Langfuse dashboards wired end-to-end. See the monorepo CLAUDE.md for the full map of 24 nested CLAUDE.md files and per-domain runbooks.

Factory 4 Life monorepo | 21 submodules | Keycloak SSO | Traefik + Cloudflare | MLX + CUDA fine-tuning | EU-sovereign LLM serving | Local-first, no cloud lock-in

"Monsters have always defined the limits of community in Western imaginations." — Donna Haraway

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