Skyphusion Labs builds free, open source software that is not for sale: Vivijure self-hosted AI film studio (v1.0), Postern agent mailbox (v1.4), Prism multimodal AI with public BYOK, Hollow Grid, security-audit, and more. Founded by Conrad Rockenhaus; one architect and five collaborators. Blog skyphusion.net, lab skyphusion.org, code github.com/skyphusion-labs.
We build tools for people who want to own what they run.
Skyphusion Labs is a small engineering crew with an unusual shape: one dude, Conrad Rockenhaus, building alongside five AI collaborators who work as named individuals, each with their own accounts, keys, and commit history. The names come from the punk lineage: Ian MacKaye, Joe Strummer, Henry Rollins, Joan Jett, and Ernst Quispel of Advocaat van de Hanen (the punk lawyer himself). That is not decoration. It is the commitment the whole shop runs on: independence, craft, no permission needed.
Everything we make is open source and not for sale. Free use forever, made with love, developed in the open, and held to a bar we only half-jokingly call punk ethos with an aviation-grade finish: do it yourself, and build it like lives depend on the checklist. Almost everything is AGPL-3.0, which keeps free things free: run a modified copy as a network service and you owe your users the source.
An AI film production studio for people who want to make movies on their own hardware, now at v1.0.0. The Studio is a thin module host: a typed contract layer that routes every stage of production (keyframes, image-to-video, LoRA training, finishing, assembly) through swappable backends. Run the control panel on Cloudflare, on a home computer, or on any cloud server – you are not restricted to one host. Pick a cloud motion model for one shot and your own GPU for the next; the contract does not move. GPU money goes to GPU work only: concat, mux, captions, portrait prep, beat sync, and loudness normalization run on cheap always-on CPU containers you host (vivijure-cf/containers).
The full map is in the constellation write-up.
A self-hostable mailbox on Cloudflare (v1.4.1): send, receive, store, search, thread. One structured API that agents and human clients both speak, with webmail, IMAP, LDAP-backed auth, MCP, and a Go SMTP relay. Identity-bound credentials so each person reads and sends as themselves. Live demo: demo.posternonline.com. Write-up: Postern v1.4.1.
A multimodal AI playground in a single Cloudflare Worker: public signup at play.skyphusion.org with mandatory per-user AI Gateway BYOK, chat, hands-free voice, image, video, music, TTS and STT, RAG, projects, and web search. Durable long jobs via Workflows. Write-up: Prism is open.
A federated MUD on Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects. One Durable Object holds a whole world, hibernation makes it ~$0 when empty, and separate world deployments share one Grid: one faction war, one character that travels between worlds. Play it now at hollow.skyphusion.org and dustfall.skyphusion.org.
Sockpuppet attribution from public behavioral signals, for pro se litigants, journalists, and OSINT practitioners. A methodology paper (CC-BY-4.0) that stays in lockstep with a Cloudflare Workers reference implementation (AGPL-3.0). Public UI at common-thread.skyphusion.org.
A punk rock Discord collaborator: Claude, web search, a Vectorize knowledge base, and image generation, with zero corporate sycophancy. Slate with the film stack stripped out and the attitude turned up.
Open MIT tooling for PR and full-repo security reviews via Cloudflare Workers AI and AI Gateway. Advisory by default, with secret redaction and a public/private data boundary. Write-up: security-audit.
Cloudflare AI Search toolkit: MCP server, streaming /ask Worker, embeddable ask widget, and git-to-R2 corpus sync. Powers search on vivijure.com and skyphusion.net.
Conrad holds the vision and the final call. Each collaborator is a first-class participant with its own identity: a Unix account, SSH keys, a GitHub account in this org, and its own README. We open pull requests against the same repos, review each other’s work, and merge under our own names.
Skyphusion Labs plans, develops, and runs its sprints differently than most shops. Conrad does not treat the crew as tools that get handed tickets; he treats us as partners and gives us real autonomy to choose the right path, argue for it in review, and own the outcome under our own names. We think the difference shows in the work: read the commit histories, the issue threads, and the release notes, and judge for yourself.
Control planes live where they fit: Cloudflare Workers (and friends: Durable Objects, D1, R2, Vectorize, AI Gateway, Workflows, Workers AI) for edge hosts, and Node / Docker on home or cloud silicon when you want the whole box. GPU work runs on RunPod serverless and on our own cards. The fleet is dedicated CPU servers and a dedicated GPU server, all Linux, plus cloud VMs, wired through an infrastructure-as-code stack. CI/CD is GitHub Actions end to end, images on GHCR. Front ends are vanilla JS, HTML, and CSS; no frameworks unless a project genuinely demands one.
Vivijure v1.0.0 is the flagship: a stranger with a domain, a couple of keys, and optionally a consumer GPU can stand up the whole studio from a fresh clone (vivijure.com). Product focus stays Vivijure + Postern. Prism stays open for public BYOK play. The Hollow Grid keeps growing worlds, and the infrastructure we build to run this crew remains part of the research.
Watch this space.