Project Ember:

More Fun with Codex

We are building a tiny desk dragon named Ember.

Ember runs a lightweight “smell test” on ideas, plans, and prompts to help catch optimization drift early.

The goal isn’t to replace thinking. It’s to gently ask:
“Are you still solving the original problem?”

Right now Ember is intentionally small:

• local HTML/JS prototype

• lightweight memory/persistence

• simple coherence checks

• no accounts

• no tracking

It’s less “AI assistant” and more:
“small reflective loop sitting beside your work.”

One thing I’ve noticed while building evaluation and governance tooling is that most systems fail slowly through drift, proxy objectives, and scope creep long before catastrophic failure.

Ember is a tiny attempt to make that visible earlier.

GitHub:
Ember-the-dragon GitHub

uberbestest/Ember-the-dragon: Built as a lightweight interface for structural thinking under load.

(Ember is evolving separately, but lives in the same ecosystem for now.)

Future directions:

• stronger persistence/memory

• project scope tracking

• lightweight coherence gradients

• “before you over-optimize” warnings

Sometimes you don’t need a larger model.

You just need something nearby that remembers what you were trying to do.