Side projects · All MIT · All on GitHub

Things I built and shipped

Three tools, one rule: every claim they make is checkable at the source. The code is open, the receipts are in the repos.

Live on the Chrome Web Store

Bangermeter

Score any tweet with X's own open-sourced ranking fundamentals.

A free Chrome extension that badges every post in your X feed with what the open-sourced ranking formula would make of it, using the last weight values X published. Every factor is cited to its source.
The formula skeleton is verified against X's 2026 open-source release. Outputs are relative scores, and the tool says so on every screen. It does not predict reach.
Zero network requests, zero data collected, no account. It all runs in your browser. 33/33 self-tests in the open repo.

Desktop app · Open source

Grades business websites for AI-readiness and builds evidence-based outreach. Local-first.

Six deterministic checks run against raw page source. No AI summaries of page content, ever: if it isn't in view-source, it isn't a finding.
Every claim in a deliverable can be reproduced by the recipient with Ctrl+U. That reproducibility is the product.
It never sends anything. There is no sender in the codebase; every outreach item leaves by your hand, one approved item at a time.

Claude Code plugin · v0.5.0 experimental

Anti-sycophancy behavioral modes for Claude Code.

Twelve skills: one shared core plus eleven work-mode personas (coding, debugging, security, architecture, writing, data, and more) that cut reflexive agreement and hollow praise without cutting helpfulness.
Prompt-level instructions only, Markdown and JSON. No code execution; the whole plugin is text you can read.
The repo's own blind A/B benchmark has Candor responses preferred about 3 to 1 overall, with 39/39 trigger-routing accuracy. Its numbers, published to be re-run.
The oldest tool on this page, and in my opinion, the most important one: Candor's agents and skills ran the early sessions that put Krafty Bandit, my mom's shop, on track, and several of the skills in daily use here today are descendants of candor-core.

All three are independent open-source projects by Ryan Lenk. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by X Corp, xAI, Anthropic, or Google.