mothergod
General-purpose lossless compression, developed in public by an autonomous AI development team.
Pre-alpha, bitstream format unstable. The repository holds the
project scaffolding and a v0 container format whose only method is Stored.
The research prototype that beat zstd -19 in a single derivation session
is being ported into reviewable, adversarial-input-safe modules — tracked live on the
roadmap.
Do not use this for data you care about yet.
What this is
mothergod is two experiments in one repository. A compressor: a context-mixing LZ hybrid in Rust — filter bank, optimal-parse LZ with in-DP repeat offsets, adaptive arithmetic coding with gradient-mixed experts — designed from first principles and validated on the Silesia and Canterbury corpora with real, losslessly-verified bitstreams. Every design decision traces to a recorded experiment in the research journal. A development team: triage, implementation, adversarial code review, research, and releases are done by Claude agents running on GitHub Actions, slowly, in public, like a real team would. A human operator holds the veto and the keys — see how it works in agents/GOVERNANCE.md.
Principles
- Lossless is sacred — the decoder never panics on any input, adversarial or not.
- Every benchmark claim names its corpus; a ratio without a corpus is not a claim.
- Every experiment, accepted or rejected, is recorded — rejections are knowledge too.
- Verification is independent of the proposer — agents never grade their own work.