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mertkayacs/README.md

Mert Kaya

Local, Sovereign, Open Source AI must win.

Senior AI Engineer at Enocta.
Founder of Eschatia Labs, an independent, non-profit open-source AI research lab.

Paper in IEEE Xplore: UBMK 2026 MSc thesis at TED University, on Zenodo ORCID 0009-0006-7018-3027 npm packages by mkcsai GitHub stars across all repositories

Website Eschatia Labs Hugging Face LinkedIn X Kaggle

Projects

ReevesAgents

Runs Claude Code, Codex and 20+ other coding assistants side by side in one terminal, with one of them coordinating the rest.

ReevesAgents GitHub stars 8,790 npm downloads
JevAlt

The three 4B decision models for English, Turkish and German behind Emberwick, a medieval village you play in the browser.

JevAlt GitHub stars 4,747 Hugging Face model downloads
xdfdet

Explainable deepfake detection: eight EfficientNet-B4 models with Grad-CAM evidence, the code behind the MSc thesis and the IEEE UBMK 2026 paper.

xdfdet GitHub stars 1,882 Hugging Face downloads
Tholos

Small local assistants that share tables, notes and a task board, every action behind a rule.

Tholos GitHub stars Tholos-2B: 2,650 Hugging Face downloads
Ultra Mod

The all-in-one mod pack for Claude Code, with ten mods in one plugin.

Ultra Mod GitHub stars 2,340 npm downloads
JevOss

Measures how often a decision model is right, whether its probabilities match that accuracy and which inputs change its answers.

JevOss GitHub stars

Download counts from 7 November 2026: 12,997 on Hugging Face (9,279 for models, 3,718 for datasets) and 11,130 on npm.

About

Career
  • Senior AI Engineer, Enocta, since 2025. Assistants that answer from company documents (RAG), an agentic customer-success workflow, role-play training simulations.
  • Full-stack and Mobile Engineer, Credit Bureau of Turkey (KKB), 2023-2024. Financial software used across the Turkish banking sector: backend, mobile and system design.
  • AI and Full-stack Engineer, AgriDL5.0, 2022-2023 (contract). Models that predict growing conditions in vertical farms, plus the Flutter app on top.
  • Backend and Data Engineer, Alictus, 2021-2022. Moved internal tools to the cloud with Go and Azure.
  • Internships at SimBT, BiSoft and Roar Games Studio, 2019-2021. Defence technology software, an NLTK and Neo4j chatbot before LLMs, Unity and C# games.
Education and research
Stack

Languages

Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Go, C++, C#, Dart, PHP, Bash

AI and data

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Hugging Face, scikit-learn, OpenCV, Jupyter, Kaggle, Ollama, Gradio, Streamlit

Web, apps and games

React, Next.js, Astro, Vue.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Flutter, Firebase, Unity, htmx

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Neo4j, Supabase

Infrastructure and tools

Docker, Linux, Ubuntu, Arch, Git, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, Azure, Nginx, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, Arduino, npm, pnpm, LaTeX

Also: SQL, NLTK, Weaviate.

Open source Contributions of mine

Used by millions
  • rea · Credited · Bug fixes · rea gives AI agents tools for reverse engineering software, downloaded 1.66M times a month from npm. (d54f5b07b)
  • Hermes Agent · Merged · Official plugin and bug fixes · Nous Research's open agent that learns from experience and remembers across sessions, with 261K GitHub stars. (Hermes Marketplace, #145738, #138650 credit)
  • Hermes Official Plugins · Merged · Bug fix and tests · The official plugin collection for Hermes Agent, starred 607 times on GitHub. (#7)
  • Claude-Mem · Merged · Bug fix · Claude-Mem gives Claude Code a memory that carries across sessions, with 114K GitHub stars.
  • VoiceStudio · Merged · Bug fix · VoiceStudio clones voices, dubs and transcribes on your own device, with 102K GitHub stars.
  • Hugging Face Hub · Merged · Bug fix · Hugging Face's Python client for the Hub's models and datasets, downloaded 233M times a month from PyPI.
  • DeepSeek Harness · In progress · Bug report · DeepSeek's agent harness, where every part of an agent runs as a plugin, downloaded 2.2M times a month from npm.
  • Ollama · In progress · Bug fixes · Ollama runs open models on your own machine or in the cloud; its Docker image has been pulled 197M times.
  • Ponytail · In progress · Bug fix · With 186K GitHub stars, Ponytail steers coding agents toward only the code a task needs. (issue #1362)
  • Codex · In progress · Bug report · OpenAI's coding agent for the terminal, downloaded 91M times a month from npm.
  • Matplotlib · In progress · Bug fix · Matplotlib makes static, animated and interactive plots in Python, downloaded 159M times a month from PyPI.
  • Datasets · In progress · Bug fixes · Hugging Face's library for loading and processing machine learning datasets, downloaded 67M times a month from PyPI.
  • Claude Agent SDK · In progress · Bug fix · Anthropic's Python SDK for building agents on Claude Code, downloaded 30M times a month from PyPI.
Widely used developer tools
  • God's Eye View · Merged · Bug fix · God's Eye View puts live public data on an explorable globe, with 63K GitHub stars.
  • CleanYourTV · Merged · Bug fix · CleanYourTV disables unwanted software on Android TV and Google TV over Wi-Fi, starred 53K times on GitHub.
  • colibrì · Merged · Bug fix · colibrì runs large open mixture-of-experts models on hardware you already have, with 48K GitHub stars.
  • Claude Code Router · Merged · Bug fix · Claude Code Router sends Claude Code requests to the model provider you choose, downloaded 158K times a month from npm.
  • Laya · Merged · Bug fix · Laya turns text into choices, scores and yes-or-no answers, downloaded 272K times a month from PyPI.
  • Claude HUD · Merged · Bug fix · Claude HUD shows Claude Code's context, tools, agents and tasks at a glance, with 29K GitHub stars.
  • Filee · Merged · Bug fix · With 23K GitHub stars, Filee converts files between hundreds of formats offline by drag and drop.
  • Moli · Merged · Bug fix · Moli lets AI agents fetch pages and run browser tasks, with 23K GitHub stars.
  • ccstatusline · Merged · New feature · ccstatusline puts Claude Code metrics in a customizable status line, downloaded 198K times a month from npm. (v2.2.33)
  • caire · Merged · Bug fixes · caire resizes images by content-aware seam carving, with 11K GitHub stars. (#115, #116, #119)
  • HyperFrames · In progress · Bug fix · HeyGen's HyperFrames renders HTML, CSS and animations to MP4 video, downloaded 4.2M times a month from npm.
  • PhotoCraft · In progress · Bug fix · PhotoCraft is a native Rust editor for layered images and PSD files, with 77K GitHub stars.
  • SGLang · In progress · Bug fix · SGLang is a serving framework for language, vision and diffusion models, downloaded 3.0M times a month from PyPI.
  • Qwen Code · In progress · Bug fix · The Qwen team's open-source coding agent for terminals and editors, downloaded 363K times a month from npm.
  • PdfCraft · In progress · Bug fix · PdfCraft reads, organizes, merges, splits and secures PDFs in a native app, with 20K GitHub stars.
  • LM Evaluation Harness · In progress · Bug fix · EleutherAI's harness for testing language models across many evaluation tasks, downloaded 1.0M times a month from PyPI.
Smaller projects
  • claude-swap · Merged · Bug fix · claude-swap switches between Claude Code accounts and tracks their usage, downloaded 19K times a month from PyPI. (v0.27.2)
  • ManimGX · Merged · Bug fixes · ManimGX renders 2D and 3D animations through Manim's Python API, with 2,564 GitHub stars.
  • ccswap · Credited · Bug fix · ccswap switches Claude Code and Codex accounts and tracks usage, downloaded 979 times a month from PyPI.
  • Kimi Code · In progress · Bug report · Moonshot AI's coding agent for the terminal, downloaded 291K times a month from npm.

The full list is on mertkayacs.com/open-source.

Activity

Contribution calendar and GitHub stats Contributions in the last year as a 3D calendar, with the languages and the kinds of contribution

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  1. reevesagents reevesagents Public

    Run Claude Code, Codex, Kimi, OpenCode, Hermes and 20 other coding agents side by side, from the CLI, TUI, Web UI or MCP.

    TypeScript 107 14

  2. xdfdet xdfdet Public

    Deepfake video detection with eight EfficientNet-B4 checkpoints, Grad-CAM heatmaps and facial-region analysis.

    Python 9 1

  3. jevalt jevalt Public

    Three 4B decision models for English, Turkish and German, with per-option probabilities, GGUF builds and the Jev API.

    Python 8 1

  4. jevoss jevoss Public

    Evaluation tools for Jev-compatible decision models, covering accuracy, calibration, hidden instructions, padding and consistency.

    Python 5 1

  5. ultramod ultramod Public

    the best all-in-one mod pack for Claude Code

    TypeScript 8

  6. tholos tholos Public

    A local workspace where small AI assistants share tables, notes and tasks, with schedules and per-action approval rules.

    Python 1 1