Summer 2025 with Empyreal on Talos — protocol PRs, then owning the TIP Portal integration so anyone can draft proposals with LLM help and land a GitHub PR.
Internship
Empyreal — Talos
Full-stack open-source · TIP Portal on talos.is
Role
Full-stack open-source work on Talos with Empyreal — Summer 2025.
Talos is an open-source agentic protocol incubated by Offchain Labs (Arbitrum). Upgrades flow through Talos Improvement Proposals (TIPs) with human governance over what the agent can do on-chain.
What I built
Early contributions included async function work, docs, dev tooling, caching, system prompt updates, and smaller protocol PRs.
Then I built and integrated the TIP Portal into talos.is with the Empyreal team:
- Create flow — sign in with X OAuth, draft a TIP with a Talos-tuned LLM, accept/edit/reject interactive suggestions, compare against examples, submit.
- On submit, a GitHub bot opens the PR; a GitHub Action registers the Open TIP in the database.
- TIP feed for Open and Implemented proposals — links to GitHub and chat-style questions about authorship, status, and implementation likelihood.
The goal was to abstract away GitHub and protocol complexity so non-technical contributors could still participate in governance.
Why it mattered
Governance only works if the surface area is legible. The portal hides Git churn behind a form and a conversation — same underlying repo and automation.
More technical detail in the project write-up.