InauguralSystems/EigenScript

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A standalone programming language with native observer semantics, closures, dictionaries, error handling, and a self-interpreter — all in a single zero-dependency C binary

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In the last 30 days, InauguralSystems/EigenScript merged 15 of 15 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 15 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars: 3
Forks: 7
Open beginner issues: 15
Indexed issues: 470
Avg merge: 6h 32m
Merged PRs (30d): 285

Dominant language: C
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 26, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 23, 2026
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Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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ext_http.c has no fuzz target: the harness feeds programs to the interpreter, never requests to the server
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area:gates area:http

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2348 · Opened Nov 12, 2026

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hash.c and builtins.c still name an HMAC-SHA256 builtin that is no longer registered
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good first issue needs-triage

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2347 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 12, 2026

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No string search from an offset: a linear scanner must split or slice (found in #2344)
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area:stdlib enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2346 · Opened Nov 12, 2026

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CI: require SHA-pinned actions by the repository setting, not by a script
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area:ci

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2343 · Opened Nov 11, 2026

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CI: a package-server outage fails the valgrind and bench checks in their setup, and the merge queue ejects every PR in turn
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area:ci found-by:ci

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2341 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2026

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Observer reveal: fixes to the driver and its records that wait until after the Round 3 reveal
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area:observer kind:tracking

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2340 · Opened Nov 11, 2026

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doc drift: CLAUDE.md lists archived iLambdaAi as an active forcing-function consumer
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needs-triage

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 82/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2335 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 9, 2026

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Tape reader: corrupt O records that are skipped or accepted instead of refused (unknown subtype, non-canonical numbers, embedded NUL)
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area:trace-tape bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2334 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2026

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Observer oracle: cite a verified source for uniform-step random-walk recurrence in the instrument itself, after the Round 3 reveal (family 10)
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area:observer enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2329 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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Observer oracle: derive.py's NaN-window rule looks at 10 values, the observer's window holds 11 (ieee_nan_recover@13 stable)
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area:observer kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 8/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2328 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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Round 3 control (c): a window-4 observer does not lose 0.05 BA on converged on the calibration data (#1758 R3.0-I)
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area:observer kind:decision

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2327 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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Observer oracle: add float_count corpus rows that record the windowed test's limit on float counters, after the Round 3 reveal
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area:observer enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 22/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2326 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 3, 2026

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Observer oracle: verdicts the v0.46.0 tag got WRONG have no gate once a round makes them right
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area:gates area:observer kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2325 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 3, 2026

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Build: pin -std (or test the next C default) so a runner-image compiler change cannot break CI unannounced (follow-up to #2316)
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area:ci enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2323 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 2, 2026

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Suite: marker-only sections ignore the exit status (sanitizer reports after the summary pass); lint uncaptured $(./eigenscript) rc
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area:gates kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2322 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 2, 2026

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tests: a child .sh that prints only SKIP: and exits 0 still passes the generic child-marker rule
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area:gates kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2318 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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test: the LSP behaviour harness has no pinned check count, and [88] exits 0 (SKIP) without python3
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area:gates area:lint-tooling kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2314 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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Playground: `exit of N` returns rc 1 from eigs_run_source instead of N
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area:embed kind:bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2311 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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Playground: serve lib/ through the eigs_source_lookup provider seam so `import math` works in the browser
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area:embed enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2310 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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freestanding_check: hosted-RNG check misses rand/srand in headers, macro aliases and function pointers
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area:gates kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2309 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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tools/enrolment_check.sh: a crashing enrolment_edges.py is not reported as ABORTED (|| reads sort's status)
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area:gates kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2305 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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tests: a path-named or launcher-exec'd command that does not exist (rc 127) still fails open in a suite fragment
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area:gates kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2303 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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tests: on the macOS lane (bash 3.2) an undefined command in a suite fragment still fails open
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area:gates kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2304 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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lib/geometry: circle_intersection_points loses precision at extreme radius ratios
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area:stdlib kind:bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2298 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 1, 2026

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Release provenance follow-up: selectable old workflows can bypass branch-local guards; new v* tag creation remains unrestricted
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area:ci kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2294 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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release: binaries and the ghcr image ship without the MIT license text
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area:ci bug found-by:duet-audit

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2283 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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docs: INSTRUMENTS.md and PERFORMANCE.md state the bench gate at 5% over five workloads; it is 0.5% over ten
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area:docs found-by:duet-audit kind:docs-drift

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2282 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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bench/run_bench.sh publishes a median for a workload that crashed, states no noise floor, and its PERFORMANCE.md table dates from July
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area:gates found-by:duet-audit kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2281 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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bench: checked-in baseline.txt is 24% stale, so the local Ir gate fails on clean main and PERFORMANCE.md publishes October 1 counts
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area:gates found-by:duet-audit kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2280 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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ci: the LSP sanitizer step rebuilds a whole ASan variant on the shard that sets merge-queue wall time (~8 min)
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area:ci enhancement found-by:duet-audit status:claimed

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2277 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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Continuous fuzzing lane on HF: fuzz main around the clock, auto-file findings (start after the Phase 2 merge)
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area:ci enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2276 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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secure_equals raises on a non-string, but BUILTINS.md says non-strings return false
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area:stdlib kind:docs-drift

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2252 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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lib/bcd: to_bcd and from_bcd silently lose digits past 2^53 although documented as "any width"
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area:stdlib bug found-by:duet-audit kind:silent-wrong status:held

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2238 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 31, 2026

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Issue hygiene: #1416 and #1665 show unticked boxes for work that has landed
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area:memory area:runtime-vm found-by:duet-audit kind:tracking

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2223 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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Issue hygiene: #1682 duplicates half of #1646, and #2212 plus #2198's open boxes are already in #1688
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area:gfx area:observer found-by:duet-audit kind:tracking

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2222 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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Issue hygiene: #1184, #1585 and #1709 are about code that was removed; #1678 names two pool arms that no longer exist
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area:memory found-by:duet-audit kind:tracking

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2221 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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X11 title and ctype tests pick their display from $$ and can silently attach to a foreign X server
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area:gfx kind:bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2216 · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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test_gfx_ctype_locale.sh starts Xvfb without -noreset, so a gfx case can die "x11 not available" under load
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area:gfx kind:bug

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2215 · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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eigs.json cannot declare a test-only dependency (no dev-dependency section)
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area:packages enhancement found-by:consumer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2213 · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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Source comments still describe the removed set_observer_window; replay still accepts an O win record
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area:observer area:trace-tape found-by:code-review kind:docs-drift

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2198 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Decision: should an unknown member of an imported module raise instead of reading as null?
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area:runtime-vm found-by:code-review kind:decision

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2199 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Bool index says 'cannot index list' without naming the bool (slice path names it)
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area:runtime-vm bug found-by:cold-read kind:bug status:held

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2196 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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A failed --test run ends in an ASSERT FAIL trace from lib/test_runner.eigs
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area:stdlib bug found-by:cold-read kind:bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 83/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2197 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Calling a misspelled module member says only 'cannot call null'
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area:runtime-vm bug found-by:cold-read kind:bug status:held

Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2195 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Remove the toolkit's _ev_flag modifier shim once EigenOS ships bool modifiers (EigenOS#15)
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area:gfx enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 53/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2192 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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Feasibility: a machine-checked no-crash proof of the fuzz harness (Theorem/Anthropic RISC-V Rocq pipeline)
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area:gates enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2189 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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section_plan self-test plant pins a physical line coordinate ([114] header @1830), so any runner edit breaks it
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area:gates kind:gate-defect

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2188 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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--pkg has no transitive resolver: dependencies of dependencies are not installed and the one-pin rule is unenforced
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area:packages bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2176 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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--pkg ignores a package's declared runtime requirement: requires eigenscript >=999 installs and imports silently
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area:packages bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2175 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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ML package (first --pkg consumer): step plan for #1410's adopted decision
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area:packages kind:tracking

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

InauguralSystems/EigenScript#2170 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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