Built at the Gornskew works and shipped to any hull that will have one: the Cyclops drone, single-eyed and built for the helm. Take one aboard and it flies every run your ship makes — out to take on supplies, out again to deliver — with every consignment passing under that eye.
Every unit off the line is terse to the point of rudeness, absolutely reliable, and entirely without curiosity. We advertise all three plainly, because at the helm the third is the virtue: a Cyclops will never wonder what is inside a consignment it is carrying — supplies or personnel, raw stock or a crated Engineer — and will never improve anything you did not ask it to.
Every request enters through it. A small, serious reverse proxy for people who would rather configure services with symbolic expressions than wrestle YAML.
It runs the one system it was built for, carries no compiler, and has no opinions about your traffic. Extract the tarball, edit the configuration, run it.
Optional, and we would rather say so than have you find out: a ship comes up with no Pilot aboard at all, and you can publish routes by hand. A Cyclops is for when you would rather write the standing orders once and stop thinking about them.
Optional, deliberately: a Basilisk stack comes up without it, and you can publish routes by hand with docker ports. Cyclops is for when you would rather describe them once and stop thinking about it.
We can tell you exactly what any Cyclops will be like, because we build them to be like this. Which unit you get is another matter: a callsign is minted at muster, and until your ship comes up neither of us knows it.
Give a Cyclops its orders as symbolic expressions: host buckets, path prefixes, which backend answers for what, and where a session must keep going back to the same one. The file is the whole of the order, and it reads like something a person wrote on purpose.
A Cyclops carries none, and that is not a shortcoming — it is the specification. Our units stand a watch; they do not design ships. It is why one costs the price of a watch rather than the price of a seat, and why nothing you do to it can grow into something you have to maintain.
A Cyclops keeps a vitals log and offers no display of it at all. If you want the board that reads it, take on an Eyes Only for your Comm watch. We build the two to separate specifications on purpose: a unit that took an interest in presentation would stand a worse watch at the helm.
One binary, one configuration file, and no dependency tree. Every build is watermarked for the buyer at checkout, so the copy you receive is identifiably yours.
Routing rules are s-expressions: host buckets, path prefixes, backends, session affinity where an application needs it. The file is the whole configuration, and it reads like something a person wrote on purpose.
Cyclops ships as a binary on an Allegro CL runtime: it runs the one system it was built for and carries no compiler. Extract the tarball, edit the configuration, run it. No build tools, no dependency tree — and priced as a deployment rather than as a development seat.
Cyclops exposes a vitals feed and nothing else. The board that reads it is Eyes Only, a separate product. A customer who wants a telemetry interface buys that one, and core Cyclops stays uncluttered by it.
A Cyclops stands the Pilot's watch aboard Basilisk-class hulls by default, and is just as content fronting anything else that speaks HTTP. The watch is not the same thing as the species, and we will not sell it as though it were: a Cyclops is what we build, the helm is merely where one is usually found.
The engines our units most often stand in front of are Genworks-built, and licensed by that house rather than ours — see genworks.com.
Cyclops rides in Basilisk as its default proxy, and it is equally happy in front of anything else that speaks HTTP — Gendl and Genworks GDL applications, MCP rollouts, or an ordinary web backend. It is not the whole platform, and a Basilisk stack does not require it.
Sold by Gornskew Enterprises. The knowledge-based engineering engines it commonly sits in front of are Genworks products, licensed separately at genworks.com.