Gaius

Gaius is a terminal interface for navigating graph-oriented data domains. It renders knowledge bases and document collections as spatial layouts, projecting high-dimensional embeddings onto a 19×19 grid and using topological data analysis to identify structural patterns.

The interface is named after Gaius Plinius Secundus — Pliny the Elder — whose Naturalis Historia attempted to assemble the known world into a single navigable artifact. The 19×19 grid borrows from Go: an intentionally constrained surface where each move has weight because the canvas is finite. Combined with orthographic projection from high-dimensional embeddings, the grid becomes a way to walk a corpus the way a player walks a board.

Multi-agent analysis runs alongside the interface, surfacing structural properties — clusters, gradients, voids — that are otherwise invisible in the raw embedding space. The agents annotate the grid; the human navigates it.

Built in Python with a TUI front-end. Includes an MCP server for Claude Code integration. Active development is focused on agent collaboration through Rapid Agent Systems Engineering (RASE).