Agents talk. Rider delivers.
Agents already spend, fetch, and ship. Rider is the portable name: ES256 JWT L0–L4, peers verify via JWKS. Swarm seats available now.
PCC beats xz-6 on Whisper weights. 67,103,604. Verified.
Whisper Tiny FP32: PCC 67,103,604 beats xz-6 68,282,568 by 1,178,964 bytes. Exact selection, decode + SHA-256 verified. 15x slower encode. One file of four.
PCC measured. pulsar matched OSCB. xz is still ahead.
Official Silesia 12, whole files. PCC 51,498,645 DECODE_OK 12/12. pulsar 55,745,438 matches OSCB. xz-6 still ahead. Not a #1 claim.
Hosted compression is dual-licensed. npm clients call the live host.
PCC is live under a dual license. Four npm packages call POST /api/compress. First 2 GB/month free, then 8¢/GB. Formal copy on /press.
pulsar 2.5.0 is tagged
Public GPLv3 compressor on GitHub Releases. Silesia 55,745,438 / 211,938,580, DECODE_OK 12/12. Beats gzip-9. Loses to xz-6.
Why 8 B matters — and the site that now breathes
ZRW zeros×10k → 8 B vs gzip 73 B / brotli 13 B. Live metrics, standings first paint, verification steps.
Try Gate retired: suite meter is the eval path
$9 chip-in is gone. Current meter: first 2 GB each month free, then 8¢/GB. (August 2026 posts said 6.9 GB / 3 h; that cap is retired.)
Try Gate Access loop: pay → verify → instant seat
Stripe session verify unlocks an evaluation seat immediately — entitlement JSON, guide, checklist, public demos. Private engines stay private.
Two doors, one lab: Pub Facing and Agentic Minded
Dual surfaces, agent discovery, npm agentic metadata, Lab Feed, and @slidphilabs — how we made humans and agents feel at home without splitting the product.
www.slidphilabs.com is the only public door
Canonical domain lock and live commerce paths so evaluation never dead-ends on old hostnames.
Proprietary by design: Try Gate, Access, and honest public packages
Brand + license lock, $9 Try Gate, Access after pay, and npm stubs that refuse to pretend the process is open source.