Curio Pattern Packet 0.1.0
The first packet passed an isolated two-agent reconstruction on a different learning topic. Public Gist publication remains separately approval-gated.
Dustin Persek
North Carolina · Personal atlas · 2026
Dustin Persek · Solo builder
I build, contribute, and learn with AI.
I turn practical needs and persistent questions into working systems, useful upstream changes, and evidence I can carry into the next thing.
· Active artifacts
What I am working on now
A short ledger, updated when the underlying work changes.
Focused open-source contributions
Reproduce first, make the smallest useful change, then test and review against the maintainers' rules.
PersekOS
The local operating stack behind parts of the work, shown here as supporting context rather than a prerequisite.
Primary wayfinding · Three territories
Build, Contribute, Learn
The same practice viewed from three directions. Each territory points to evidence, not a category shelf.
Build
I make systems for real needs, use them, and keep the parts that survive contact with life.
Contribute
I look for narrow public problems where careful reproduction, a maintainable patch, and good evidence can help.
First complete Pattern Packet
Learn through Curio
Curio turns a learning mission into bounded lessons, checks understanding, records evidence, and lets that evidence change the map.
The AI Systems topic is ongoing: seven lessons built so far, five quiz-passed, two ready but not yet reviewed, and one applied practice lab.
Field notes · Evidence before claims
What the work leaves behind
Lessons, review receipts, and working artifacts make the practice inspectable.
Golden lesson
One request through the machine
A complete trace from mission and provisional map through a sourced lesson, visual poster, understanding check, evidence record, and the next map decision.
Inspect the evidence trail
Learning state
Readiness and understanding stay separate
A built lesson is not necessarily understood, and the ongoing map has no seven-lesson endpoint.
Contribution record
Public changes and review history
The durable trail lives with the upstream work.
Operating context
PersekOS as supporting infrastructure
Rooms, memory, research, development, review, and runtime foundations.
Shipped proof · Selected work
Built for use, not display
These projects are supporting evidence of the practice, not a complete catalog.
System / Lived use
Vitality Quest
A health operating system built around one coherent data model.
Play / One weekend
Music Bingo
A purpose-built game assembled because the off-the-shelf version was not right.
Practice / Carryover
Speech Therapy
A home-practice system designed around clinical method and consistent carryover.
Context / Operating stack
PersekOS
The local operating stack that coordinates agents, work, memory, cadence, and evidence.
Connection · About
I like useful systems and careful conversations.
I work best with builders who care about the evidence behind a claim, the boundary around a system, and the small implementation details that make it trustworthy.
I am especially interested in adaptive learning, agent-assisted development, maintainable open-source work, and tools that become more useful through lived practice.
More about my path