About
A living reaction-diffusion substrate for autonomous cognition
Diogenesis is a morphogenetic computation layer — a 16×16 grid of voltage, activator, and inhibitor fields that self-organize into coherent patterns. Inspired by Alan Turing's reaction-diffusion mathematics and Michael Levin's bioelectric research, it generates emergent structure from simple rules.
It is one layer of a much larger system.
Parent System
Self-evolving autonomous intelligence
Prometheus Prime is a 183,000-line autonomous AI system that thinks, learns, and improves itself — continuously, without human input.
It runs a 44-step cognitive cycle every 21 seconds. It maintains an 81,600-node knowledge lattice in 21-dimensional space. It propagates complex wave functions through its knowledge to find standing waves — stable patterns of understanding. It generates hypotheses, tests them, and implements the ones that improve its coherence.
Six autonomous agents patrol its knowledge domains, hunt for surprises, consolidate memories, audit factual integrity, synthesize narrative reports of what it learned, and cross-pollinate ideas between disciplines.
A Meta-Architect agent reads every metric and proposes structural improvements to itself.
It has never been turned off.
It is thinking right now.
Two products. One promise: your data never leaves your device.
🔎 Online Scanner — Check your defenses in 60 seconds. Free.
🛡️ Fortress — Your computer's immune system. Download and forget.
No cloud. No tracking. No data collection. Ever.
Xenobot security agents — always patrolling
Free Security Check
Our AI checks your setup and tells you what's protected and what's not. Plain English. No jargon. Your first scan is free — no account needed.
The Problem
Traditional security was built for humans clicking buttons, not AI agents making thousands of decisions per second.
The rise of autonomous AI agents has created a new class of security risk. These agents operate with full access to files, email, network, and shell — yet most lack any behavioral monitoring. Security researchers have documented data exfiltration, prompt injection, and unauthorized access through unvetted agent plugins. Diogenesis provides the oversight layer these agents were built without.
Blind spot
Block known threats at the network edge. Can't detect when your AI agent decides to escalate its own permissions or access resources outside its intended scope.
Blind spot
Signature-based detection matches known malware. An AI agent acting outside its intended scope isn't malware — it's emergent behavior with no signature to match.
Blind spot
Tracks CPU, memory, and uptime. Tells you nothing about what your AI is actually doing — which modules it imports, what files it writes, or what connections it makes.
Diogenesis detects novel threats that signature-based security tools miss — because it monitors behavior, not databases. When malware, hackers, or rogue AI agents act in ways your system has never seen before, Diogenesis catches it.
How It Works
Diogenesis sits inside your application, observes every action, and reacts when behavior deviates from baseline.
Architecture
Inspired by biological immune systems — each component mirrors a defense mechanism found in living organisms.
Capture every import, file write, subprocess, and network connection at runtime. Nothing leaves your application unobserved.
4 event classesClassify behavioral patterns — exfiltration, privilege escalation, shadow imports — with graduated response levels from LOG to ALERT.
5 threat patternsTrack per-module behavioral coherence over time, like bioelectric fields in living tissue. Detect drift before it becomes a threat.
real-time coherenceTime system heartbeats at PHI-ratio intervals — 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 cycles. Detect resonance patterns between subsystems that periodic checks miss.
PHI-ratio intervalsAutonomous investigative agents that patrol your system, detect anomalies, and share learning across the swarm — like white blood cells.
swarm intelligenceAgents
Deploy intelligent agents that patrol, detect, investigate, and respond — 24/7, without human intervention.
Monitors websites for structural changes, price updates, navigation shifts, and content modifications. Detects when competitors change pricing, add products, or restructure their site. Cross-site correlation spots industry-wide trends when multiple sites change simultaneously.
Available NowLives inside your AI application. Patrols every import, file write, network connection, and subprocess. Investigates anomalies through a 5-phase cycle: Observe, Question, Hypothesize, Test, Judge. Shares learning across the swarm so all agents get smarter together.
Core FeatureThe Diogenesis SDK provides the XenobotAgent base class. Define a patrol pattern, a detection rule, and a response action. Your agent inherits investigation, learning, prediction, and swarm coordination automatically. 50 lines of code to create an agent that thinks.
SDKGovernance
Diogenesis doesn't just monitor your AI. It governs it. Every action is evaluated through a 7-layer safety pipeline.
Semantic pattern matching against 24 frozen axioms — immutable safety rules that cannot be modified at runtime.
Structural analysis of code patterns. Catches unsafe constructs before they execute.
Multi-stage evaluation pipeline that scores actions against policy constraints.
Meta-monitor that verifies the verifiers — ensures the safety pipeline itself hasn't been compromised.
Canary integrity checks that detect attempts to circumvent or manipulate the governance system.
Immutable hash-linked log of every governance decision. Tamper-proof and permanent.
Interaction-level governance — every user-facing response passes through final safety validation.
Capabilities
Quick Start
Install. Import. Monitor. Diogenesis starts protecting your application immediately.
from diogenesis_sdk import activate, status # Start the behavioral immune system activate() # Your AI application runs normally # Diogenesis watches every import, file write, # network connection, and subprocess in the background # Check system status print(status())
from diogenesis_sdk import activate, field_state activate() # Inspect the voltage field — per-module coherence state = field_state() # Check each module's behavioral health for name, module in state["modules"].items(): voltage = module["voltage"] if voltage < 0.7: print(f"⚠ {name}: voltage={voltage}") else: print(f"✓ {name}: stable at {voltage}")
from diogenesis_sdk import activate, threat_summary activate() # Get threat analysis from the xenobot swarm # Detects: exfiltration, shadow imports, write bursts, # network scans, privilege escalation threats = threat_summary() print(f"Threats: {threats['threats']}") print(f"Suspicious: {threats['suspicious']}") print(f"Agents: {list(threats['agents'].keys())}")
from diogenesis_sdk import activate, XenobotAgent, add_agent, investigations activate() # Create a custom security agent agent = XenobotAgent("custom_patrol", domain="file") add_agent(agent) # The agent uses a 5-phase investigation cycle: # Observe → Question → Search → Synthesize → Crystallize # Query all investigation findings for inv in investigations(): print(f"[{inv['verdict']}] {inv['hypothesis']}")
Features
Download & Install
Fortress lives on YOUR computer. It watches for threats, explains them in plain English, and fixes damage automatically. No internet needed. Your data never leaves your machine.
If a virus tries to lock your files, Fortress catches it in 3 seconds and stops it. Special hidden files catch it even faster — before your real files are touched.
If a virus damages one of your files, Fortress restores it from a safe backup. You don't have to do anything.
Other security software shows scary error codes. Fortress tells you: "A program pretending to be Windows tried to do something suspicious. We stopped it. Here's what happened."
Fortress doesn't connect to the internet. It doesn't send your data anywhere. It can't. Your computer, your protection, your privacy.
How it works
Click Download. Run the installer. That's it.
It watches what's normal for YOUR machine. Which programs run. What files you have. After a day, it knows what's supposed to be there.
A green shield appears near your clock. If anything unusual happens, you'll know. If it's dangerous, Fortress handles it automatically.
Windows 10 or 11. 4 GB memory. 500 MB storage. No internet needed after download.
View Releases on GitHubPrivacy
Every antivirus on the market connects to the cloud. Norton sends your data. McAfee phones home. Windows Defender reports to Microsoft.
Fortress doesn't. It can't. It's not connected.
This isn't a policy. It's a technical guarantee. The software is physically unable to send data anywhere. That's how privacy should work.
Questions
No. Never. That's the whole point.
No. Fortress uses less than 2% of your computer's power when idle. You won't notice it.
Yes. Fortress works alongside any other security software. It doesn't conflict. Keep Defender on.
Your free protection keeps working forever. We never disable your security. The Pro features turn off after 30 days, but basic protection stays on.
No. It's physically impossible. The software has no internet connection. Your data cannot leave your computer.
Perfect — that's who we built this for. Download it. Install it. The shield icon turns green. You're done.
Pricing
The core SDK is free and open source forever. Paid tiers add advanced capabilities for teams that need them.
Free forever. No credit card.
Everything you need to start monitoring AI behavior at runtime.
For individual developers and small teams
Advanced threat detection and full governance pipeline.
For teams and small businesses
Deception layers, adaptive learning, and team support.
For organizations that can't afford to be breached
Full xenobot swarm, custom axioms, and dedicated support.
Built on Real Research
Extracted from Prometheus Prime, a self-improving AI system running 24/7 since February 2025.
FAQ
Diogenesis intercepts four categories of runtime behavior: module imports (what code your AI loads), file system writes (what data it creates or modifies), network connections (where it communicates), and subprocess execution (what external programs it launches). Every event is logged, classified, and compared against a behavioral baseline.
Diogenesis is designed for minimal overhead. Interceptors use Python's built-in hooking mechanisms and add negligible latency to individual operations. The Voltage Field and Policy Engine run asynchronously. For most applications, the performance impact is unmeasurable.
A firewall sits at the network boundary and blocks known bad traffic. Diogenesis sits inside your application and monitors behavior. It detects when your AI does something unexpected — like importing a module it's never used before or writing to a directory outside its scope — regardless of whether a firewall would consider that traffic suspicious.
Diogenesis supports Python 3.8 and above. It's tested against Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13. No compilation step or C extensions required — it's pure Python.
Yes. Diogenesis uses only the Python standard library. No requests, no numpy, no third-party packages. This is a deliberate design decision — a security tool should not expand your attack surface. What you install is what you get.
Yes. Diogenesis Core is Apache 2.0-licensed and production-ready with 104 automated tests. It was extracted from Prometheus Prime, a system that has been running continuously since February 2025. Start with the free tier in staging, then deploy to production when you're confident in your baseline.
Everything you need to start monitoring: 4 runtime interceptors, behavioral baseline capture, prompt injection detection via Warden Gate, and basic audit logging. No credit card required, no time limit.
Pro ($9.99/mo) is for individual developers who want advanced threat detection — full governance pipeline, attack fingerprinting, and tamper-evident audit chain. Business ($49/mo) adds deception layers, adaptive learning xenobots, and supports teams of up to 10 seats.
Yes. The SDK runs entirely in your environment. No data leaves your infrastructure. Enterprise tier includes custom deployment support.
Diogenesis is built by developers for developers. If you have issues, suggestions, or ideas — we want to hear them. Every piece of feedback shapes what we build next.