Open-sourcing old projects

01 / What it was

On 9 Oct we went through older repositories to see which could be shared. The rule: never open an active project, and nothing goes public until it is checked for secrets and personal data.

Each one that passed got a new README with real screenshots. Among them was a cleaned public copy of the original hologram prototype, the first Omo.

02 / How it worked

• Scripted scans of each repo and its full history for secrets, emails, home-folder paths and private addresses.
• Separate checks for personal data and for text inside images, including old images in the history.
• Where the history was not safe, a new repo was made from a cleaned copy instead of opening the old one.
• The cleaned hologram README calls it a research prototype, MIT licensed, and says all data in its demo is invented.
• The day before, the Minecraft project itself moved to the public Omo Research organisation after the same kind of audit.

03 / What we saw

Most of the work was the audit, not the README. Audits were re-run several times before anything was left public.

04 / Where it led

Later research code, like the robot and agent-player repos, went public the same way.

Sources

1. Session transcript. session transcript, 9 Oct 2026 just dont open source the active projects- but each repo is special for a reason you can open source it BUT ENSURE no credentials or anything
2. Session transcript. session transcript, 9 Oct 2026 really we dont wnat to be leaking stuff
3. Session transcript. session transcript, 8 Oct 2026 just do an audit to ensure there are no credentials or personal things in there before
4. Hologram README (public cleaned copy). hologram repo README, Oct 2026 The real app, recorded headless. All data in the demo is invented.