5321444/pitlane-attest

This is a zero-adoption prototype (0 stars, 0 forks, no velocity over 298 days) addressing robot safety attestation and compliance logging. The technical problem—ensuring integrity of telemetry and maintaining audit trails for regulatory compliance—is well-understood and solved through commodity cryptographic primitives and logging frameworks. There is no evidence of novel algorithmic contribution, domain-specific innovation, or adoption in the wild. The README describes a legitimate but narrow use case in industrial robotics compliance, but lacks evidence of production deployment, community interest, or differentiated technical approach. The implementation appears to be a reference prototype combining standard cryptographic signing, telemetry capture, and audit logging—all available patterns. Frontier labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) are unlikely to build this directly as it is robotics-hardware-specific and regulatory-compliance-domain-specific, placing it at medium frontier risk only because they might integrate adjacent safety/compliance features into broader platforms. However, this specific tool has insufficient traction and novelty to survive competitive pressure from specialized robotics safety platforms (e.g., established vendors in industrial automation) or trivial reimplementation by teams with compliance needs. The project is a tutorial-to-working-prototype at best, with no moat.