RMANOV/strix

Strix is a 23K-line Rust prototype with zero traction (1 star, 1 fork, 0 activity velocity over 24 days). While the README signals interesting technical ambitions—combining combinatorial auctions, particle filters, and 'fear' meta-parameters for drone swarm control with explainability—there is no evidence of users, deployments, or community engagement. The project appears to be a personal research exploration rather than a production system or even a beta-stage tool. The novelty lies in the *combination* of algorithmic approaches (auctions + particle filters + XAI) applied to swarm coordination, but each component (combinatorial auctions, particle filtering, interpretability) is well-established. The 'fear meta-parameter' is intriguing but underdocumented in a 24-day-old repo with no activity. Frontier risk is **high** because: (1) autonomous swarm coordination is an active research area at frontier labs (OpenAI/Anthropic have robotics teams, Google has robotics division); (2) the problem space is small enough that a 23K-line Rust implementation could be replicated or integrated as a feature in a larger robotics platform; (3) the technical components (auctions, particle filters, explainability) are commodity techniques, not proprietary breakthroughs. A frontier lab building a swarm platform would likely build or license this capability in-house rather than adopt Strix. Defensibility is **2** because: no adoption, no network effects, no data gravity, trivial switching costs (it's a prototype library), and the architectural choices (Rust, specific algorithm choices) don't create lock-in. The project is a reference implementation, not infrastructure.