A monorepo of 72 production-grade Zig programs , 132 coreutils replacements , and a bare-metal x86_64/aarch64 operating system — developed by QUANTUM ENCODING LTD.
quantum-zig-forge/
├── programs/ # 72 standalone programs and libraries
│ ├── zig_ai/ # Universal AI CLI + agent SDK with C FFI
│ ├── zig_inference/ # ML inference engine (LLaMA, Whisper)
│ ├── zig_core_utils/ # 132 GNU coreutils replacements
│ ├── zigix_desktop/ # TUI window manager for Zigix OS
│ ├── zigix_monitor/ # System resource monitor for Zigix OS
│ └── ... # 67 more programs (see full catalog below)
├── zigix/ # Bare-metal x86_64/aarch64 OS (M1-M16 + U1-U20)
├── build.zig # Root build orchestrator
├── zig-out/ # Centralized build output
│ ├── bin/ # All program binaries
│ └── lib/ # Shared libraries
└── docs/ # Monorepo-wide documentation
Program
Description
Binary
Status
zig_ai
Universal AI CLI + agent SDK — Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, OpenAI. Agent mode with 17 tools, orchestrator DAG engine, C FFI with 40+ exports.
zig-ai
Complete
zig_inference
From-scratch ML inference — LLaMA text generation (GGUF) + Whisper speech-to-text (ggml). Quantized weights (Q4_0/Q8_0), mmap loading, multi-threaded matmul.
zig-infer
Complete
cerberus
GPU/TPU ML predictor — Keras models, TPU training, GPU vs TPU benchmarking.
(Python)
Research
cognitive_telemetry_kit
AI cognitive state monitoring — D-Bus server, SQLite persistence, Claude Code hooks, CSV export.
chronos-hook, cognitive-state-server
Complete
Program
Description
Binary
Status
http_sentinel
Production HTTP client library — thread-safe, client-per-worker, GZIP, AI provider clients.
(library)
Complete
http_sentinel_ffi
HTTP client C FFI — blocking interface, caller-provided buffers, TLS support.
libhttp_sentinel.a
Complete
quantum_curl
High-velocity HTTP router — JSONL battle plans, thread-per-request, ~2ms p99 latency.
quantum-curl
Complete
zig_reverse_proxy
HTTP reverse proxy — round-robin/least-connections LB, health checks, WebSocket proxying.
reverse-proxy
Complete
zig_dns_server
Authoritative DNS server — RFC 1035, zone files, A/AAAA/CNAME/MX/NS/TXT/SOA records.
dns-server
Complete
zig_websocket
RFC 6455 WebSocket — frame parsing, masking, handshake, fragmentation. ~71M decode ops/sec.
websocket-demo
Complete
warp_gate
P2P file transfer — NAT traversal (STUN/UDP hole punch), mDNS, ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption.
warp
Complete
zero_copy_net
io_uring zero-copy network stack — lock-free buffer pool, TCP server.
tcp-echo
WIP
zig_dpdk
Userspace network stack — AF_XDP, ixgbe PMD, hugepage allocator, poll-mode RX/TX for 10/40/100GbE.
zig-dpdk
WIP
Program
Description
Binary
Status
financial_engine
HFT trading system ("The Great Synapse") — sub-microsecond latency, lock-free order book, Alpaca integration.
zig-financial-engine
Complete
market_data_parser
SIMD-accelerated exchange feed parser — 2M+ msg/sec, ~96ns/msg, Binance/Coinbase protocols.
bench-parser
Complete
timeseries_db
Columnar time series DB — mmap zero-copy, SIMD delta encoding, B-tree indexing, 10M+ reads/sec.
tsdb
Complete
stratum_engine_claude
Stratum mining engine — SIMD SHA256d, mempool monitoring, mbedTLS exchange connections.
stratum-engine
Complete
stratum_engine_grok
io_uring Stratum engine — zero-copy async networking, native SHA256d.
stratum-engine-grok
Complete
Cryptography and Security
Program
Description
Binary
Status
simd_crypto_ffi
AVX-512 crypto primitives — SHA256 (10GB/s), BLAKE3 (15GB/s), ChaCha20 (20GB/s), AES-GCM (25GB/s). C FFI.
libquantum_crypto.a
WIP
zig-quantum-encryption
Post-quantum crypto — NIST FIPS 203 ML-KEM-768, hybrid with X25519, AES-256-GCM.
(library)
WIP
zig_jwt
JWT tokens — HS256 signing, verification, decoding.
zig-jwt
Complete
zig_secret_scanner
Secret detection — 50+ patterns (AWS, GitHub, Stripe, etc.), entropy analysis, git hooks, SARIF output.
zss
Complete
guardian_shield
Linux security framework — seccomp-BPF, LD_PRELOAD, eBPF monitoring, fork bomb prevention.
zig-sentinel
Complete
zig_jail
Syscall sandbox — seccomp-BPF, namespaces, capability dropping, security profiles.
zig-jail
Complete
zig_port_scanner
TCP port scanner — multi-threaded, service detection, poll()-based non-blocking I/O.
zig-port-scanner
Complete
electrum_ffi
Electrum wallet FFI — scripthash computation, JSON-RPC, Bitcoin SPV.
libelectrum_ffi.a
Complete
mempool_sniffer
Bitcoin mempool monitor — P2P protocol, whale detection, cross-platform (io_uring/kqueue/poll).
libmempool_sniffer_core.a
WIP
quantum_seed_vault
Crypto seed manager — Raspberry Pi LCD HAT, BIP39, terminal UI, ARMv6 target.
quantum-seed-vault
WIP
Data Formats and Serialization
Program
Description
Binary
Status
zig_json
Text-to-JSON converter — auto-detect CSV/TSV/KV/lines, numeric detection.
zig-json
Complete
zig_toml
TOML parser — full spec compliance, streaming parser, datetime support.
zig_toml_demo
Complete
zig_msgpack
MessagePack codec — zero-allocation encoding, lazy decoding, extensions.
msgpack-demo
Complete
zig_xlsx
XLSX to JSON — ZIP/DEFLATE parsing, shared strings, sparse columns.
zig-xlsx
Complete
zig_docx
DOCX to MDX — Word document conversion, image extraction, YAML frontmatter.
zig-docx
WIP
zig_base58
Base58 encoding — Bitcoin/IPFS compatible, Base58Check with SHA256.
zbase58
Complete
PDF and Document Generation
Program
Description
Binary
Status
zig_pdf_engine
PDF generation/parsing — text, vector graphics, images, multi-page, text extraction.
pdf-gen, pdf-text
Complete
zig_pdf_generator
Cross-platform PDF library — C FFI, WASM (362KB), invoices, dividend vouchers, contracts. Edge deployment (Cloudflare/AWS/Deno).
zigpdf.wasm
Complete
zig_charts
SVG charting — candlestick, line, bar, sparkline. Financial and general data visualization.
chart-demo
Complete
Infrastructure and Libraries
Program
Description
Binary
Status
memory_pool
Fixed-size allocator — O(1) alloc/dealloc, free-list, <10ns target.
(library)
WIP
lockfree_queue
Lock-free queues — SPSC + MPMC, cache-line padded, wait-free producer.
(library)
WIP
async_scheduler
Work-stealing scheduler — Chase-Lev deque, thread pool, task priorities.
bench-scheduler
WIP
zig_metrics
Prometheus metrics — atomic counters, gauges, histograms, text export.
metrics-demo
Complete
zig_ratelimit
Rate limiting — 6 algorithms (token bucket, leaky bucket, GCRA, sliding window, fixed window).
ratelimit-demo
Complete
zig_bloom
Probabilistic data structures — Bloom filter, counting Bloom, Count-Min Sketch, HyperLogLog.
bloom-demo
Complete
zig_uuid
UUID generation — v1 (time), v4 (random), v7 (sortable). RFC 4122 compliant.
zuuid
Complete
zig_token_service
Auth token service — composable demo integrating UUID + JWT + rate limiting + Bloom + metrics.
token-service
Complete
zig_humanize
Human-readable formatting — bytes, durations, numbers, ordinals.
(library)
Complete
zig_cron
Task scheduler — interval-based (5s/1m/1h/1d), signal-based shutdown.
zig-cron
Complete
zig_watch
File watcher — poll-based change detection, extension filtering, command execution.
zig-watch
Complete
distributed_kv
Raft KV store — leader election, WAL with CRC32, TTL, CAS, watch/subscribe.
kv-server, kv-client
Complete
wasm_runtime
WebAssembly runtime — MVP spec, WASI preview1, stack VM, multi-module linking.
wasm
Complete
Program
Description
Binary
Status
zig_lens
Code analysis — Zig/Rust/C/Python/JS structural analysis, dependency graphs, cycle detection.
zig-lens
Complete
zig_silicon
Hardware visualization — Zig-to-assembly mapping, register SVG diagrams, HTML docs.
zig-silicon
Complete
zig2asm
Assembly emitter — Zig to .s/.ll/.o with target shortcuts (arm64, x86, wasm, riscv).
zig2asm
Complete
zig-code-query-native
Zig stdlib explorer — function search, call graph traversal, C FFI.
zig-code-query
WIP
zig-ingest
Code graph ingestion — Zig source parsing, SurrealDB integration.
zig-ingest
WIP
zdedupe
Duplicate finder — BLAKE3/SHA256 hashing, multi-threaded, folder comparison, JSON/HTML output.
zdedupe
WIP
register_forge
SVD to Zig codegen — ARM SVD files to type-safe register definitions.
register-forge
WIP
Program
Description
Binary
Status
zig_hal
Hardware abstraction layer — MMIO register access, STM32F4, RP2040, ESP32-C3 targets.
libzig_hal.a
Complete
zig_tui
Terminal UI framework — widgets, layouts, mouse support, 36 source files. Foundation for Zigix tools.
tui-demo
Complete
audio_forge
Real-time audio DSP — lock-free ring buffer, SIMD EQ/compression/reverb, ALSA/PipeWire/JACK. Pure Zig codecs (WAV/FLAC/MP3).
audio-forge
WIP
System Administration and Monitoring
Program
Description
Binary
Status
chronos_engine
Sovereign Clock — PHI-synchronized timestamps, D-Bus, cognitive state tracking.
chronosd, chronos-stamp
Complete
duck_agent_scribe
Agent accountability — lifecycle logging, turn tracking, batch manifests.
duckagent-scribe
Complete
duck_cache_scribe
Git sync daemon — inotify file watching, debounced commits, chronos timestamps.
duckcache-scribe
Complete
claude-shepherd
Claude Code orchestrator — multi-instance management, permission policies, D-Bus, eBPF.
claude-shepherd
WIP
terminal_mux
Terminal multiplexer — PTY management, pane splitting, 10K scrollback, Unix socket IPC.
tmux
Complete
Program
Description
Binary
Status
variable_tester
Distributed variable tester — Queen-Worker swarm, lockfree SPSC, dlopen test plugins.
queen, worker, forge
Complete
hydra
GPU parallel search — CPU Queen + GPU executor (CUDA/TPU via dlopen), SIMD batch preparation.
hydra
WIP
Program
Description
Binary
Status
zigix_desktop
TUI window manager — tiled windows, PTY terminal emulation, PC-98 amber theme, launcher.
zigix-desktop
Complete
zigix_monitor
System dashboard — CPU/memory/disk/network, tabbed interface, /proc integration.
zigix-monitor
Complete
Cross-Platform Build Artifacts
Program
Description
Status
ios-libs
Pre-compiled iOS static libraries (arm64 + simulator) for 10 Zig libraries.
Artifacts
simd_crypto [TODO]
SIMD crypto stubs — SHA256, AES-NI, ChaCha20. Signatures defined, implementations pending.
Stubbed
Zigix — Bare-Metal Operating System
Zigix is a bare-metal x86_64/aarch64 operating system written entirely in Zig, with 36 completed milestones (16 kernel + 20 userspace) and 133 userspace binaries on disk.
Feature
Details
Architectures
x86_64 (primary, Limine bootloader) + aarch64 (ARM64 port, GICv2)
Source files
162 Zig files (115 kernel subsystems)
Syscalls
97 handlers (x86_64), 46 handlers (aarch64), Linux ABI compatible
Processes
64 slots, fork/execve/clone+threads, futex, signals
Memory
4-level paging, demand paging, 256 MiB brk heap, mmap/mprotect/munmap
Filesystems
ext2 (read/write), tmpfs, procfs, devfs, ramfs
Networking
Full TCP/IP: Ethernet, ARP, IPv4, ICMP, UDP, TCP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS
Shell
Line editing, builtins, pipes, job control (Ctrl-C/Z, fg/bg), if/for/while scripting
Multi-user
/etc/passwd auth, uid/gid switching, zlogin
Servers
zsshd (curve25519 + chacha20-poly1305 + ed25519), zhttpd (static files)
Self-hosting
165 MB Zig compiler running demand-paged from ext2 disk
Kernel Milestones (M1-M16)
#
Milestone
Description
M1
Boot + serial
Limine bootloader, framebuffer, serial debug output
M2
GDT/IDT/PIC/PIT
Global descriptor table, interrupt handlers, timer ticks
M3
Physical memory
Page frame allocator, reference counting, contiguous allocation
M4
Virtual memory
4-level paging (PML4), HHDM, kernel/user address spaces
M5
Ring 3 userspace
TSS, user/kernel transitions, system call via int 0x80
M6
Preemptive scheduler
Round-robin, timer-driven preemption, 64 process slots
M7
Syscall table
97 handlers (x86_64), 46 (aarch64), Linux ABI compatible
M8
VFS + ramfs
Virtual filesystem layer, mount table, in-memory filesystem
M9
ELF loader
ELF64 loading, demand-paged segments, shebang support
M10
Process lifecycle
fork, execve, waitpid, pipes, blocking I/O
M11
Block device
virtio-blk driver, descriptor rings, DMA transfers
M12
ext2 filesystem
Read-only ext2, inode/block groups, directory traversal
M13
Demand paging + CoW
Page fault handler, lazy allocation, copy-on-write fork
M14
Threads + futex
clone(CLONE_VM|CLONE_THREAD), futex wait/wake queues
M15
mmap
Anonymous + file-backed mappings, mprotect, munmap, VMA splitting
M16
Signals
rt_sigaction, rt_sigprocmask, signal trampoline, SIGINT/SIGTSTP/SIGCHLD
Userspace Milestones (U1-U20)
#
Milestone
Description
U1
Shell (zsh)
Line editing, builtins (cd/pwd/echo/export/fg/bg/jobs), fork+exec
U2
Cross-compiled utilities
126 musl static binaries + 7 freestanding programs
U3
Init system (zinit)
PID 1, fork+exec shell, reap children, respawn on exit
U4
TCP/IP networking
virtio-net driver, Ethernet/ARP/IPv4/ICMP/UDP/TCP stack, sockets
U5
DNS + zcurl
DNS resolver (UDP), HTTP/1.0 client (TCP), fetch real websites
U6
Shell pipes + zgrep
Multi-stage pipelines, file redirection, pipe-based utilities
U7
Signals + job control
SIGINT/SIGTSTP, process groups, Ctrl-C/Z, fg/bg/jobs
U8
/proc + /dev
procfs (status, exe, maps, uptime, meminfo), devfs (null, zero, urandom)
U9
Mass utility import
133 binaries in /bin/ from zig_core_utils
U10
Environment + PATH
export, $VAR expansion, PATH lookup, .profile sourcing
U11
Framebuffer console
Limine framebuffer, VGA font rendering, VT100 escape codes, 16-color ANSI
U12
PS/2 keyboard
IRQ 1 scancode handling, Set 1 translation, shift/ctrl/caps tracking
U13
tmpfs
In-memory writable /tmp, create/write/unlink/truncate
U14
ext2 write support
Persistent block/inode allocation, create/delete files, sync syscall
U15
Multi-user + login
uid/gid, /etc/passwd, permission checks, zlogin
U16
Shell scripting
if/then/fi, for/do/done, while, test/[], $?, ||, $ () substitution, shebang
U17
Zig compiler port
Streaming demand-paged ELF, 165 MB binary, zig build-exe on Zigix
U18
SSH server (zsshd)
curve25519-sha256 key exchange, chacha20-poly1305, ed25519, password auth
U19
HTTP server (zhttpd)
Static file serving, directory listing, Content-Type detection
U20
Zero-copy networking
Shared ring architecture, zcnet syscalls, sub-microsecond packet polling
Milestone
Description
U21
Run Quantum Zig Forge programs on bare metal (timeseries_db, market_data_parser, zig-ai)
ext3 (J1-J5)
Journal replay, transaction write path, crash recovery
ext4 Phase 2 (E1-E6)
CRC32c, 256-byte inodes, 64-bit blocks, multiblock allocator, delayed allocation
ext4 Phase 3 (X1-X2)
Extent tree (B-tree), HTree indexed directories
Custom Userspace Programs
Binary
Size
Description
zinit
5 KB
Init system (PID 1), fork+exec shell, respawn
zsh
5 KB
Shell with line editing, builtins, if/for/while scripting
zlogin
6 KB
/etc/passwd authentication, uid/gid switching
zcurl
7 KB
HTTP/1.0 client with DNS resolution
zping
5 KB
ICMP ping with microsecond RTT
zgrep
5 KB
Pattern matching for pipelines
zhttpd
9 KB
HTTP server, static files, directory listing
zsshd
22 KB
SSH server (curve25519, chacha20-poly1305, ed25519)
zbench
8 KB
Network benchmark, zero-copy ring testing
zig_core_utils — 132 GNU Coreutils Replacements
High-performance Zig implementations of GNU coreutils optimized for modern hardware with parallel processing, SIMD acceleration, and zero-copy I/O.
Status
Count
Description
Full
72 (55%)
All or nearly all GNU options implemented
Partial
48 (36%)
Core functionality complete, some options missing
Basic
12 (9%)
Minimal implementation
Categories (132 utilities)
Category
Count
Utilities
File Operations
16
zcat zcp zdd zln zlink zls zmv zrm zrmdir zmkdir zmkfifo zmknod ztouch ztruncate zshred zinstall
Text Processing
19
zawk zcut zfmt zfold zgrep zhead zjoin znl zpaste zsed zsort zsplit ztac ztail ztr zuniq zwc zxargs zexpand
System Info/User
22
zarch zdate zdf zdu zenv zfree zgroups zhostid zhostname zid zlogname znproc zprintenv zps zpwd zsys ztty zuname zuptime zusers zwho zwhoami
Encoding/Hashing
11
zbase32 zbase64 zbasenc zb2sum zcksum zhashsum zmd5sum zsha1sum zsha256sum zsha512sum zsum
Path/Name Utils
8
zbasename zdirname zpathchk zreadlink zrealpath zstat ztest zexpr
Process/Permission
13
zchgrp zchmod zchown zchroot zkill znice znohup zpgrep zpkill zruncon zstdbuf zsudo ztimeout
Misc Utilities
22
zcomm zcsplit zecho zunexpand zfactor zfalse ztrue zmktemp znumfmt zod zpr zprintf zptx zseq zshuf zsleep zsync ztee ztsort zunlink zyes zsss
Extended/Custom
21
zbackup zbench zcurl zfind zgzip zjq zmore zping zregex zstty ztar ztime ztree zvdir zxz zzstd zcopy zpaste zuptime zfree zsys
Tool
GNU
Zig
Speedup
Technique
find
21.1s
2.1s
10.2x
MPMC queue + getdents64
sha256sum
0.388s
0.111s
3.5x
SIMD message schedule
du
~3s
~1s
~3x
Parallel traversal
jq
61ms
31ms
2x
Buffered I/O
tree
14ms
9ms
1.5x
Buffered I/O
Tested on Samsung 990 EVO Pro NVMe (7400 MB/s) with 17,854 files.
All binaries are placed in zig-out/bin/ at the repository root.
zig build zig_ai
zig build http_sentinel
zig build quantum_curl
zig build zig_inference
zig build financial_engine
zig build market_data_parser
zig build timeseries_db
zig build distributed_kv
zig build zig_pdf_generator
zig build zig_charts
zig build wasm_runtime
zig build zig_dns_server
zig build zig_reverse_proxy
zig build warp_gate
zig build terminal_mux
zig build guardian_shield
zig build chronos_engine
zig build zig_jail
zig build zig_port_scanner
zig build stratum_engine_claude
zig build stratum_engine_grok
zig build async_scheduler
zig build zero_copy_net
zig build memory_pool
zig build lockfree_queue
zig build duck_agent_scribe
zig build duck_cache_scribe
zig build cognitive_telemetry_kit
zig build zig_pdf_engine
zig build audio_forge
zig build zig_inference
zig build zig_websocket
zig build zig_json
zig build zig_toml
zig build zig_msgpack
zig build zig_xlsx
zig build zig_docx
zig build zig_base58
zig build zig_bloom
zig build zig_uuid
zig build zig_jwt
zig build zig_metrics
zig build zig_ratelimit
zig build zig_humanize
zig build zig_cron
zig build zig_watch
zig build zig_secret_scanner
zig build zig_lens
zig build zig_silicon
zig build zig2asm
zig build zig_hal
zig build zig_tui
zig build zig_token_service
zig build zdedupe
zig build register_forge
zig build variable_tester
zig build hydra
zig build claude_shepherd
zig build zigix_desktop
zig build zigix_monitor
zig build electrum_ffi
zig build http_sentinel_ffi
zig build simd_crypto_ffi
zig build mempool_sniffer
# WebAssembly targets
zig build zig_pdf_generator_wasm
# Individual utilities
cd programs/zig_core_utils/zfind && zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
cd programs/zig_core_utils/zgrep && zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
# ... etc for each utility
Zig: 0.16.0+ (required)
OS: Linux (required for guardian_shield, chronos_engine, zig_jail, io_uring programs), macOS/Windows (http_sentinel, most libraries)
Optional dependencies:
libbpf — guardian_shield eBPF components
libdbus-1 — chronos_engine, cognitive_telemetry_kit D-Bus integration
mbedTLS — stratum_engine_claude TLS/exchange connections
libzmq — financial_engine ZeroMQ IPC
espeak-ng — zig_inference Piper TTS phonemizer
Linux kernel 5.1+ — io_uring (zero_copy_net, stratum_engine_grok)
Linux kernel 3.17+ — seccomp (zig_jail)
Metric
Count
Programs
72
Core utilities
132
Zigix kernel milestones (M1-M16)
16
Zigix userspace milestones (U1-U20)
20
Zigix syscall handlers
97 (x86_64) + 46 (aarch64)
Zigix userspace binaries
133
Total Zig source files (zigix)
162
MIT License — See individual program LICENSE files for details.
Copyright 2025-2026 QUANTUM ENCODING LTD
Website: https://quantumencoding.io
Contact: rich@quantumencoding.io
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