Palantir Foundry context and operator intent become a CASK deployment order with leases for each edge node.
Live DDIL edge demo / Foundry + CASK + local mesh
DarkMesh
Altiair deploys a decentralized sensor mesh, fuses weak field evidence into one human-reviewed cue, survives node loss, and syncs the mission record back to Foundry.
Scenario
Find the useful cue without depending on one command node.
A drone-class event appears in a contested training area. One node has RFID and Wi-Fi proximity context, one has Hawkeye/vision, one has microphone context, and Foundry provides governed mission intelligence. DarkMesh turns those fragments into a policy-gated controller-zone cue for human review.
Camera, microphone, RFID/provider-style proximity, and node health arrive as compact typed records instead of raw stream dependency.
If the active coordinator drops, the replicated ledger and gossip state let a surviving node keep the mission picture alive.
When a gateway is available, the evidence, decisions, policy gates, and coordinator terms reconcile back to Foundry.
Live mission pass
Mission directive to edge coordination.
Detecting source
Waiting for CASK state
Friendly Node
Degraded Node
Mesh Link
Camera FOV
RF Bearing
Fused Detection
Objective Area
Track Trail
Cue chain
Your next action
-Evidence summary
-Live at the bench
Running right now on a Jetson Nano, three Raspberry Pis, and an iPad chest computer.
A five-node fleet on the team bench, plugged in and running right now: Jetson Orin Nano altiair-orin, Pi 5 altiair-hub, two Pi 4B sensor peers, and an iPad chest harness mirroring the operator console. Same Altiair-LAN, same node API, same Gemma 4 e2b on-device inference. The dropout demo is triggered over SSH — judges never watch us unplug a Pi. The mesh stays powered through the whole pitch.
- altiair-orin Jetson Orin Nano · LAN host · accelerated inference · gateway
- altiair-hub Pi 5 · operator display + USB camera · primary gateway
- altiair-node-a / -b Pi 4B · sensors · RFID · replicated ledger
- iPad chest harness Mirrors the operator console · wearable EagleEye readout
- Local Wi-Fi mesh No cloud, no internet path
- gemma4:e2b Ollama-served on-device
- Survivable Replicated ledger + Raft-style coordinator
Working code path
The website walks through the running system.
The page reads the same node API that the Pi and Jetson nodes expose. During the live pass it shows each code path, endpoint poll, ledger update, coordinator term, local model result, node-dropout state, and Foundry writeback boundary as the mission advances.
execution feed
DarkMesh runtime
System architecture
Robust, safe, secure edge coordination.
Foundry and CASK shape the mission data. DarkMesh keeps the local runtime useful when the uplink or one node fails, while policy gates, signed records, encrypted payloads, and memory-safe durable components keep the demo on a production path.
Command / Foundry
Operator website
Palantir Foundry / OSDK
CASK ontology
Edge runtime
Node API
Replicated ledger
Elected coordinator
Sensors / models
RFID + Wi-Fi proximity
Hawkeye / camera
Microphone context
Local Gemma/Ollama insight
Safety / security
Policy gate
AES-256-GCM envelopes
Ed25519 signed records
Rust durable agent
Foundry sync queued until gateway is available
Human-reviewed cue, source citations, node-health state, coordinator term, and after-action record.
Team
Built by Altiair.
Four engineers, twenty-four hours, one DDIL mission stack.
Sarah Hatcher
@valencealignment
Benjamin Shyong
@benikigai
Rob Grossman
@digitalnomd
Katherine Lambert
@StellarLuminosity
Source · github.com/digitalnomd/altiair · Site · github.com/benikigai/darkmesh