TigNex

Independent open-source engineering organization

Infrastructure built to be taken apart.

Tignex builds open-source tools, infrastructure, and standards for developers who value control, interoperability, and solid engineering.

The organization

Tignex is not a product company. It is the engineering organization and publisher behind a growing set of independent open-source projects — each with its own name, identity and home.

Not tied to one stackNo single language, framework or vendor defines what we build.
Independent by designProjects keep their own identity and domain. Tignex is the engineering home, not the brand on the box.
Open to depend onSource, specification and reasoning are public — including the parts that are still unfinished.

Projects

Every project keeps its own name, identity and home.
01Developer tool · CLI

CommitBrief

A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a commit range or a whole GitHub pull request — before your colleagues do.

Visit CommitBriefOwn site · own repository
TWO CHANGESWORTH READING
02Standard · SDK ecosystem

BabelQueue

A high-performance, agnostic queue standard that lets Laravel, Go, Python, Java, .NET and Node.js speak one strict JSON schema.

Visit BabelQueueOwn site · own repository
BABELQUEUE
03Infrastructure · Self-hosted

QueryProxy

A self-hosted database access control and query approval system — developers submit SQL, a DBA approves it, and results come back masked and audited.

Visit QueryProxyOwn site · own repository
DEVELOPERQUERYPROXYAST GUARDDBA APPROVALASYNC RUNMASK · AUDITRESULTS, MASKED AND AUDITED

How we engineer

Control stays with you

Self-host it, fork it, read every line. Nothing we publish depends on a service we operate.

Interoperable by design

Open formats and documented protocols before convenient private ones — even when it costs us a shortcut.

Production-oriented

Written for systems that are already running, under load, with real data in them.

Transparent by default

Decisions, trade-offs and limits are written down in public, where they can be argued with.

Engineering notesDecisions, trade-offs and post-mortems from inside the projects.
Read the notes

Everything we build is in the open, from the first commit.

Arrow keys to move, Enter to open.