J.C. Overturf

Protocol Designer · Library Assistant

A library assistant in Roanoke, Virginia. Twelve careers behind me, from the Navy to long-haul trucking. I design infrastructure for human-AI partnership on nights, weekends, and shift breaks. Apache 2.0, no investors, built to be inherited cleanly.

Experience

Independent Builder · Scuttle Labs
2024 – Present
  • Designed SLOBSTAH, a 44,000-word governance protocol for human-AI partnership. Apache 2.0, ten named components.
  • Shipped Hatchery (Python reference runtime) and Cloudflare Substrate (template) — policy enforcement between agents and tool calls.
  • Built Wayfinder Agent (ADA-track AI accommodation tool). Drafted the Digital Accommodation Standard. Wrote 34 essays at TheLifeNeurotic; book in progress (The Hidden Engine).
Library Assistant · Public Library
2024 – Present
  • Reference, circulation, and patron support. Part-time, by design — the day job that funds the protocol work on shift breaks and after hours.
Trades · Diesel Mechanic + Long-Haul Trucker
2000s – Early 2020s
  • Multi-year OTR (income peak ~$70k/yr). Diesel engine and powertrain work. Field education in how infrastructure actually transfers load.
Federal Security Work · Overseas Protective Detail
Late 1990s – 2000s
  • Protective and operational work in adversarial environments. Threat modeling and quiet-professional habits that carry directly into security-by-design protocol work.
United States Navy · USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), P-1 Division
1993 – 1997
  • Aircraft carrier service. Damage-control instincts and the systems-on-systems mental model that show up everywhere I work.

Projects

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SLOBSTAH Protocol
Governance framework for human-AI partnership.
Apache 2.0 · 44k words · 10 components
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Hatchery
Python reference runtime. Policy enforcement between agents and tool calls.
Python · Cloudflare Workers · D1
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Wayfinder Agent
Digital service dog. ADA-track accommodation AI.
Python · Anthropic SDK · MCP
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The Hidden Engine
Book in progress on neurotype cooperation.
neurocooperation.com
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TheLifeNeurotic
Essays on late-identified autism and brain-injury recovery.
34 essays · Cloudflare Pages
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Scuttle Labs
Independent research lab housing the protocol.
scuttlelabs.com