Anson Cheung
Founder · AI products and agent systems | Lit Protocol team member #5, led the SDK team
Hampshire, England, United Kingdom · Contact info
About
From March to September 2026, I built many vibecoded products: ideas I turned into working software quickly with AI. Their components and lessons shaped ShappyOS, an agent orchestrator. In October 2026, I rebuilt it as Shappy: one chat-first workspace where people and AI agents work together.
I build quickly so customers can try a working product. I speak with them and use their feedback to decide what changes next. AI helps me test ideas sooner. I own the product decisions and check the design, code and release.
Before that, I was team member #5 at Lit Protocol and led the SDK team. I made the first commit of the Lit JavaScript SDK monorepo in 2022, wrote 4,429 of its 7,649 commits, and wrote the core of the v8 client for the Naga network. The SDK was the main way that developers used a network that secured $400M+ in digital assets.
I own product, design, backend, infrastructure and release. I use AI throughout: Codex (Pro plan), Claude (Max plan) and Grok (Heavy plan) every day, so I know the current frontier models first hand. I check what they make with tests, screenshots and evidence. I am open to talks with investors, partners and early teams, and to founding roles and product work.
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Shappy
What I changed at Lit Protocol
Experience
Founder · AI products and agent systems
I build AI products. Experiments and early components led to ShappyOS, and then to Shappy, a chat-first workspace for people and AI agents.
- Shappy: a chat-first workspace for people and AI agents, built since 22 October 2026. Durable chats run on celld and Pi Durable. Coding agents run Codex, Claude Code, Grok or Hermes Agent on your own machines, and with Ask access the chat asks before they act.
- ShappyOS: an operations app where Bots worked on real computers, with permissions, result checks, Projects and Releases. It started as Bots in the Cloud in August 2026, and I rebuilt it as Shappy.
- ShappyChat: an embeddable AI chat that works through an app’s own tools and asks before it acts. Self-hosted, with one backend for every app.
Skills: TypeScript · React · Bun · Electron · Effect · Convex · SQLite · Docker · Cloudflare · MCP · ACP · Codex app-server · Swift
Lead Software Engineer · Team member #5
I led the SDK team, the main way that developers used a network that secured $400M+ in digital assets.
- Led the SDK through every Lit network, from the Jalapeño alpha and Serrano testnet to the Naga V1 mainnet in January 2026.
- Wrote the core of the v8 client for Naga: parallel handshakes, AMD SEV-SNP attestation checks, two-thirds consensus, encryption to each node and recovery from node churn.
- Started the SDK monorepo in August 2022 and wrote 86% of its commits that year, including session keys.
4,429 of 7,649 SDK commits · 2,240 of 2,992 npm releases of 8 core packages · commits in 54 Lit repositories
Skills: TypeScript · Rust · WebAssembly · Threshold cryptography · WebAuthn · OAuth · viem · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Nx
Full Stack Engineer
Client products for a creative consultancy. The dates overlap with Lit because I continued handover support.
- The Mercers’ Company: kept the Drupal website safe through upgrades: the Drupal 8 to 9 path, PHP and database upgrades, an IP allow-list and reCAPTCHA.
- Pollen8: a Flutter app for an office building in Mayfair, with a gyroscope viewer and a map with markers, and a Vue widget that opens the landlord’s fit-out tool from the website.
Skills: Drupal · PHP · Flutter · Dart · Vue
Full Stack Developer
Energy management software for facilities teams.
Skills: Vue · Express · GraphQL · Charts
Early ventures
eBay and Amazon arbitrage
Listed products on eBay with one-day delivery, and fulfilled each order through Amazon Prime. It reached £10K a month in revenue.
Diablo III auction house trading
Traded in-game gold in the Diablo III auction house, with AutoHotkey scripts that ran on several virtual machines. It reached £10K a month in revenue.
Projects
Shappy
Work with AI agents in one durable chat. Coding agents run on your own machines, within limits that you set.
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ShappyChat
An AI chat for any app. It works through the app’s own tools and asks before it acts.
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Dromio Workflow SDK
Durable workflows as typed documents: each step is checked and saved.
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YapHaus
Managed Buzz relay hosting for private communities. It has users, and I run all of it.
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Bukkumaku
A private library for links, notes and files, growing into company information for people and agents.
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Shimex
Use other models inside an existing Codex harness, through an OpenAI-compatible shim.
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Hermesaki
Email on your own server, with a browser inbox for you and separate inboxes for your agents.
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Lancaster University
Skills
Interests
- Muay Thai. I led the university Muay Thai team as its president. Up for a little spar?
- Played Dota at school, then reached the top 5% in Heroes of Newerth (1850 MMR), a multiplayer online battle arena game like Dota.
- Stealth camping across the UK.
- All kinds of racket sports.