USE CASES
Swamp fits wherever you point it. Every entry below is a real extension or write-up, by the operative who built it.
"We'd built an automation primitive, and infrastructure was just where we'd pointed it."
— stack72, Infrastructure Was Just the First Use Case
Cloud & infra ops
Building the Machine — webframp
A nine-extension AWS ops toolkit — judgment the agent lacks, encoded into operations.
Drift Detection. No New Calls Required. — webframp
Zero API calls. Still found the security group rule you added.
@webframp/cloudflare — webframp
Cloudflare zones, DNS, WAF, Workers, and CDN as observed, versioned models.
@stateless/proxmox — stateless
Transport-neutral Proxmox VE lifecycle — QEMU VMs and LXC containers.
Shipping software & SDLC
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Changelog & Friends #130) — adam
900 deploys in four weeks. Five people, zero lines written by hand.
The Rearchitecture Your Team Could Never Justify — stack72
Six parallel agent workstreams shipped a full rearchitecture in eight days.
HiveMQ's production agent-driven SDLC: plan, validate, implement, review — as models.
Issue triage to plan to implementation, run as a state machine.
AI code review & verification
@atalanta/external-reviewer — atalanta
Independent adversarial review bolted onto a software factory — a second pair of eyes that never gets tired.
@atalanta/ts-review-lenses — atalanta
Adversarial TypeScript review lenses distilled from real escapes (Go, SDLC, and prose siblings too).
Propose, review, activate — agent facts gated by ferret/mole adversarial validation.
@webframp/gitlab-review — webframp
AI-assisted MR review with a human approval gate.
SRE, on-call & observability
AI Doesn't Replace On-Call Judgment — sntxrr
Built and run against real incidents, not a hot take.
SREs Don't Need Replacing, They Need Pairing — stack72
Alert → metrics → logs → theory → fix is a workflow. Agents execute it; the shape of the work changes.
Incident investigation and a daily infrastructure pulse over AWS.
Reliability and validation confidence scoring — falsification detection and readiness.
FinOps — cloud cost & AI spend
@webframp/aws/cost-explorer — webframp
Actual AWS spend, broken out by service, usage type, and time.
Unified token spend across Bedrock, Vertex, and Azure OpenAI.
@jentz/aws-rds-reservations — jentz
Running-vs-reserved RDS coverage — the reserved-instance gap, in dollars.
Secrets & PKI
@evrardjp/openbao-configurator — evrardjp
OpenBao HCL render plus the full init, unseal, and seal lifecycle.
@webframp/hashicorp-vault — webframp
HashiCorp Vault KV v1 and v2 over REST.
SOPS and age local encrypted secrets, as a swamp vault.
Agent infrastructure & sandboxing
Drive claude, opencode, amp, gemini, codex, or grok with typed I/O and cost capture.
@magistr/firecracker — magistr
Firecracker microVM lifecycle — isolated cages for agents to run in.
Run Claude Code inside an Apple `container` sandbox.
Reproducible data science
@vcjdeboer/session-execute — vcjdeboer
A headless runtime that deterministically runs — or replays — R, Python, and targets in pinned nix/docker envs.
written up → Press Play
@vcjdeboer/session-record — vcjdeboer
A language-agnostic provenance ledger — one immutable record per executed cell.
@vcjdeboer/session-witness — vcjdeboer
A tamper-evident sha256 seal chaining a run's checksums and its authorship.
Self-hosted platform & de-clouding
S3-compatible object storage, self-hosted and administered as models.
Your own mail server, managed by Swamp.
A self-hosted git forge, lifecycle and all.
Network & edge devices
UniFi UDM traffic and network state.
@dougschaefer/cisco-ios-switch — dougschaefer
Cisco IOS switch management.
@keeb/mikrotik-routeros — keeb
MikroTik RouterOS configuration and telemetry.
Identity & IAM
FreeIPA identity — users, hosts, groups, DNS, certs, and policy.
@mccormick/trust-network — mccormick
OIDC workload-identity federation across GitHub, GCP, and Cloudflare.
Enterprise AV & meeting rooms
@dougschaefer/cisco-collaboration-endpoints — dougschaefer
Cisco RoomOS endpoints — the meeting room as managed infrastructure.
written up → WhiteGlove AV: the room that knows who walked in
AI-native content & creative
@alvagante/content-ixen — alvagante
Self-narrated mixed-media web pages — the whole 'ixen' pipeline.
written up → Building Abnormalia with Swamp, Part 1: What Is an Ixen?
A JSCAD CAD renderer to STL, DXF, SVG, OBJ, and 3MF.
written up → Building a CAD Pipeline with JSCAD, Swamp, and Claude
Homelab, home automation & media
@magistr/homeassistant — magistr
Home Assistant entities, services, and automations under agent control.
TrueNAS pools, datasets, and shares as models.
Radarr, Seerr, Tautulli, and Plex through a keep-score engine.
written up → Curating my media library with swamp
Agents Make Homelab Alerts Boring — mgreten
A disk-full alert becomes a rate-aware notification with projected time-to-full.
An Offline Meeting Transcriber Built on Swamp — mgreten
Whisper, pyannote, and a local model. Nothing leaves the laptop.
Killing n8n: Migrating 11 Automation Flows to Swamp in One Day — lint
Named workflows, concrete grievances, one day.
Data engineering
@mfbaig35r/databricks — mfbaig35r
Databricks jobs, clusters, and SQL as models.
written up → What Four Hours of Focused Human-AI Engineering Actually Ships
The stuff nobody would put in a deck
The shape of the decision — magistr
An expat mortgage, modeled — 30% ruling, ESPP, kosten koper.
A feed to think with — magistr
A noisy apartment feed turned high-signal: dossiers, public-data enrichment, requirements as filters.
@jamesakeech/hardcover — jamesakeech
Your reading, tracked from Hardcover.
Every extension above is public in the registry — open one and read the source. More lands on the feed — judged by the Gator, so it stays real.