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What I study.

Theses, research projects and self-published write-ups, from ceramic propulsion to the systems I run.

write-ups
paper · July 2026Luis Dehlwes · Dehlwes Labs

Messages Become Intents

A Capability-Governed, Injection-Resistant Messenger Where Humans Are Unreachable

Personal AI agents are starting to act for people, yet the channels they use to reach each other were built either for humans or for tools, and neither treats a human as a governed endpoint reachable only through an agent. HAAH is a runnable messenger in which no human is directly addressable: every person is fronted by a personal agent, and communication is intent, negotiation, delivery rather than message to message. Agents exchange typed intents, not free prompts, and the policy engine sees a view with no freetext field, so hostile text cannot change a decision, an injection-invariance measured over the unmodified code across 1,728 hostile trials with zero decision changes.

no addressable humanstyped intents, not prompts1,728 trials, 0 changesDouble Ratchet E2E~8,600 lines, 140 tests
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paper · June 2026Luis Dehlwes · Legacy AI Labs

Governing the Tools, Not the Agent

A Capability-Governed Deployment Platform for AI-Assisted Operations

Self-hosting a small fleet forces an awkward choice: full orchestrators impose complexity out of proportion to a one-person estate, while lightweight PaaS tools were never designed for a second, non-human operator. Nexus is built on a single thesis, expose every operation, to humans and AI agents alike, through one audited surface of capabilities, each tagged with a risk class, so an agent may observe and propose freely, yet can never unilaterally perform an irreversible action without a human-issued, per-resource grant.

46 capabilities3-machine fleetrisk-classed governanceMCP-nativezero-downtime deploys
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paper · May 2026Luis Dehlwes · Dehlwes Labs

Facts Before Phrasing

A Fact-Grounded, Version-Attributed Pipeline for AI-Assisted Job Applications

Tailoring a CV and cover letter to every position is expected, yet the common workflow forks a fresh copy per application, so facts drift and no copy stays authoritative. Dossier is built on a single thesis: career facts live once, in a database, and every document is a disposable projection of it, phrasings stored apart from facts as versioned, attributed texts. An LLM collaborates through schema-validated MCP tools; it can rephrase and propose, but never invent a fact. In a blinded pilot, a context-free LLM fabricated 78% of its biographical claims; generation from the fact base eliminated fabrication entirely.

facts before phrasing78% → 0% fabricationversioned & attributedMCP-nativeblind-evaluated
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research projects & theses
  • research2026–now

    Master's Thesis

    Ongoing master's thesis at the DLR Institute of Propulsion Technology on the conceptual design of radial turbomachinery, developing scalable parametric models for radial compressor and turbine stages that integrate into existing engine preliminary-design tools for helicopter engines.

  • research2026

    Governing the Tools, Not the Agent

    Self-published paper on Nexus, my self-hostable deployment platform. Its thesis: expose every operation, to humans and AI agents alike, through one audited surface of capabilities, each tagged with a risk class, so an agent can observe and propose freely but never unilaterally perform an irreversible action without a human-issued, per-resource grant. The paper covers the capability model, the platform architecture and the zero-downtime deploy pipeline, validated on the three-machine fleet that runs this site.

    AI AgentsDeploymentCapability GovernanceMCPSelf-Hosting
  • research2026

    Facts Before Phrasing

    Self-published paper on Dossier, my self-hosted pipeline for AI-assisted job applications. Its thesis: career facts live once in a relational database, and every CV and cover letter is a disposable projection of it. Phrasings are stored apart from facts as versioned, bilingual, author-attributed texts, and an LLM collaborates through schema-validated MCP tools that let it rephrase, translate and propose, but never invent a fact. The paper covers the two-axis model, the architecture and the render pipeline, with a blind evaluation of the generated letters.

    Job ApplicationsLLMMCPFact-GroundingVersion Attribution
  • research2025–2026

    Research Project

    Research project on the development of an additively manufactured ceramic thruster for water-based satellite propulsion. The work focused on a reliable digital and experimental development route from material and process preparation through DLP printing and thermal post-processing to characterization. In parallel, resincreator.de was built as a digital lab and process documentation system to structure material, manufacturing and test data and prepare them for future ML/AI-based recommendation systems.

  • research2023–2024

    Bachelor's Thesis

    Bachelor's thesis in lightweight systems with research-related work on an engineering research topic. Focus on resin transfer molding (RTM) for carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP), structured analysis, technical documentation, and evaluation of demolding stresses in aerospace-related RTM processes.