Hi, I'm Manan 👋

🤖 Shipping products with AI agents: Kryton Labs · 🏗️ Write about my tech: Blog · 🛡️ Work in Cybersecurity

Homelab tinkerer running an iMessage-first autonomous butler (Spratt) on OpenClaw, building a cybersecurity product company on the side, and writing about all of it at beingmanan.com.

Start Here

• 🤖 spratt-skills — Custom OpenClaw skills powering my family's autonomous butler
• 💸 cheap-openclaw — 14 production-tested techniques to cut OpenClaw agent costs by 10x
• 🛜 npm-mobile ⭐ 76 — Nginx Proxy Manager on your phone (Flutter, iOS + Android)

Upstream Contributions

Real fixes shipped upstream — bug hunting, root-cause analysis, and PRs against the tools I rely on every day.

OpenClaw

• 🔧 issue #82904 → merged fix #82986 — Managed Chrome CDP launch was throwing self-contradicting failures on cold-start: isChromeReachable (HTTP-only probe) and diagnoseChromeCdp (full WebSocket + Browser.getVersion) disagreed about readiness. Reported with a 5-incident history, root cause traced through the built JS, and a proposed fix that shipped on main.
• 🔧 issue #77155 → merged fix #77573 — doctor --fix was wiping externalized plugins during the v2026.5.2 migration.

printing-press-library (CLI skills for agents)

• 🌍 Wanderlust skill — merged PR #504: broadened pp-wanderlust-goat triggers so LLM routers invoke the CLI for city-wide place queries ("best coffee in Redmond"), not just "near me"-anchored ones.
• 🛒 Instacart CLI skill — issue #501 → fix #539 and issue #546 → fix #563: location bugs that broke the Instacart plugin.
• ☁️ Weather Goat skill — issue #502 → fix #541: weather-goat-pp-cli geocoding was routing /search to api.open-meteo.com (404) instead of Open-Meteo's dedicated geocoding-api.open-meteo.com host.

feedparser

• 🪲 issue #562 · PoC — Denial-of-service vulnerability in feedparser ≤ 6.0.11: a crafted RSS/Atom author field triggers catastrophic regex backtracking in _sync_author_detail() and hangs the parser (ReDoS / CWE-1333). CVE assignment in progress.

GitHub Projects

OpenClaw & Agent Tooling

• 🤖 spratt-skills — Custom skills for Spratt, my OpenClaw-powered family butler
• 💸 cheap-openclaw — 14 production-tested techniques to cut OpenClaw spend by 10x
• 🛠️ claude-setup — My Claude Code config for running 20+ projects with zero friction

Web Tools & Utilities

• 🖼️ OpenGraph Resizer — Self-hostable OpenGraph image resizer, favicon generator, and MCP-enabled URL analyzer
• 📈 Child Growth Chart — Web app for tracking kids' growth against health standards

Apps

• 🛜 npm-mobile ⭐ 76 — Nginx Proxy Manager on your phone (Flutter, iOS + Android)
• 📱 cyberprismapp — Mobile companion for CyberPrism (iOS + Android)
• 🥦 snack-spinner — Site for Snack Spinner: Kids Food Game, my toddler healthy-eating app

Homelab & Smart Home

• 🏠 gethomepage ⭐ 17 — Custom landing page for the homepage project
• 🛎️ HA-announcements — Welcome-home announcements via Home Assistant, Aqara, Siri, and iPhone
• 📊 proxmox-glances — Installing Glances on Proxmox without breaking everything
• 🚀 nodejsdeploy — Tiny stop / deploy / start script for PM2 apps
• 🔌 WindowsNAR ⭐ 4 — Network adapter reset app for Windows

Products at Kryton Labs

Not on GitHub — closed-source products I build and ship at krytonlabs.com.

• 🛡️ CyberPrism — Mobile-first cybersecurity threat-intel platform
• 🧩 ArtFall — iOS puzzle game where stacking pieces reveals classic artworks
• 🤝 Team Exercises — AI-driven web platform for team-building activities
• 🍎 DarwinMQTT — macOS ↔ Home Assistant bridge over MQTT, privacy-first
• 📺 Tech Reviews Hub — Gadget reviews aggregated from YouTube creators

Connect

• 🌐 Blog — beingmanan.com
• 🏢 Company — krytonlabs.com
• 🐦 X / Twitter — @manan
• 💼 LinkedIn — in/manankakkar