The idea
In linear algebra, eigen names what a transformation can’t turn
Apply a matrix to a vector and it usually ends up pointing somewhere new. An eigenvector is one of the exceptions. The matrix can make it longer or shorter, and it stays on the same line. The number that says how much longer is its eigenvalue, written with a lambda.
Coding agents are transformations too. They take a repository and return a different one, many times an hour. We wanted a tool that keeps the things that should survive that: which branch, whose request, what reason.
The word eigen is German for "own", which also fits an app that gives each thread its own folder, its own port and its own browser.

A long exposure: every star moves and the axis does not
Before the matrix
In motion
Red arrows keep their heading
These arrows start on a circle and a real matrix acts on them. Its eigenvalues are 2.5 and 0.5, so one red pair grows and the other shrinks, and neither leaves its line.
The mark
How the logo is drawn
The logo is three bars with lengths in the ratio 38, 24 and 38. All three share one slope, and their left ends fall on one straight line. That slope is 0.325 across for every 1 up, and every arrow and slanted edge on this site uses it.
Built on
Open source underneath
Eizen began as a Tauri port of an open-source project by Nazmus Sayad, released under the MIT license, and it keeps that project's approach of using the same sessions as the CLIs.
The site's type is Newsreader, Schibsted Grotesk and JetBrains Mono.
Credits
Photographs and footage
The sky on this site is real. Everything below is used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
| Work | Credit | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Star trails above the Blanco telescope (video) | CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Munizaga | Source |
| Starry sky above the Visitor Center telescope (video) | KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks | Source |
| Milky Way and Moon over SOAR (video) | NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek | Source |
| Lights of the Night Show | International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard | Source |
| Star Trails Above Gemini North | International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Matsopoulos | Source |
| Stars Swirl above Gemini North | NOIRLab/NSF/AURA | Source |
| Trails Through the Night Sky | KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA | Source |
| Trails Near and Far | CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. Munizaga | Source |
| Rubin Observatory Under the Milky Way | Hernán Stockebrand | Source |
| Milky Way Reflections | RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/DOE/NSF/AURA/B. Quint | Source |
| Milky Way Shines over Snowy La Silla | ESO/José Francisco Salgado | Source |
Colour on the Blanco and SOAR footage has been adjusted, and clips are trimmed and shortened. CC BY 4.0










