Affaan Mustafa

I turned side questing into a modern prestige profession.
All it took was being cynical about everything except myself, then post-training my own policy to maximize expected return (serendipitous events (luck surface area)) by improving it until probability mass collapsed onto high-value action sequences, with mixed rollouts reserved for exploration.
That led me to attempt zero-employee companies as a way to build my way out of the permanent underclass, one day at a time.
If I had to give one piece of advice on carving your own path, and I mean truly your own, it’s this: protect your cogsec. The pendulum swings. The mind decays. They will tug at it, prompt-inject the latest psyop, and try to steer your internal model for you. Don’t let them.
Hold the line long enough and you win.

affaanmustafa.com →

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Now

Creator of ECC — 212K+ stars. The most popular open agent-harness ecosystem. Now also a hosted GitHub App with private-repo support, paid tier from $19/mo. ecc.tools · sponsor

Creator of AgentShield — AI agent config scanner. 638 stars, 1,609 tests, v1.4.0. Featured at Cerebral Valley × Anthropic.

Co-founder @ Itô — Structured prediction-market baskets for liquid funds and family offices. Distribution and partnership inbound: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).

Available for consulting — ECC enterprise rollout, agent-harness performance, security review. ecc.tools/pricing · DM @affaan.

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Writing

Author of the Claude Code guides and the agentic security guide — 5M+ views combined, 25M+ impressions across socials.

Shorthand Guide9.8K likes · 1.2k reposts · 4.1M views
Longform Guide1.2K likes · 241 reposts · 459K views
Security Guide201 likes · 30 reposts · 54k views

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Open Source

ECC
The Agent Harness resource · ecc.tools





agentshield
AI agent security scanner · GitHub Marketplace







JARVIS
Real-time OSINT via autonomous web scraping + Meta Ray-Ban glasses





claude-swarm
Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code · standalone tool







stoictradingAI
First autonomous trading agent on Solana · 70k peak live viewers





HyperMamba
Hypernetworks + meta-learning for trading · SSRN paper

Research / code: research, econ-research-wi24, econ-research-ss24, quranic-arabic-recognition-dl, supply-chain-ml-optimization, market-manipulation-microcap-crypto
Papers / mentions: HyperMamba SSRN paper, ResearchGate

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Highlights

| Highlight | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ex-PMX Founding Engineer | Built pmx.trade to $250k+ MRR and 6-figure MAU |
| Open-Source Distribution | Built everything-claude-code (ecc.tools) and contributed to elizaOS/eliza + 0xPlaygrounds/rig |
| Autonomous Trading Systems | Built various agentic yield + trading platforms (@stoictradingai on X / repo / AYO-era) with $40M+ combined peak FDV; 70k peak live viewers building in public |
| Anthropic Hackathon Winner | Zenith Chat — 1st / 100+ people, $15k credits |
| Research / Academia | 3-degree path across UCSD (graduated with 2 B.S. before I was 20 + UW (dropped out) (B.S. Math-CS, B.S. Business Economics (M.S. into P.h.D track (dropped out) - Applied/Computational Math ): UCSD Econ Research Lab, UW AMATH, UCSD URC mention |
| Research Output | HyperMamba (SSRN), microcap sentiment/manipulation work (ResearchGate), and code in research / HyperMamba / Behavioral_RL / econ-research-wi24 / econ-research-ss24 / quranic-arabic-recognition-dl / supply-chain-ml-optimization / market-manipulation-microcap-crypto |
| $150k+ Bootstrapped | Founded DCUBE at 18 (UCSD Basement portfolio), self-funded tuition |

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