Rick Wen / Webric

AI systems engineering

Agent orchestration, workflow automation, operator tooling. Shipping systems that handle real daily work.

Based in Taiwan · Working in English and Chinese

Active Projects

What I'm building now

code-viewer

MVP complete

Desktop VS Code stays the source of truth — LSP, Git, Copilot all stream through one relay to any browser. Cache-first so it works offline. CodeTour recordings happen live over WebSocket.

notebooklm-controller

MVP in daily use

Puppeteer hangs on background tabs — dropped it for raw CDP. One Chrome, multiple tabs, all automated without focus. Any AI tool (Claude Code, Copilot) can drive NotebookLM through the MCP interface. Feeds repos, URLs, and PDFs as chunked sources.

ChatPilot

Production gateway

Routes multiple operators to specialized chatbots by weighted scoring. Same interaction triggers sync reply + background task — results push back when done. Built-in silent analytics on group conversations.

Developer Tooling

Tools I built because nothing else worked

Code browsing that survived mobile, NotebookLM automation via CDP + MCP, and an agent gateway redesigned from a failed v1.

Developer Tooling

code-viewer

MVP complete

Tried code-server for mobile code browsing — broke. Redesigned as a 3-layer system: VS Code Extension streams workspace data over WebSocket to a React frontend with IndexedDB cache-first and live CodeTour recording.

Desktop VS Code stays the source of truth — LSP, Git, Copilot all stream through one relay to any browser. Cache-first so it works offline. CodeTour recordings happen live over WebSocket.

Browser Automation + MCP

notebooklm-controller

MVP in daily use

NotebookLM has no API — so I built one. Always-on daemon that automates NotebookLM through low-level CDP and exposes an MCP interface. 95% deterministic scripts, LLM only for failure recovery.

Puppeteer hangs on background tabs — dropped it for raw CDP. One Chrome, multiple tabs, all automated without focus. Any AI tool (Claude Code, Copilot) can drive NotebookLM through the MCP interface. Feeds repos, URLs, and PDFs as chunked sources.

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Agent Gateway

ChatPilot

Production gateway

Multi-platform agent gateway — v1 failed, rebuilt the full architecture in one sitting. Hub + router + pipeline design that made observer mode, dual-mode dispatch, and 25 tools a natural extension.

Routes multiple operators to specialized chatbots by weighted scoring. Same interaction triggers sync reply + background task — results push back when done. Built-in silent analytics on group conversations.

Production Systems

Automation already running in daily ops

Social publishing, media pipelines, warehouse ops — agent orchestration with human-in-the-loop review and platform API integrations.

Writing

Technical writing

MCP internals, agent architecture, workflow design decisions.

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