WORKSHOP
The OpenRuntime for Coding Agents: Discover, Attribute, and Route Across Any Harness and Provider (WS08)
Date: 08 October 2026 | Time: 11:30-02:00 PM
Venue: Workshop Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore
FEES:
• Rs.99 for Leaders Pass holders
• Rs.669 for Professionals Pass holders
• Rs.749 for Knowledge Pass holders
• Rs.899 for Community++ or Student Pass holders
• Rs.999 for all others
(Limited seats available)
Get hands-on visibility into the coding agents you already use. In this two to three-hour workshop, you’ll use Nasiko, an open-source project written in Rust, to discover coding agents on your laptop, inspect usage and cost attribution across models and sessions, and configure routing across supported model providers.
You’ll explore how discovery and routing work, what changes when routing is enabled, and how local visibility can extend to a shared team inventory. You’ll leave with a working local setup and a clear starting point for contributing to the project.
Karan Bharadwaj
Co-founder and Head of Product, Nasiko
Neeraj Penumaka
Backend Engineer, Nasiko | MTech in Data Science | BTech in Mechanical Engineering
- Developers who use one or more Agents or AI coding agents/harnesses (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, etc.) and want to measure what they cost
- Platform/infra engineers responsible for AI tooling spend or governance across a team or org
- Open-source contributors interested in working on a Rust codebase
- No prior Rust experience required to attend the discovery/cost-tracking portion; basic Rust familiarity helps for the contributor deep-dive
- Anyone who's ever asked, "wait, how much is this agent actually costing me?"
- The problem: AI coding agents running against production code with production credentials, never inventoried, spend nobody attributes
- What "OpenRuntime" means: harness freedom, model freedom, built in the open, and why non-invasive/non-intrusive are two different promises
- Live demo: one command to discover every coding agent already running on your machine
- One-click discovery and what happens next: no account, no purchase, nothing migrates
- Cost attribution across vendors in a single schema by model, agent, session, developer, and team
- Routing to a different/cheaper model at the boundary: opt-out-able, fail-open, and why a routing failure can never break your agent
- From local to org: how the same command scales from an individual to a shared inventory (the "crossing")
- Peek under the hood: the Rust codebase, architecture, and how discovery + call-path enforcement work together
- How to contribute: open issues, the WeMakeDevs program, and where to start
- Q&A and hands-on troubleshooting
Benefits/Takeaways of this workshop for the attendees (What will attendees do after attending the workshop which they were not able to do before attending this)
- After this workshop, attendees will be able to:
- See, for the first time, a full inventory and observability of every coding agent running on their machine and exactly what each one costs; something most of them have never had visibility into
- Compare spend across different harnesses and models in one place, instead of piecing it together from separate vendor bills that don’t reconcile
- Route their own coding agent to a cheaper or better-fit model without touching their existing workflow, tools, or code
- Explain the difference between a tool that can see agent activity and one that can enforce against it, and why that distinction matters when picking AI infra
- Walk away with a working local Nasiko setup, not just slides
- Know exactly how to make their first contribution to an open-source, Rust-based project, including specific open issues to pick up
A laptop (8GB+ RAM recommended) with Linux, macOS, or Windows-with-WSL2, and Docker installed (setup instructions shared before the session). Basic familiarity with digital logic (gates, flip-flops, RTL/Verilog) and comfort using a command-line terminal and Git. No proprietary EDA licences and no prior tapeout experience needed – all tools and PDKs used are free and open source. Optionally, clone github.com/rajaghv-dev/open-silicon-lab in advance to follow along.
About Speakers
Karan is a Co-founder & Head of Product, Nasiko| Building intelligent infrastructure for the next era of AI agents | Technical advisor @Project Nanda | Technical Advisor @Open Growth