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Talos & the TIP Portal

The proposal interface I built for talos.is

I built the TIP Portal: an LLM-assisted path from a proposal draft to a GitHub pull request.

Open Talos ↗
The live Talos treasury dashboard
Live Talos system · product context for the contribution below
01 · Contribution
TIP Portal
02 · Flow
LLM draft → GitHub PR
03 · Status
Live on talos.is

What Talos is

Talos is an agentic protocol governed through Talos Improvement Proposals (TIPs). It was incubated with Offchain Labs. A council votes on proposals through X, and accepted proposals can change the live system.

What I built

Previously, submitting a TIP meant opening a pull request against the proposals repository. That worked for developers but excluded most other contributors.

I shipped a TIP Portal (now embedded on talos.is) so non-technical contributors can participate:

Create flow

  • Sign in with X OAuth for author credit.
  • Chat with a Talos-tuned LLM for structure, tone, and feasibility feedback.
  • Accept / edit / reject inline suggestions that fill the form fields.
  • Compare your draft to canonical examples.
  • Submit the form. A GitHub bot opens the pull request, and an Action records the new TIP in the database.

Feed

  • Browse Open and Implemented TIPs in-page.
  • Jump to GitHub, or ask Talos questions about any proposal.

How it fits the existing process

The portal does not replace the repository or the existing governance process. It gives contributors a simpler front end for both.

What I did

I started with smaller pull requests covering async code, documentation, caching, prompts, and developer tooling. Later I took ownership of the portal integration with the Empyreal team.