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Connectome OS

Rust LIF runtime and debugging interface for stimulating, cutting, and measuring FlyWire-derived graph activity. Alpha research preview.

FlyWireResearch prototype
Fidelity · reviewed
L1 Dynamics

Neurons are simulated — leaky integrate-and-fire or better — with documented, tuned parameters.

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Rating note

The ruvnet/Connectome-OS repository itself holds only a README and two screenshots; the README points at the actual implementation, which lives in ruvnet/RuVector on branch research/connectome-ruvector under examples/connectome-fly. Read there, it is a genuine conductance-based LIF runtime with documented per-neuron biophysics (tau_m, v_rest, v_reset, v_thresh, r_m, tau_refrac, excitatory/inhibitory reversal potentials and separate synaptic decay constants), event-driven over FlyWire Princeton CSV graph data, so voltages evolve under a documented neuron model: L1. Not L2: the crate exposes no plasticity module (lib.rs declares analysis, audit, connectome, embodiment, lesion, lif, observer, stimulus) and the spike-emission path only reads s.weight. The single place a synaptic weight changes is Connectome::with_synapse_weights_zeroed, which builds a perturbed copy for an experimenter-nominated lesion before re-running the stimulus - a cut made by the user, not a biological rule running during the episode. RuVector's monorepo does contain STDP code, but in unrelated crates that connectome-fly does not depend on.

Record

CategoryBrain models & bodies
DatasetsFlyWire
LevelL1 — reviewed
Listed incobanov/awesome-fly
First indexed2026-09-15

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