a research identity for kai aizen. adversarial ai · kernel · the psychology that binds them.
snailsploit[$]
01 · marks
the wordmark IS the brand.
two glyphs do all the work. the spiral becomes the lowercase ‘o’. [$] becomes the capital ‘S’. no separate illustration, no mascot — the type carries the snail and the exploit at once.
dark surface is the default — calm, instrument-like, never sterile. one signal color, used only for live status: cve severity, advisory state, the prompt cursor.
--bg
bg
page
--bg-raise
bg-raise
cards
--bg-sink
bg-sink
inset
--line
line
hairline
--line-hi
line-hi
strong rule
--fg
fg
primary
--fg-2
fg-2
secondary
--fg-3
fg-3
meta / mono
--fg-4
fg-4
disabled
--signal-2
signal
live status
light · for print, og, light pages
the same system, inverted — never the inverse aesthetic.
CVE-2026-3288 · ingress-nginx · 8.8 high
04 · typography
two faces. nothing else.
display / ui söhne · neue haas
the slow exploit is the durable one.
across substrates — kernels, language models, agents — the attacker's craft is recognisably the same. patience reads as authority.