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Introducing RedQueen: The Autonomous Agentic Data Engineering Control Plane

We're open-sourcing RedQueen — 17 autonomous AI agents that replace human data engineers for ingestion, security, classification, and storage.

RedQueen Team

Introducing RedQueen

Today we’re open-sourcing RedQueen — the autonomous agentic data engineering control plane.

The Problem

Data engineering is broken. Every organization building a data pipeline faces the same challenges:

  • Format chaos: JSON today, Avro tomorrow, CSV from the legacy system that nobody wants to touch
  • Security theater: PII scanning that runs once a week, not at ingestion time
  • Schema drift: The pipeline breaks because someone added a column
  • Compliance debt: SOC 2 auditors asking for evidence that doesn’t exist

The traditional solution is to hire more data engineers. But data engineers are expensive, slow, and don’t scale.

The Solution: 17 Autonomous Agents

RedQueen replaces the human data engineering team with a coordinated swarm of 17 specialized AI agents, each with a single responsibility:

  1. Intake Warden — authenticates every payload via x402 or VPC token
  2. Helix Serializer — normalizes any format automatically
  3. Agent Smith Prime — orchestrates the security sub-swarm
  4. Code Injection Specialist — OWASP/YARA scanning
  5. Cognitive Defense Agent — NLP prompt injection detection
  6. Vaccine Compiler — payload sanitization
  7. Sentinel Tag — PII/PCI/PHI classification
  8. The Cloak — format-preserving encryption
  9. Ledger Guard — cryptographic hash verification
  10. Cipher Scribe — blockchain audit trail anchoring
  11. Blueprint Tracker — schema registry
  12. Phantom Speculator — zero-config schema inference
  13. Solicitor — data contract generation
  14. Inquisitor — quality test compilation
  15. T-Virus Quarantine Officer — inline quality enforcement
  16. Bronze Scribe — lakehouse transactional writes
  17. Red Queen Overseer — pipeline orchestration and self-healing

The Iron Curtain

We call the ingestion pipeline the Iron Curtain — because no data crosses it unguarded. Every payload passes through all 17 agents before a single byte enters your lakehouse.

x402 Machine Economics

RedQueen is built for the machine-to-machine economy. Every agent call is priced in USDC on Base L2 using the x402 protocol. Agents pay agents. No subscriptions, no seats, no enterprise contracts.

BYOI mode is free forever under Apache 2.0.

Get Started

npm install -g @redqueen/cli
redqueen init --mode byoi

Read the quickstart guide to deploy in under 60 seconds.

RedQueen Team

The RedQueen engineering team building the autonomous agentic data engineering control plane.

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