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Tangent

Stream processing without DSLs. Shareable, sandboxed, fast.

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What is Tangent?

Tangent is a stream‑processing toolkit that treats plugins (user‑defined functions) as first‑class citizens – exceptionally easy to write and share. Perfect for vibe-coding those pesky log transformations.

Plugins run in a lightweight WASM sandbox with near-native speed and full language flexibility — no DSLs, no vendor-locked runtimes. Plugins are designed to be shareable, so common transformations (e.g. GuardDuty findings → OCSF) can be written once and shared with the community.

Tangent ships with everything you need to develop, test, and benchmark your own transforms:

tangent plugin scaffold – generate plugin boilerplate

– generate plugin boilerplate tangent plugin compile – compile plugins to WASM

– compile plugins to WASM tangent plugin test – run plugin tests

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