During October 2025, Lexi Mastersvela focused on improving the stability and correctness of the GENE parser within the pyro-kinetics/pyrokinetics repository. She addressed a critical parsing issue by ensuring that ip_ccw and bt_ccw values were cast to integers, resolving misinterpretations caused by floating-point handling in numpy’s sign function. This technical adjustment, implemented in Python and leveraging skills in data parsing and numerical computing, improved the reliability of model parsing and reduced downstream errors in GENE-related workflows. Lexi’s work prioritized maintainability and correctness, resulting in fewer support issues and a more robust parser, though no new user-facing features were introduced.