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How to Build a Local Agent Bridge: Context and Failures

The HTTP in a local agent bridge is twenty lines. Compiling context and designing failures is where the real work is. Here is how both are built.

Three Bugs My Test Suite Could Not Find

A green test suite and a working system are different things. Three bugs from one afternoon of real use, and why each was invisible to the tests.

What Is a Local Agent Bridge? Transport and Auth Rules

A local agent bridge lets a browser extension, Slack bot or CI runner call a coding agent on your machine. Here is what decides the transport.

Graph Engineering: When an Agent Loop Should Be a Graph

Graph engineering moves agent control flow from inference time to authoring time. When a loop should become a graph, and what each pattern actually costs.

Your Agent Swarm Is Probably Just Expensive Ensembling

A multi-agent swarm can beat one model on decisions, but debate often loses to self-consistency at equal compute. Four conditions under which the swarm actually earns its cost.

The Verification Burden Your AI Product Ignores

Accuracy is a lagging indicator. A controlled study found AI made expert developers 19% slower, because the work moved into reviewing. Here is the number to optimize instead.

The Shape of a Coding Agent: 544 Lines That Matter

I read Tau, a 225-file terminal coding agent, as a knowledge graph. The whole coding agent architecture turns on one idea. The event stream is the contract.

Document Parsing for AI Agents

How to choose between OCR, structured parsers, VLMs, and single-shot parsing.

10 Lessons From Production AI Agents

Ten practical lessons from tracing, evals, prompt versioning, routing, and security.

Security for Agents That Actually Do Things

Agent security requires scoped tools, sandboxing, policy checks, and audit trails.