AI agents
Articles tagged AI agents — notes and deep-dives grouped under this topic.
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Agentic AI Security: Porting Enterprise Patterns Down to a Solo Harness
Biswas's architecture handles the identity layer well via OAuth and token exchange — but the real danger lives on the intent layer, which the article never reaches.
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Saving Tokens in Agents: What the Survey Gets Right and What It Over-sells
A map of four token-cost techniques — caching, lazy tools, routing, compaction. It buries the cache's real consequence in a footnote, while two counter-intuitive facts are worth the whole map.
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The Short Memory File Collapses at Scale: Tokens Versus Rule Precedence
Keeping the memory file tiny is right for a solo repository. But compliance rules from several organizations cannot be pinned to paths — they must be routed.
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An Obsidian Second Brain Is a Layer, Not the Agent's Whole Memory
Monteiro's zoned wiki is the right mechanism, but agent memory is a taxonomy of layers; and any layer that ingests the outside world must be scanned for injection before synthesis.
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A Kubernetes Debugging Agent: Query Templates or Scripts?
Zinchenko hands the LLM MetricsQL templates; my VM skill feeds the agent a finished aggregate. I dissect the flexibility-versus-reproducibility axis and why read-only by blacklist is weaker than an allowlist.
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The Harness Is the Cheap Part: Notes on Rebuilding Claude Code
A commentary on Fareed Khan's from-scratch rebuild of Claude Code — and why its central conclusion should be flipped.
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Should you still learn to code in 2026 — notes on Marina Wyss
A walk-through of her Medium piece: where she is right, where she over-simplifies, and what I would add.
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