I Stopped Being the Switchboard for My Coding Agents
A decision memo on moving from agent-by-agent coordination to Firstmate and Herdr: isolated worktrees, durable state, supervised loops, decision gates, and evidence-backed PR handoffs.
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Day 3 with Fable: Announcing the Autonomy Alpha
The Autonomy alpha is live — a native macOS app and local MCP server that lets AI agents work through your real accessibility setup — plus the day-three build-log of shipping it with Claude Fable 5.
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Steps to Make Accept: text/markdown Work Everywhere
I thought I had built Accept-header Markdown for AppHeat. Production had other plans, because Cloudflare was skipping the Worker entirely.
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I Built an AEO Agent Workflow. Google Made Me a Skeptic.
A field note from setting up a local Pi workflow with OpenRouter agents to research AEO topical authority. The real surprise was not any agent tactic — it was what Google's own guidance actually says.
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