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AI Skills & Engineering

Tools, agents, and engineering practice

108 articles
AI Agent

Context Engineering: The New Foundation for AI Agents

Context engineering is the set of strategies for curating, ordering, and evicting the tokens that enter an LLM’s context window on each inference …

Context Engineering AI
A wide schematic of context engineering: the Write / Select / Compress / Isolate pillars feeding an AI, a laptop with notes, and a local-first world line
AI Agent

Agent Engineering Harness: The Eight Pillars Behind the 98.4%

A small model loop becomes a system only after we decide what it may remember, touch, spend, and survive. An agent demo can be a loop around an API …

AI Agent
A technical diagram with a tiny agent loop at the center, surrounded by concentric rings of the eight pillars: orchestration, context, memory, tools, reliability, evaluation, cost, governance
AI Agent

Agent Identity: From Locke to OpenClaw

A philosophical boundary and an engineering practice for continuity in AI agents Start by Making “Identity” Small Enough to Engineer Agent amnesia …

AI Agent
Files, memory, runtime boundaries, and evaluation for continuous agent identity
AI Agent

Mem0 OSS v3 in Practice: Memory Architecture, Retrieval, and Trade-offs

This project note is part of my attempt to understand open-source AI systems by building with them, reading their migrations, and writing down …

AI Agent
A quiet archive of linked memory cards illustrating Mem0 OSS v3 retrieval
AI Agent

Microsoft UFO³ Explained: From Windows Desktop AgentOS to a Multi-Device Agent Galaxy

Why UFO matters Desktop automation has always had an awkward boundary. Scripts are fast and precise when an application exposes the right interface. …

AI Agent
Microsoft UFO desktop agent architecture
Engineering

Argo CD in Production: GitOps Sync, ApplicationSets, Rollbacks, and Security

A green sync does not prove the delivery system is safe When Argo CD turns an application green, it proves one narrow thing: at that moment, the …

Kubernetes DevOps
Argo CD continuously comparing desired state in Git with live Kubernetes state

Growth & Life

Growth, reflection, and lived experience

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Growth & Life

June 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, Daily Life, Engineering

2025 June Thought Notes 181 notes this month | recorded from 2025-06-02 to 2025-06-15 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 55 · Daily Notes and …

Blog Monthly Notes
Growth & Life

How I Learned to Observe My Own Thinking: A Four-Month Metacognitive Shift

I once thought metacognition meant thinking more deeply about an experience and explaining an emotion more completely. Over four months, I recorded …

Personal Growth Self-Discovery
Growth & Life

May 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, Engineering, AI and Agent Systems

2025 May Thought Notes 84 notes this month | recorded from 2025-05-03 to 2025-05-25 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 29 · Product, Engineering …

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Growth & Life

April 2025 Thought Notes: Self-Knowledge, AI and Agent Systems, Engineering

2025 April Thought Notes 113 notes this month | recorded from 2025-04-05 to 2025-04-17 Themes: Self-Knowledge and Psychology 30 · AI and Agent …

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Growth & Life

March 2025 Thought Notes: AI and Agent Systems, Self-Knowledge, Engineering

2025 March Thought Notes 52 notes this month | recorded from 2025-03-01 to 2025-03-22 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 21 · Self-Knowledge and …

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Growth & Life

February 2025 Thought Notes: AI and Agent Systems, Self-Knowledge, Engineering

2025 February Thought Notes 40 notes this month | recorded from 2025-02-18 to 2025-02-27 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 11 · Self-Knowledge and …

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