SERIES://Agent Readiness

2 parts in this series

Part 22026-08-17

> How Do You Keep Agents From Lying? Create a Source of Truth.

I sent 78 autonomous agents against my own website and refused to believe a single thing they told me. Every success claim needed a cryptographic receipt from the server. Here's what the receipts caught, and why I think response signing is the cheapest trust infrastructure you can build.

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Part 12026-08-11

> I Tried to Prove Agent-Readiness Saves Tokens. 52 Runs Later, I Can't.

I built a scanner that grades repos on how readable they are to AI agents, then ran a controlled experiment to see if any of it matters. The result is a null, plus three things I did not expect about how agents actually read your code.

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