TAG://#agents

4 posts tagged #agents

2026-08-17series: Agent Readiness

> 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.

#ai (15)#agents (4)#security (8)#devtools (5)

2026-08-11series: Agent Readiness

> 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.

#ai (15)#agents (4)#opensource (23)#devtools (5)

2026-08-11

> I Put One Example in a Prompt and It Decided How the Agent Read My Whole Repo

I was benchmarking agent-readiness when I noticed the agent never opened a single markdown file. Not the README, not AGENTS.md, nothing. The cause was one helpful sentence I wrote in the prompt.

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2026-04-03

> Your System Is Not a State Machine

State machines can't describe agentic AI systems. The state space is too vast, the behavior isn't stochastic, and the flowchart is a lie. What replaces it?

#ai (15)#architecture #agents (4)#systems-design