llms.txt
A little fishing line for agents: llms.txt
February 2026
Old Things That Look Like Agents
Agents aren’t entirely new: Mechanical Turk, VPS Hosts and Cloud IAM each hint at the infrastructure we need.
January 2026
“The best projects are ones where you’d be happy if you found out that somebody had already done it.”
November 2025
Handing Your Phone to a Stranger, Why Agents Need Their Own Identity
How Agents and tools are conceptually different, why MCP and A2A are not the same thing and the practical implications for Agentic system designers. (Plus a shoggoth with a smiley face).
October 2025
A general outline of how “Agents” differ from other software systems, and what implications those differences have for platform operators.
August 2025
Schema Driven [Smart] Crawling is Cheap and Effective
I wrote a “Smart Crawler” for my own niche deep research platform. Because of the constraints of my problem domain and the approach I used, the costs are impressively low. Source code is available under an MIT license.
Drafts
Unfinished: To impersonate, or not to impersonate?
Some quick heuristics to help decide if setting up the infrastructure to handle ‘On Behalf Of’ is overkill.
I’m working on proposing an Egress Gateway for Kubernetes SIG-Networking to allow for easy configuration
of AI specific policies e.g. uniformly applied guardrails for both local and external inference.
Abandoned approach: PR Instead
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