side projects

Lab

Small things I built to find out whether an idea held up. Some of them work. All of them taught me something I couldn’t have argued my way to.

Nominee

An authorization layer for agents that act on your behalf.

what I was testingOnce the agent outlives your session, "the user approved it" stops meaning anything. It needs its own identity.

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Tripwire

A linter for Agent Skills.

what I was testingIt's careful about what it claims. Static analysis can prove some of this; the rest needs a live agent run, and it says so.

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Agent 404

Broken-link recovery that works for agents, not just browsers.

what I was testingI built the browser version first. The agents I wanted to help never ran it.

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Pi Tagteam

Hand a stalled coding agent's work to another one.

what I was testingA dead run is a handoff problem, not your problem to re-explain.

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Patless

Retire long-lived PATs from agent workflows with GitHub OIDC.

what I was testingA secrets manager protects where the PAT sleeps. The fix is removing the PAT from the workload path.