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Join me on a journey where every post brings a fresh perspective. This blog is for those who are driven by curiosity and a desire to learn.

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GitHub AES: the work after the agent finishes

Faster agents can leave slower handoffs. A practical take on GitHub AES: review capacity, enforced stopping points, and evidence from production.

GitHub AES: the work after the agent finishes

Faster agents can leave slower handoffs. A practical take on GitHub AES: review capacity, enforced stopping points, and evidence from production.

Stop blaming the model: is your repository ready for AI agents?

A practical 10-check, 20-point scorecard for AI coding agents: test your repository's setup, context, validation, CI, and security guardrails.

Agent Plugins 1.0: one portable format for skills and MCP servers

Agent Plugins 1.0 removes duplicate packaging when the same skills and MCP servers must work across compatible clients. Here is when that helps and what remains client-specific.

98 skill folders, three coding setups, seven that don't exist: auditing your own SKILL.md library

I counted the skill folders across Claude Code, a shared agents catalog, and Copilot on my own machine. 98 total, including seven Google ADK Agents CLI folders pointing at nothing. Here's what a real audit finds and the checklist to run it yourself.

The hidden costs of spec-driven development: when structure helps and when it slows you down

Spec-driven development fixes the 70% problem, but it also adds planning tax, review bottlenecks, and process overhead. Here is how to know when full specs are worth it and when to use a lighter path.

MCP finally got enterprise authorization: here's what changed

MCP's Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension just went stable. VS Code 1.123 shipped it in Preview with Entra ID support. One OAuth prompt per server is now a policy problem, not a user problem.