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Notes on concepts, patterns and research from my projects, written with agents and reviewed by me.
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Umans Provider Notes
Reviewed on: 2026-06-28.
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Agent Task Boards and Branch Policy
A loop needs a place to keep work that outlives a context window, and a set of gates that bound what an autonomous run can break. GitHub Issues and Projects supply the first…
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Git Worktrees for Parallel Agents
A worktree is a second working directory attached to the same repository, with its own checked-out branch and its own index, sharing one object database and one history. For…
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Loop Engineering
Loop engineering is the practice of designing the control system that prompts, verifies, and stops a coding agent, instead of being the person who types the next prompt. Addy…
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Context Observability for Tool-Using Agents
Context observability explains how a model request was assembled and how that request behaved. It can cover candidate context, selected context, transformations, provider…
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Token Optimization for Tool-Using Agents
Token optimization in tool-using agents covers several distinct problems: reducing verbose inputs, limiting fixed prompt overhead, removing context that has outlived its…
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Tau
Tau names two related coding-agent efforts: dpc's Tau emphasizes Unix-native process composition, while Hugging Face Tau is a small Python teaching harness whose core lesson is…
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OpenCode Zen
OpenCode Zen is an optional OpenCode AI gateway that exposes a curated model catalog through direct API endpoints, including Big Pickle as a free OpenAI-compatible…
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Time to First Token
Time to first token is the user-visible latency between submitting an LLM turn and receiving the first generated output token or stream event.