Notes on agents, software, and work.
Systems / July 20, 2026 / 12 min read
AI agent frameworks: choose by the harness, not features
By the end you can name the active framework field as of July 2026, tell which published rankings are describing a superseded stack, score any candidate on four harness dimensions instead of a feature list, and run a reproducible identical-
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 10 min read
Claude Code vs Antigravity: which harness fits your work
Leave knowing not just which tool 'wins' but why they differ, what each costs and where each breaks, and a workflow-to-tool decision matrix you can apply to your own repo.
Systems / July 20, 2026 / 13 min read
Agent harness: the five levers that decide what ships
By the end you can name the five runtime levers that separate two harnesses that look identical in their READMEs, say which setting each lever needs for your blast radius, and know which of the three postures (adopt, build on an SDK, stay)
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 11 min read
App Store Connect MCP: what to check before you connect
By the end, the reader can tell which App Store Connect MCP servers are actually alive in mid-2026, knows what the API ceiling on any of them is, can scope the key so a bad tool call cannot reach production, and can decide whether they want
Systems / July 20, 2026 / 11 min read
Pi agent harness: adopt it, fork it, or stay where you are
By the end you can say which of the three postures fits your team, which of Pi's omissions will cost you time on your task shapes, and what has to be true about your containment layer before you let a default-open agent touch a repo.
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 10 min read
Blender MCP: which server to install, how to wire your client, and what to lock down first
By the end you will know which Blender MCP server to install and why, the exact config key your client reads, what to isolate before your first prompt, how to triage a setup whose logs say connected but whose client does nothing, and where
Operator notes / July 20, 2026 / 9 min read
Agentic design patterns PDF: which download you actually get
You will leave with the file, knowing which edition it is, which of the ranking links are gated before you click them, and why four documents on this one query count patterns differently.
Systems / July 20, 2026 / 12 min read
Microsoft Teams MCP: which server you actually need
By the end, the reader knows which of the Teams MCP paths matches their job, what Graph permission and consent it needs, whether it is preview or GA, and what will break at runtime.
Systems / July 20, 2026 / 11 min read
Building agentic AI systems: the harness decides what survives production
By the end you can name which control to build first, why cost is a separate failure from correctness, and when a second agent is worth its coordination overhead.