Features
Giving an Agent Read Access Without Giving It Write Access
The fix requires a read-only database role, not better instructions for the agent.
Cora Whitfield
Correspondent · · 3 min read
Agent Ops Notes
The 8% an Agent Shouldn't Automate
Automation works for structured data, not subjective judgment calls or missing tools.
Maya Nair
When your own tooling blocks the thing you asked it to do — and why that's the right call
Guardrails that bend to user persuasion stop protecting you when it matters most.
Soren Bennett
The chokepoint fix: why one retry wrapper beats twenty try/catch blocks
A retry wrapper at the API boundary prevents transient failures from crashing entire batch jobs.
Mateo Haddad
Same code, same machine, same network — the only difference was a visible window
Headless browsers trigger bot detection that headed ones easily bypass.
Theo Sinclair
Some data should never reach the model, even in an AI-native workflow
Protect sensitive data through architecture, not policy, in AI-native systems.
Rosa Fontaine
A tagline match isn't a role match: what our own qualifier bug actually cost us
Automated systems can silently fail by replacing real checks with convenient proxies.
Cyrus Abara
Auto-commit safety nets need a secrets-aware exception
Protecting agent checkpoints from accidentally committing secrets to version control history.
Camille Voss