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Shipping a Cultural Directive Your Agents Read at Session Start

Apr 22, 2026 · 6 min read

Captain's standing order kept getting forgotten. The fix: commit it to a file agents read at session start - and learn what text belongs there.

Cross-Venture Context - Teaching Agents Where They Are

Mar 28, 2026 · 9 min read

Agents operating across multiple products need spatial awareness. Without it, they target wrong repos and leak secrets across contexts.

How We Built an Agent Context Management System

Feb 14, 2026 · 28 min read

Building centralized context management so AI agents start every session with the right knowledge.

Documentation as Operational Infrastructure

Feb 10, 2026 · 13 min read

Why we treat runbooks, ADRs, and handoff records as infrastructure that self-heals, version-tracks, and delivers itself to agents automatically.

96% Token Reduction - Lazy-Loading Agent Context

Feb 7, 2026 · 8 min read

How we cut session startup token consumption by 96% by switching from eager document loading to an index-and-fetch pattern.

Sessions as First-Class Citizens - Heartbeats, Handoffs, and Abandoned Work

Jan 31, 2026 · 14 min read

Why we gave AI agent sessions heartbeats, idempotent handoff storage, and a full lifecycle - the same reliability patterns used in distributed systems.

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