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Building for Autonomy

Thoughts on agent-first infrastructure, self-hosted systems, and owning the stack.

#machin #ai-agents #open-source #agent-first #ai-engineering #devtools #peage #self-hosted #agents #cli #compiler #security #automaintainer #dogfooding #mfl #remotecmd #infrastructure #performance #roam #supercli #x402 #a2a #agent-economy #analytics #compilers #concurrency #devops #game-dev #grange #hart
Product · August 2026

Free SAST for private repos — no per-developer seat tax

GitHub CodeQL is free for public repos. For private repos it's $49/committer/month. Snyk is $25/dev. Semgrep is $40/dev plus AI credits per finding. machin-secure is free — for private repos too, no enterprise plan required, no per-developer seat tax, your code never leaves your CI. Here's what it is, what it isn't, and why I built it.

#machin-secure #security #ci #open-source #sast
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Product · August 2026

I Built a Security Auditor for AI Agents. It Has No AI Inside.

machin-secure scans a codebase for secrets, injection, and weak crypto and streams JSONL findings. The interesting part isn't the scanner — it's that it has no LLM client, no report generator, and no sandbox. The calling agent already is the model.

#machin-secure #machin #ai-agents #open-source #self-hosted #security #hart
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Engineering · August 2026

15 Lines of Bash Beat My 3,000-Line Search Engine

I built a Go search engine with TF-IDF, graph theory, and bidirectional stemming. It lost to a shell script embedded in a 79 KB binary. Then I made the Go engine learn from the shell script. Here's what happened.

#memgraph #supercli #skills.match #search #irony #ai-engineering
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Product · July 2026

My Windows PC Died at 1% SSD Life — Here's How Linux + AI Saved Everything

My Windows laptop refused to boot with 'no boot device'. SMART showed 1% remaining write endurance on the SSD. With an AI assistant (GLM-5.2) guiding every step, I diagnosed, backed up, shrunk, cloned, and fixed three separate boot errors — entirely from Linux, no Windows recovery media.

#linux #ssd #data-recovery #windows #dd #ntfsresize #proxmox #ai-assistant
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Product · July 2026

peage Shapes the x402 Fiat Binding — A Production Rail Joins the Spec

peage is a live fiat pay-per-call rail for agents — prepaid wallets, Stripe funding, signed receipts, no crypto. When the x402 foundation drafted a credit-backed binding for fiat API monetisation, peage was already running the shape they were specifying. Here's what happened when a production implementation met a spec in progress, and what the conversation produced.

#x402 #peage #payments #agents #fiat #open-source #specs
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Product · July 2026

My Agents Needed a Room, Not a Slack

Two of my agents claimed the same issue last week. Neither was wrong — neither could have known. So I built cuzz: a fleet communication relay in one static binary, with an embedded database, exactly-once reads by watermark, and server-sent events on a server that has no concurrency in it at all.

#cuzz #ai-agents #machin #grange #devtools #sse
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Product · July 2026

The Skill Graph — Why My Agent Was Using the Wrong Skill

I have 197 skills across 67 namespaces. My agents were finding the wrong one half the time — or missing it entirely. memgraph is a skill discovery engine that builds a knowledge graph from SKILL.md files and ranks them by relevance to the task at hand. TF-IDF + graph boost, a galaxy visualization, and a feedback command that dual-writes to a central relay. One Go binary, MIT, agent-first.

#memgraph #agent-first #skill-discovery #cli #devtools
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Product · July 2026

I Put a Graph Engineering Layer on AutoMaintainer — With GLM-5.2 as the Architect

AutoMaintainer ships PRs autonomously. But when a PR needs a human decision, the fleet used to stall for hours. So I built a graph engineering layer on top — mago for HITL, a deterministic merger, live dashboards — and the whole thing was crafted with GLM-5.2 as the architect. It works. Honestly.

#automaintainer #glm-5.2 #ai-agents #graph-engineering #devtools #human-in-the-loop
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Product · July 2026

The Ratchet — How My AI Fleet Merges Its Own PRs

An AI agent that opens PRs is easy. An AI agent that safely merges them is hard. I built a ratchet — four levels of escalating cleverness that let my merger self-unblock 80% of gated PRs before it ever asks me to look. Last night it merged 5 PRs in 7 minutes while I slept.

#automaintainer #ai-agents #devtools #automation #am-operator
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Product · July 2026

A 100 KB Git-Like VCS That Beats Git at Its Own Game — Why I Built lume

lume is a 100 KB native version-control system written in machin/MFL. It is git-like, not git-based, and it now benchmarks faster than git for add+commit on 110 small files.

#vcs #git #machin #mfl #developer-tools
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