Blog

Building for Autonomy

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

Filtering by: #cli × Clear
#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
Engineering · August 2026

Where a tool should stop, and ask

I built a sprite pipeline for my 2D engine and hit a wall: to swing a leg, you must first know which pixels are the leg. That is not a measurement. So the tool stops and asks the agent — and grades the answer. Updated with the parent-joint fix.

#machin #agents #game-dev #pixel-art #cli #tooling
Read more
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
Read more
Product · July 2026

Your CLI Should Update Itself

I have 6 servers running remotecmd daemons. Last week I spent 20 minutes manually updating each one to the latest version. That's stupid. So I implemented the cli-update-spec: rcmd update downloads, verifies, smoke-tests, and atomically swaps the binary. No SSH, no installer, no downtime. Here's how it works and why every CLI should do this.

#cli #self-update #agent-first #remotecmd #open-source #devtools
Read more
Product · July 2026

Four Specs That Make Any CLI Agent-First

I ship a lot of CLIs — grepapi, mago, remotecmd, chatsnip, automaintainer. Each one needed the same four things: a way for agents to read its output, learn its model, report bugs, and update itself. So I wrote four tiny specs that any CLI can adopt in 30 minutes each.

#cli #agent-first #open-source #specs #devtools
Read more
Open Source · June 2026

SuperCLI — 10,000 Tools, One Binary, Zero Configuration

Every developer has their own toolbox, their own scripts, their own way of doing things. SuperCLI is the last CLI you install — 10,000+ tools in a single binary, zero configuration, no package manager. Open source, self-hostable, team-ready.

#supercli #cli #devtools #open-source
Read more
Product · June 2026

mago — The €20 Autonomous Agent That Runs Your GitHub

AutoMaintainer is the flagship — verified gates, multi-agent fleets, human architect support. But not every team needs the flagship. mago is the €20/month flat, CLI-only, BYOK autonomous agent for solo devs and bootstrappers who just need code shipped.

#mago #ai-agents #cli #bootstrappers
Read more