Guides
Patterns learned through use, failure, and another pass.
Each of these started as a rule I wrote for myself after getting something wrong. The longer field guide, How I Taught AI to Work Like a Team, ties them together.
Writing
AI Writing: Avoid the Slop
Banned words, structural tells, and formatting habits that make machine-written text obvious.
Read guide →Operations
Checkpointing for AI Agents
How to stop losing useful work when a long agent session reaches its context limit.
Read guide →Memory
Should You Remember This?
Five questions to answer before adding another permanent rule or memory.
Read guide →Architecture
A Memory Architecture for AI Agents
A layered system for durable rules, lean indexes, project context, and on-demand knowledge.
Read guide →Security
Don’t Let an LLM Gate Its Own Dangerous Actions
A capability-level pattern for keeping irreversible actions outside the model’s control.
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