Agents Are a Spectrum: From Soft Routing and Tool Selection to an Autonomous Loop with Pi
A practical map of Agent patterns, followed by minimal read-only examples using the Pi CLI, SDK, and Extension API
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Chat, Workflow, or Agent? A Beginner's Guide to Choosing the Right AI Pattern
A practical guide to Chat, Workflows, Routers, Agents, and Hybrid systems, centered on one question: who decides the next step?
Securely Sync Your Development Environment with chezmoi: Auditable Dotfiles from Scratch
Build cross-device configuration sync with chezmoi, a private GitHub repository, age, and Gitleaks while preventing plaintext SSH, database, and AI-tool credentials from entering Git
When Models Start Thinking for Themselves: The Legacy Prompts Your Harness Should Retire
After the July 2026 wave of model releases, which harness prompts have gone from helpful to harmful, which should be strengthened, and which new ones are needed
Harness Engineering: A New Engineering Paradigm for the AI Agent Era
A systematic breakdown of Harness Engineering's core ideas, six components, OpenAI's million-line code case study, and strategic implications
Skills Teach AI to Do; Abilities Teach AI to Judge
The engineering evolution from Skill to Ability: how to help AI consistently inherit a class of judgments instead of merely following steps
The Complete Beginner's Guide to OpenClaw: Meet the 'Little Lobster' from Scratch
A complete OpenClaw (AI Agent) guide for absolute beginners, covering concepts, principles, ecosystem, security, and getting-started paths for different roles
Which Programming Language Is the Best for Blockchain
A comparison of the strengths, weaknesses, and blockchain use cases of Javascript, C#, C++, Python, Golang, Solidity, Java, and Rust