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Interfaces, bounded plans, durable execution, current authority, and evidence—plus the unvarnished work of building the system in public.
Subscribe via RSSA signed agent plan can freeze exact intent without freezing authority, budget, price, or current state.
Read article →Traditional APIs expose one operation at a time. Agent-native APIs need a bounded, inspectable contract for the complete job.
Read article →Coding agents already understand shells. An agent-ready CLI adds predictable discovery, JSON, retries, and exit behavior without becoming a second control plane.
Read article →Use host-run code for bounded data work, return unfamiliar judgment to the agent, and keep consequential operations as explicit governed calls.
Read article →Good agent infrastructure needs more than a tool server. It needs one durable contract across MCP, REST, code, and the command line.
Read article →AI agents can already spend through billing-connected credentials. Governing that spend requires policy before execution, two-phase budgets, human gates, and an append-only ledger.
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