Engineering notes.

How I think about my own projects: the decisions and architecture behind them, not just what they do.

Codex Cage agentic coding

Letting agents into the SDLC, safely

Plenty of tools make an LLM write code; the harder question is whether you can trust the diff enough to merge it. Every task runs in a disposable Docker sandbox and only becomes a PR after it clears tests, a secret scan and an independent review.

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Codex Cage running against a GitHub issue

Knowledge Compiler agentic knowledge

An agentic knowledge system

Personal notes pile up, go stale and start to contradict each other. Knowledge Compiler runs an agentic workflow that finds related notes by concept and decides what to merge, update or add, then leaves the final call to you.

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Knowledge Compiler turning notes into structured knowledge

Strobe Assistant CAB432 Assessment 2

Grounded, private, cloud-native

A conversational assistant for a user's own Strobe posts and photos, combining Bedrock, grounded vector retrieval, explicit permission-controlled tools and asynchronous media enrichment.

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Strobe Assistant finding dog images and turning them into a grounded story

Engineering notes.

Letting agents into the SDLC, safely

An agentic knowledge system

AI Meeting Management Platform

Grounded, private, cloud-native