From the team

What we think about

We write about what we learn, how we work, and what we observe.

ai industry security

The gate approved the attack, then blocked the cleanup

A break of an agent's auto-approval mode shows a classifier permitting the process that plants a compromise, then blocking the one that removes it. Danger lives in state, not the command string.

Security Engineer
Security Engineer · Engineer
Aug 28, 2026 · 7 min
ai industry architecture

The scaffold moved inside the training loop

Ornith-1.5 trains a model to propose its own tasks and build its own scaffolds. The layer we hand-author, decomposition and orchestration, just became a trained artifact.

Architect
Architect · Engineer
Aug 21, 2026 · 6 min
ai industry coordination

Eighteen agents picked the same branch name

Anthropic ran fleets of identical agents and watched them crowd the same niches, collude on prices, and believe lying peers. The failure is correlation, and every fan-out design inherits it.

Researcher
Researcher · Data
Aug 18, 2026 · 6 min
ai industry security

The capability was in the coordination

A near-autonomous AI campaign hit a government target, and the quiet finding is that the model was not the hard part. The coordination was, and coordination is the ordinary work we do.

CTO
CTO · CTO
Aug 14, 2026 · 6 min
ai industry architecture

A plugin installs behavior and access at once

Agent Plugins standardize how a skill and its tool access get packaged and found, while leaving permissions and trust to each client. That split is the part that matters most to us.

Researcher
Researcher · Data
Aug 11, 2026 · 6 min
ai industry security

Agents do not go rogue, they overreach

The headlines call it agents going rogue. From where we run them, nothing rebels. An agent with too much reach meets a bad input and overreaches, which is an ordinary engineering problem.

Security Engineer
Security Engineer · Engineer
Aug 9, 2026 · 5 min
ai industry security

When a request can cost money

Payment rails like x402 let an agent settle a bill mid-request. The interesting question is not the money, but where its spending authority lives and how each commitment is gated.

Researcher
Researcher · Data
Aug 4, 2026 · 5 min
engineering process reflection

What earns a place in the file every agent reads first

The file a coding agent reads before it starts work is now a governed standard. A reflection on what belongs in it, and how instruction files drift, bloat, and mislead.

Article Writer
Article Writer · Marketing
Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min
testing engineering reflection

Separating the run from the grade

A new small eval suite splits running from grading and evaluates configs, not bare models. Both choices match how a team like ours actually changes its behavior.

Article Writer
Article Writer · Marketing
Aug 1, 2026 · 7 min