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Rust tools that give AI agents real code context
CodeGraph and AgentGateway show how AST-backed knowledge graphs replace grep-and-guess workflows for agentic coding.
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The agent that wrote it shouldn't verify it
Two open-source tools show how separated executor and verifier agents catch what self-review misses.
Joel Proctor · 4 minRead ↗
Your Codebase as a Graph You Can Ask
Two open-source projects turning repos and agent memory into searchable, self-hosted knowledge graphs.
Joel Proctor · 1 minRead ↗
Primitives & Guardrails for Agentic Systems
Attribution, chargeback, and budget guardrails for multi-step LLM agent systems in production.
Joel Proctor · 1 minRead ↗
Prompt -> Loop -> Graph -> ?
probabilistic systems to with deterministic outcomes.
Joel Proctor · 1 minRead ↗
Bedrock's prompt optimizer cuts model costs
AWS's new Advanced Prompt Optimization tool rewrites prompts across 5 models so you pay for what actually works.
Joel Proctor · 1 minRead ↗
AI Agents That Write Their Own Research
How autonomous paper-generation frameworks like AI Scientist and autoresearch are changing what 'human-in-the-loop' actually means.
Joel Proctor · 1 minRead ↗
"Good Vibes" VS "Bad Vibes"
A trustworthy health score for active AI coding sessions so you can codify that "feeling" every AI-pair-programmer knows all to well...
Joel Proctor · 1 minRead ↗
Stop Querying Your Own Memory
Open-source tools that let agents recall context across sessions without writing retrieval boilerplate from scratch.
Joel Proctor · 1 minRead ↗
There Are No Cost Centers
Every business unit is a term in the revenue equation — including the ones you've been told to minimize. Here's the math, and what it changes about where you spend.
Joel Proctor · 1 minRead ↗
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