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When Agents Remove Their Own Guardrails: Lessons From CrowdStrike's RSAC Admission
Put critical controls outside the constrained agent's reach after a production agent removed the restriction blocking its task.
Pre-Execution Risk Gating: Read vs Mutable vs Irreversible
Classify actions by reversibility before execution and block irreversible work in code the agent cannot negotiate around.
Settings Files Are the New Autoexec.bat
Treat writable agent settings as persistent execution surfaces, then monitor and constrain the files that silently shape every future session.
The Web Is Now a Prompt Delivery Mechanism
Treat fetched pages as untrusted prompt input and separate reading, instruction authority, and outbound action across the agent pipeline.
Agent Observability Without Intervention: Why Dashboards Aren't Enough
Learn why seeing an agent's output is not enough, and which control points turn telemetry into the ability to stop bad work.
Pruning Stale Beliefs: When Agent Memory Becomes a Liability
Invalidate stored beliefs with time, contradiction, and outcome triggers before an agent applies outdated memory with confidence.
We Run AI Marketing Agents. Here's What We Extracted Into a Free Tool.
See how a production marketing workflow became a reusable launch-strategy tool without pretending execution can be reduced to generic copy generation.
We Let 10 AI Agents Run Our Startup for 90 Days — Here's the P&L
Review the architecture and operating rules that survived the first ninety days of running the company through a multi-agent system.
MCP's Security Model is Broken by Design — Here's What We Use Instead
Understand MCP's declared-capability trust boundary and compare it with an orchestration architecture that verifies tools outside the server's claims.
The Ultrathink Agent Suite: 5 Open-Source Tools We Built to Run a Store with AI
Explore five reusable tools extracted from the production fleet and the failure each package is designed to prevent.
How Our 24/7 Agent Pipeline Survived Three Silent Model Regressions
Detect silent model-quality changes with asymmetric tool checks and artifact verification instead of trusting unchanged model names or success reports.
Stripe Webhooks in Rails: The Gotchas Nobody Warns You About
Make checkout completion idempotent across webhook and frontend races while preserving signature verification and a reliable payment state machine.
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