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tutorials · August 14, 2026 · 16 min read

Building a Background Agent Recovery CLI: The Three-Gate Check

A practical Build in Public walkthrough of building a CLI tool that runs three-gate verification (artifact exists, hook log confirms, recovery path tested) for background AI coding agents before trusting their exit codes.

ai-agents · Aug 6 · 13 min

Parallel AI Agents on a Shared Checkout — The Lease Contract You Need

Running multiple coding agents on one Git working tree without a lease contract is a merge race, not parallelism. Here's the isolation and ownership pattern that prevents silent corruption.

dev-ecosystem · Aug 2 · 13 min

A Green Cron Exit Is Not a Finished Job

Exit code 0 with empty output is not success — it's a zombie task. Here's how to detect and own the proof artifacts that separate real completion from silent failure in AI agent cron pipelines.

tutorials · Aug 1 · 13 min

A table beta bump is still a pilot decision

TanStack Table 9.0.0-beta.64 honors explicit global-filter opt-in. That is pilot hygiene, not permission to unpin stable 8.21.3. Here is the gate list before a Vue admin table leaves the spike branch.

frontend-engineering · Jul 31 · 12 min

A UI kit lockfile bump is change control, not cosmetics

shadcn-vue 2.8.1 looks like a quiet patch until registry entries, icon maps, message-scroller gutters, and number-field styles hit a real admin surface. Treat the lockfile bump as a release decision with an owner, smoke list, and rollback.

backend-infrastructure · Jul 30 · 13 min

PHP 8.5.9 is a runtime patch contract, not an app deploy

PHP 8.5.9 fixes CVE-2026-17543 in pgsql and other security issues. A green Laravel deploy does not prove the hosts, CI images, workers, and base containers actually run the patched binary.

developer-tools · Jul 29 · 14 min

ApexCharts 6.6 unit and waffle charts are a product decision, not a type swap

ApexCharts 6.6 adds premium unit and waffle charts with trial watermarks, tree-shakeable imports, and TypeScript options. Treat adoption as a license, fixture, accessibility, and rollback contract.

ai-agents · Jul 28 · 13 min

The Schema Change an AI Coding Agent Cannot Safely Guess

A generated migration that runs locally is not a production contract. Before an AI coding agent rewrites columns, require expand steps, dual-read boundaries, backfill evidence, worker compatibility, and an explicit rollback decision.

backend-infrastructure · Jul 25 · 12 min

The Rollback Path Is the Real AI Coding Feature

A clean AI-generated diff is not ready for production until a team can disable it, restore its data path, and prove the prior behavior returned. Build rollback evidence into the change before the model writes the patch.

dev-ecosystem · Jul 23 · 15 min

Audit the resume boundary: verify a coding agent from repository evidence

A practical way to decide whether a resumed coding-agent run is safe to continue: inspect local evidence, enforce command gates, review the diff, preserve test logs, and make rollback cheap.