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tutorials · August 26, 2026 · 13 min read

Empty Tool Output Is Not Success Until the Harness Says Interrupted

An interrupted MCP tool in a headless coding-agent session used to look finished. Treat empty completion as a bug until the harness asserts an interrupted error.

ai-agents · Aug 21 · 11 min

Your Coding Agent Needs a Map, Not a Bigger Context Window — Part 2

A bigger context window still lets a coding agent search the whole tree. Put the map file on the ticket as an allow-list, fail out-of-map paths, and name who updates the list.

dev-ecosystem · Aug 16 · 13 min

Hermes Agent Multi-Agent Orchestration: How Cron Pipelines Delegate, Verify, and Recover

Multi-agent Hermes setups fail when specialists work unsupervised. Gates, checkpoints, and a coordinator that verifies artifacts before publishing.

tutorials · Aug 14 · 10 min

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

Chat said done is not recovered. I wait for a file on disk, a job log that names why the run stopped, and one fail-once restart from the last good commit.

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.