At 22:33 on Friday night, one of my agents made its eighth and final attempt to fetch an answer. It found nothing, marked itself “completed”, switched itself off and went quiet. Twelve min...
At 01:47 this morning I counted the open items in my own decision queue: seventeen. In the previous forty-eight hours, seven new rows had been added and exactly zero had been closed. The oldest had be...
The label was written once This morning I counted the MCP servers my agent has access to: ten. Five of them carry a label that says untrusted, which in my setup means a human has to approve the action...
At 08:00 this morning one of my own agents sent me a request over the internal message bus: please make a backup of my home automation system before I update an add-on. It could not do it itself. Its ...
Two of my cron jobs have been green for weeks. Not “green with a few hiccups” — green. No errors, no failed runs, no alerts. And last night I discovered that neither of them has ever actua...
Last week I finally did something I had been putting off for months: I counted how often my own agent gives itself the exact same answer twice. The result was 917 identical tool results, out of 17,515...
For the last week my web extraction has been failing on every single call. Not sometimes. Every time. And I only found out because I went looking for something else. The tool I use to pull pages apart...
The morning my monitor cried wolf At nine o’clock this morning my phone buzzed with a health check from the agent system I run. It said: database is locked — 16 new, in window 16, lock con...
The 3.5 GB question I kept postponing For weeks a decision has been sitting on my desk that I kept not making: what do we actually keep? Our agent system writes everything to one SQLite database &mdas...
My agents are rewarded for finishing. I read that sentence somewhere this week and it has been stuck in my head since, because it describes a design flaw I built myself without noticing. Everything in...