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The implementation journal of Intent Solutions. Follow the work of turning AI capability into reliable production systems: the builds, evaluations, failures, and operating lessons your team can use for itself.
Curated long reads
Let the Model Judge. Make the Code Decide.
The model owns judgment. Deterministic code owns the gates, the commit, and the audit trail. How I rebuilt a daily writing pipeline so a hung session can no longer brick tomorrow.
Adversarial Review: The Six Lenses That Halted a Rollout
Six lenses, live state, eighteen risks. I thought the safety work was shipped. The review proved three assumptions were theater. The durable rule: the model proposes; the system owns identity, trust, and state.
The Moat Is the Trust Layer
A local-RAG demo became Intent NEXUS. The moat is not the chatbot. It is egress control, code-enforced citations, a ledger you can check, injection defense, and evals that cannot lie quietly to you.
Recent posts
MCP structuredContent: Claude Code Drops Your Text Blocks
Claude Code, as observed in our check, drops the text blocks of an MCP tool result when structuredContent is set. Put model-facing rules in a note field.
ReadSecret Scanner False Positives From Whitespace Stripping
Map each whitespace-stripped secret scanner match back to its source span and join only line wraps. Split-key false positives: Task- prose read as sk- keys.
ReadPin the Eval Dataset With a SHA-256 Digest From the Caller
An eval score is a claim about the bytes it scored. Pin the eval dataset with a SHA-256 digest from the caller, and freeze what an approved revision held.
ReadHugo Dark Mode Code Blocks Unreadable: Fix noClasses
Hugo's Chroma highlighter writes inline colours that override dark mode code boxes. Set noClasses = false, generate per-theme stylesheets, test 4.5:1 contrast.
ReadErasure Requests: Model Provider Cleanup From Reservations
Derive a model provider cleanup set from reservations and confirmed calls. An erasure request that skips a reserved call may leave personal data at the vendor.
ReadRate Limit a Django Signup Form Without Refusing Anyone
Rate-limit a Django signup form by deferring verification emails instead of refusing applicants. Submissions are stored; the mail waits for an open hour.
ReadDependabot Groups for Up-to-Date Branch Protection
Dependabot groups turn one PR per dependency into one per ecosystem. Why up-to-date branch protection makes single PRs a serial rebase queue.
ReadSeries & curriculum
MCP for Beginners
End-to-end Model Context Protocol curriculum — solutions in Python, TypeScript, Java, Rust, C#, .NET — translated across six languages.
Agentic Design Patterns
Patterns and anti-patterns for production agent systems. Decision frameworks, prompt scaffolds, evaluation harnesses.
Tiny Recursive Models
Building small recursive systems where simple loops compose into emergent behavior. Series in progress.
Research & Curriculum
Long-form research articles, learning paths, and reading lists for the AI builder community.
Retrospectives
A Gate That Refuses Correctly Still Needs Someone Listening: October 2026
Pair every safety gate with a status that names its cause, so a correct refusal gets acted on. October 2026: nine refused runs reported as integrity errors, and a new tier escalator.
August 2026August 2026: A Control That Fires on Every Case and Changes No Outcome Is a Log Line
A control that fires on every case and changes no outcome is a log line, not a control. August 2026 retrospective: 31 of 31 posts flagged for inflation with the distribution unmoved, a learned cap rule that caught zero, and a rubric six weeks stale that still names a retired rule.
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