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Technical Deep-Dive

Green CI Proves Nothing: Why Your Tests Gate Zero Calls

CI dogfood for AI-agent governance went green while gating zero tool calls. Here's why a passing test proving nothing is worse than a red one.

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Technical Deep-Dive

Honor the Gate When the Verdict Is Inconvenient

A quality gate only matters if you honor its verdict. How pre-registration and honest-gate culture stopped two teams from faking green or rationalizing a STOP.

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Technical Deep-Dive

Making Agents Reliable on Real-Device Clouds

Reliability on a real-device cloud isn't in the API calls — it's in the partial-failure seams between MCP tool calls. Three task-specific agents, four advisory hooks, and a documented-limitations list make those seams legible so an agent routes instead of guessing.

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DevOps

Stop Crying Wolf: A 3-Strike Gate for Uptime Monitors

Fix uptime monitor alert fatigue with a 3-strike debounce gate and real per-probe diagnostics. Stops false positives, keeps real outages visible.

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Technical Deep-Dive

Human-in-the-Loop Is a Delivery Guarantee, Not a UI Feature

Human-in-the-loop agent delivery is exactly-once, fail-closed. Two repos shipped the same four-move discipline the same day — convergence, not coincidence.

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DevOps

Nine Days Silent: When the Blog's Own Pipeline Stopped Publishing Itself

A 9-day publishing blackout went unnoticed because monitoring reported success while producing nothing. Git worktrees + orphan branches + timeout logs = silent failure at scale.

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Architecture

The Wrong Product, Built Perfectly

A new site was scaffolded, deployed, and live with valid TLS in under an hour — then declared the wrong product. The decoupling made the reversal cheap.

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AI Engineering

From one adopter to two: the discovery-affordance spec just got named

A 39.7k-star skills repo adopted my discovery-manifest pattern by name. What changed, why it matters, and the install_source_url work that comes next.

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Technical Deep-Dive

Vite Dev Server in Production: The 871-Byte Tell

scorecardecho.com shipped the Vite dev server to every visitor. Three signals catch it in a minute; a multi-stage Dockerfile fixes it for any SPA container.

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Technical Deep-Dive

CI gap: shellcheck + ruff caught 4 findings

Plugin scripts had zero lint coverage. Added shellcheck + ruff to CI; caught four issues on first run. Behavior tests missed them.

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