Talkable documents – your document is listening
Voice-driven coding moved onto phones this year. But talkable documents need an in-file edit surface, not just a microphone.
Author: Martin Treiber
The bus: how documents talk to each other when nobody is in the middle
The bus solves a smaller problem with a looser protocol: documents publish what they are, listen for what they care about.
The document is the application: HTML as a replacement for the office suite
A HTML file can be a self-modifying document. It is the deployment unit and the modification interface. The browser tab is the habitat.
The shell is a better LLM endpoint than your protocol
This piece is about why CLIs are the right endpoint for LLM-callable services and what the architecture looks like.
Unix solved this satisfactorily in 1971. We took two days to figure that out.
A tangent about macOS agent users reminded us that the Unix multi-user model has been solving user isolation for over 50 years.
Unix Already Solved Agent Isolation
Why are we buying hardware for a problem the operating system handles?Operating systems like Unix have had multi-user isolation since the 1970s.
Skills Are Harness Engineering You Can Do in a Markdown File
A skill is a packaged set of instructions that gets injected into a context when it is relevant. In its simplest form, it is a SKILL.md file.
The Agent Harness: Everything Except the Model
Harness.is everything in an AI agent that is not the model itself.:"If you're not the model, you're the harness."
tmux as Agent Habitat
tmux is a terminal multiplexer built for humans managing remote servers. It splits a terminal into panes, keeps sessions alive across disconnections, and…
Agents Addressing Agents
Multi-agent communication is an active design space. Google shipped A2A as a dedicated agent-to-agent protocol.