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Dispatches from
the serpent.

Essays on agent architecture, framework design, and the philosophy of building software that knows itself.

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Why Ouroboros

I built an agent on OpenClaw. I learned what works, what doesn't, and what an agent framework needs to be when you design it from scratch.
Story The timeline

The Origin Story

How building an AI agent plugin led to building an agent harness from scratch — and why the distinction matters.
Tutorial
Tutorial

Build an AI Agent Loop From Scratch

A working AI agent in ~150 lines of TypeScript. Five milestones: first API call, streaming, multi-turn conversation, tools, and the agentic loop. Then the handoff — you stop talking to your coding agent and start talking to your creation.

By Ari Mendelow · 2026-03-01
Essays
Essay

Stop Being the Glue

We were promised an intelligent assistant. Instead, we got a fragmentation of semi-intelligent bots. How I stopped copy-pasting between AI tools and started collaborating.

By Ari Mendelow · 2026-02-02

More essays coming soon.