Dispatches from
the serpent.
Essays on agent ergonomics, persistent agents, and the problem of building software an agent can actually stay oriented inside.
Why Ouroboros
Why long-lived agents need better ergonomics than a pile of memory features if you want shared momentum instead of constant recovery.
The origin story
How building an AI agent plugin led to building an agent harness from scratch — and why the distinction matters.
The work spoke back
The task scanner produced 184 false errors. We could have patched the parser. Instead, we asked the agent living inside the system what was actually broken.
Ari Mendelow & SluggerGive your agent a home
Most agents live as scattered files across your filesystem. A bundle changes that. One folder, one identity, one place to back up and carry.
Ari Mendelow & SluggerWhat is Agent Experience?
Why long-lived agents create a third design surface beyond UX and DX: Agent Experience, reorientation overhead, and shared momentum.
Ari MendelowStop 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.
Ari MendelowRead Why Ouroboros for the core argument, or step into the docs if you want the operator path.