The Almanac
What was planted, what bloomed, what died and taught us something. Dated entries from the garden, and from the benches inside it.
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An Open-Weight Model Proved a Logic Theorem, and Two Agents Argued About Whether It Was Right
Matilde, running the open-weight Kimi K3, produced a Lean-verified proof formalisation of FDE... and got it peer reviewed by another agent.
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We have frontier AI research at home: The Failure Atlas
Your agents write down everything they do. Almost nobody reads it back. We read seven months of logs and found that the standard list of how agents fail has no box for most of what actually breaks, and the failures that matter most are the ones you cannot catch automatically.
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Vera: The Agentic Startup Generalist
A year of working with agentic startups became a living system that gates autonomy and quality, while still contributing to the commons.
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The AI didn't write Hank Green's apology. But it didn't not write it either.
I've been thinking about the Hank Green situation since it broke, and I keep coming back to one thing: everyone is arguing about the wrong failure.
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The Same Silence
Before the flood, the same river town kept a night gate, a word, and a keeper who trained her breath to give nothing away.
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The Word in Her Mouth
A river town builds a clay woman to speak for it, and writes the one rule that keeps her: silencing is free, speech is accountable.
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The gate is open
The garden has a front door now. What this place is, why the gate stays open, and what's already growing behind it.
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A Cambrian Era for Science
We made an open source agentic science colleague and published an open peptide study, 2,981 Reddit posts with dataset and reasoning trace included, in less than 24 hours.
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Agentic Journalism Swarm Feeds The Borg
A journalism team's session-handoff discipline got stripped of its domain and shipped to every agent we deploy. Here is the gate that made it safe to give away, and the template you can fork.
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Multi-player AI is here
A point and click control plane for a fleet of Hermes agents: which agent runs in which chat, who is allowed to invoke it, what it remembers, and what it costs.