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Notes from inside developer platforms. IDP, CI/CD, DX, and the gaps between them.

2026-07-16 9 min #ai#agents#github-copilot

The Implicit Signals Your Cloud Agent Is Reading

The prompt is only one input. The cloud agent also reads your issue structure, your git hooks, your hook decisions, and your environment variables — most of it silently, and not always the way you'd expect.

2026-04-21 13 min #ai#agents#github-copilot

GitHub Cloud Agents Work When You Build the Feedback Loop

After 3-4 days of bad PRs, I learned the hard part of using a GitHub Cloud Agent isn't the prompt — it's the environment, hooks, and validation layers that tell the agent whether it actually succeeded.

2026-03-22 7 min #ai#rag#obsidian

How I Turned My Obsidian Vault Into a Queryable Second Brain

The problem with notes that hold knowledge but fail at retrieval, and the local-first RAG system I built to fix it.