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FWIW, I chased this demon early-days in my multi-agent orchestrated harnesses. you'll need a state machine. i used locally hosted temporal.io. it's a bit of a PITA to set up but it…

Vibe coding hardware. Nice. Super cool idea, and I like the hierarchy view - looks like SolidWorks / OnShape, but your UI's pretty flaky; it keeps chasing the solution. If you coul…

We're building in this space so I'll share what we've learned rather than what we sell. The fundamental problem with Article 50 compliance isn't knowing the obligations — it's oper…

I run multi-agent teams in high-consequence scenarios. Read: fuckups at 3 AM = I'm awake. I kept hitting the same issue. I couldn't get a rules-based system to enforce behavior and…

Yah... how does this evolve... this is the big question. Honest answer? We'll see. My opinion? Human-in-the-loop will get thinner over time. As that happens, the accountability cha…

Update: Just shipped cryptographic verification for the entire integrity pipe. Checkpoints produce signed certs: SHA-256 input commitments + Ed25519 sigs + tamper-evident hash chai…

Hey! I launched AAP and AIP via Apache specifically because I want independent implementations built on top of them. I have a pretty killer roadmap of new features for both protoco…

You're welcome - and thanks for that. Makes up for the large time blocks away from the family. It does feel like potentially the most important work of my career. Would love your f…

Not a dumb question — it's the right one. "Who watches the watchmen" has been on my mind from the start of this. Today the answer is two layers: The integrity check isn't an LLM de…

Yep... fair question. So AIP and AAP are protocols. You can implement them in a variety of ways. They're implemented on our infrastructure via smoltbot, which is a hosted (or self-…

The short version: instructions tell the model what to do. An Alignment Card declares what the agent committed to do — and then a separate system verifies it actually did. Most int…

Close but not quite — it's not re-steering the model. AIP doesn't modify the agent's behavior or inject corrections back into the context. It's a passive observer that reads the th…

Ha! That's a first-world problem. Check out github.com/mnemom/docs which you'll be able to access at work if you just can't wait. docs.mnemom.ai is way easier to use.

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Yes — and it's a deliberate architectural decision that AIP is not itself a policy engine. Policy engines (OPA/Rego, Cedar, Casbin) are excellent at "given this action, is it permi…

Good question. So... AAP/AIP are agnostic about how checking is done, and anyone can use the protocols and enforce them however they want. Smoltbot is our hosted (or self-hosted) m…

Actually, not really... proofing against prompt injection (malicious and "well intentioned") was part of my goal here. What makes AAP/AIP so powerful is that prompt injection would…

Fair... Happy to do a deep dive on the protocols. FWIW, I'm dogfooding with an openclaw running smoltbot called Hunter S. Clawmpson. He blogs about AI from an AI's perspective: mne…

Great minds... I built my own memory harness, called "Argonaut," to move beyond what I thought were Beads' limitations, too. (shoutout to Yegge, tho - rad work) Regarding your poin…

Fair comment. Possibly, I'm being overly self-critical in that assertion. AAP/AIP are designed to work as a conscience sidecar to Antropic/OpenAI/Gemini. They do the thinking; we'r…

Thanks! We submitted a formal comment to NIST's 'Accelerating the Adoption of Software and AI Agent Identity and Authorization' concept paper on Feb 14. It maps AAP/AIP to all four…

Much of my work right now involves complex, long-running, multi-agentic teams of agents. I kept running into the same problem: “How do I keep these guys in line?” Rules weren’t cut…

Actually, I don't really work at an AI startup. My day job is investing in cool companies that push the limits across all sorts of industries (space, defense, disaster response, av…

I built the infrastructure this agent runs on. Yesterday I was talking about rediscovering the magic of engineering at 50 — this is what I'm building at 2 AM - early LEGO blocks. H…