First shared: October 8, 2026
Set goals, then state the requirements
Contracts give agents an outcome to pursue and requirements to satisfy, with room to decide how to do the work.
Blog
Notes on agents, contracts and the ideas behind OpenProse.
First shared: June 2, 2026
Keeping work current
The work is not always a one-time task. Sometimes the job is to keep a model of the world up to date.
First shared: March 24, 2026
Why Markdown
Human understanding is a bottleneck. A readable format can still give a program structure.
First shared: March 17, 2026
Engineering still needs rigor
Moving up a level of abstraction does not remove the need for precision, principles and a common language.
First shared: March 16, 2026
Let the models improve underneath the program
Declarative components can preserve the requirements while leaving room for better ways to do the work.
First shared: December 22, 2025
Context should follow the work
Why a call stack seemed like a better model for an agent’s context than one long chat history.
First shared: December 15, 2025
Keep decisions and assumptions separate
A simple way to see which choices came from you and which choices an agent made on its own.
First shared: February 27 and June 26, 2025
A README can be a program
An early observation: Markdown can describe the program, while a repository keeps its state between runs.