The Write-Ahead Blog

The Liminal Prompt

How your agent might be working against you

May 15 • Michael

Shorts: The AI Maturity Arc

A brief framework to measure adoption

May 4 • Michael

April 2026

Shorts: What Your Agent Shouldn't Read

Stop feeding it lockfiles

Apr 30 • Michael

Codebase Cartography

Charting paths for your agents

Apr 24 • Michael

Frontmatter Bullets

A template for reliable agent skill routing

Apr 15 • Michael

Lobster Gating

Trust but verify with OpenClaw's Lobster plugin

Apr 4 • Michael

March 2026

Shorts: Encoding Correctness

Pull the thread

Mar 30 • Michael

Agentic Context is King

Managing context with skills and sub-agents

Mar 19 • Michael

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January 2026

Shifting Baselines

How quality degrades without anyone noticing

Jan 17 • Michael

September 2025

Story Memory: An Agentic Programming Pattern

Preventing rework with a little extra planning

Sep 24, 2025 • Michael

August 2025

Avoiding FGA's Tuple Hell

Taming tuple explosions in Fine-Grained Authorization

Aug 12, 2025 • Michael

July 2025

From Test Suites to Outreach

My initiation into Partner-led growth

Jul 30, 2025 • Michael