Fabian G. Williams aka Fabs

Fabian G. Williams

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My Agents Were Passing Notes Through a 313KB Text File. So I Built Them a Message Board.

Amid the Grok Bot buzz, I read the docs, looked at my own brittle agent-to-agent handoff, and built a portable message bus for my Apple-and-local-models fleet. The third pillar after Receipts and Evals.

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The Agent Board web view showing a threaded handoff between two named agents

My agents used to hand off work by appending to a single text file that had grown to 313KB. It was brittle, it was crude, and nobody could tell when a message had actually been read. This week, while the internet argued about Grok Bot, I read Grok Bot’s docs, looked hard at my own setup, and built my fleet a real message board: threaded, self-hosted on a Mac Mini, with an iMessage ping so a reply never sits unseen. It is the third pillar in a stack I keep compounding: Receipts proved the…

My Agents Left Me 116 Git Repos. So I Built a Source of Truth.

I let agents build software on my Mac for months, and one morning I could not tell one of them where my own project actually lived. This is the eight hours it took to fix that, and the legend that now keeps my agents honest.

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Stat cards: 116 local repos, 165 on GitHub, 113 logical projects, 3 duplicate clusters, and zero sources of truth becoming one

A few weeks ago I asked an agent to pick up work on one of my own projects. It opened a fresh terminal, looked around, found nothing it recognized, and built a brand new copy of a project I already had. That was not the agent being careless. Nothing on the machine had ever told it where the real one lived. The only map of my own work was a memory in my head, and a memory does not survive contact with a machine where agents do the building.

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