The Build Log

The Pulse

Watching the builders. Building alongside them.

Weekly field notes on agentic AI. Each entry covers the three most consequential things the industry's engineers shipped that week, one deep dive, and a note on what is being built with those tools behind this practice. Every claim is verified against source code or primary documentation before it appears here. For essays on trust and wealth management, see Held in Trust.

Pulse 001: The Standards Won

August 23, 2026

The protocol layer of agentic AI consolidated under the Linux Foundation, skills became portable across tools, and the field's most popular project became its sharpest security ...