methodology
8 articles“Not found” is not “does not exist”
An AI agent's 'not found' is not 'does not exist.' Five rules for proving absence with bounded reads, positive controls, and scoped negative claims.
Prompt discipline is engineering infrastructure
Prompt discipline is engineering infrastructure: a forbidden-phrase catalog, hooks, and enforcement that catch AI coding agents dressing shortcuts as judgment.
A compounding pattern catalog for AI slop
Why a methodology for detecting AI-generated content should keep the patterns it retires, not delete them. The shape of the catalog behind slopcheck.
Synthesis engineering needs a pedagogy, not just a methodology
A methodology tells practitioners what to do. A pedagogy forms judgment. What the Bauhaus teaches about growing synthesis engineering beyond its founders.
"All tests pass" is a warning, not a clearance
Why a green test suite after a schema change should trigger suspicion, not confidence. A verification methodology that catches what tests structurally cannot —
Managing AI agent skills at scale: a three-repo architecture
A three-repo architecture for managing public, private, and team AI agent skills with provenance tracking, drift detection, and synthesis merge — the first stan
The Synthesis Thinking Framework: A Practitioner's Guide
Five thinking modes for technical practitioners who work with AI agents daily. A detailed methodology with real examples from managing sixty concurrent AI colla
Synthesis Skills: install methodology directly into your AI workflow
22 open-source Agent Skills encoding synthesis coding and synthesis engineering methodology. One command installs code review, content quality, project manageme