Tag: patterns

All the articles with the tag "patterns".

• The AI Chief of Staff Is a Fleet, Not an Agent

  14 May, 2026

  The AI Chief of Staff pattern is everywhere in May 2026 — and every implementation makes the same mistake. They build one agent that generates a morning brief. A real chief of staff is a fleet.

• The Enterprise MCP Pattern: Proxy, Aggregate, Host

  12 May, 2026

  There are 58 public MCP servers in the awslabs catalog covering cloud infrastructure, databases, AI/ML, and ops tooling. Here's the enterprise pattern: proxy them locally, then host the proxy behind a gateway so every developer in your org gets them without setup.

• The Missing Middle: Why AI Chiefs of Staff Fail Without Calendar Materialization

  10 May, 2026

  Every AI Chief of Staff tool tells you what matters. None of them answer 'when will I do it?' The gap between a morning brief and actual execution is calendar materialization — and without it, triage is noise with structure.

• The Meta-Tool Pattern: Teaching Your Agent to Discover Its Own Tools

  10 May, 2026

  The MCP token tax has a fix. The solution isn't fewer tools — it's a smarter way to load them. Here's the pattern.

• Building the MCP Proxy: What Broke and What I Changed

  10 May, 2026

  The proxy pattern from part two, built and debugged. Two things broke: a missing dependency that crashed startup silently, and a response format that made the model do unnecessary work.

• The MCP Proxy, Running

  10 May, 2026

  Part four of the MCP series. The proxy from part three is running in production. Here's what it actually looks like.

• The MCP Token Tax

  10 May, 2026

  MCP won the read path. The token tax is what happened next. And the write path still doesn't have an answer.

• Memories Fade. Skills Persist.

  9 May, 2026

  When an agent makes a mistake, you have two choices: write it down or encode it. One survives the next session. One doesn't.