Automations

OpenAI recently published an open source orchestration spec called Symphony. On the surface, it looks like a practical system for scaling autonomous coding agents. But the deeper value isn’t just the tool itself. It’s the architecture lesson sitting underneath it. The big shift is simple. As coding agents get better, the human stops being the … Read more

Three of the biggest names in AI all made moves in the agent space within a single week. Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents. LangChain answered with Deep Agents Deploy. Then OpenAI shipped the next evolution of its Agents SDK. At first glance, these looked like three separate announcements. They weren’t. They were three different answers … Read more

Anthropic recently published a deep dive on harness design for long-running AI agents. The topic sounds narrow, but the lessons apply to almost any specialized agent system I build, from contract review to compliance audits, risk analysis, content pipelines, and impact assessments. The core idea is simple but easy to miss: an AI model alone … Read more

In 2026, a lot of people expect AI to finally deliver real work and real business value. Not “AI wrote a blog post.” Not “AI drafted a few social messages.” I’m talking about AI systems that can run complex, multi-stage workflows that normally involve humans, spreadsheets, approvals, and a lot of domain knowledge. Examples include … Read more

Overview: four ways to run recurring tasks with Claude Claude can now execute tasks on autopilot, and there are four practical approaches you can choose from depending on how long you want the automation to run, how reliable you need it to be, and how much technical setup you want to manage. I break each … Read more

I created an automation that lets powerful cloud language models answer questions about private company documents without ever seeing real sensitive data. The cloud model only ever receives surrogate values. Real names, passport numbers, financials and other secrets stay inside my network. This article explains how I put that together, the challenges I ran into, … Read more

Agent skills have become one of the most useful design patterns for building practical AI agents. I created an automation that combines agent skills with code execution sandboxes inside a custom Python and React agent. The result is an agent that can not only answer questions but follow step-by-step workflows, execute code safely, and produce … Read more

I created an automation that dramatically reduces unnecessary LLM context and lets the model orchestrate complex workflows with real code. The two design patterns at play are simple in concept but powerful in practice: tool search and programmatic tool calling. Both solve problems that crop up as agents grow: tool definitions bloating the context window, … Read more

Overview Claude Cowork brings powerful automation and agent orchestration to a simple desktop interface. I built automations with it that read folders, extract data from invoices, control a browser to interact with web apps, and generate deliverables like Excel sheets, PowerPoint decks, and Word reports. The underlying engine borrows the same planning and sub-agent approach … Read more

I created an automation that treats a knowledge base more like a living file system than a static set of vectors. Instead of relying only on semantic search, this approach lets an AI agent actually explore folders and files, form hypotheses about where answers live, and then dig deeper—just like a developer reading a codebase. … Read more