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← All ArticlesTwo vendors, one standard: running a real upgrade with synthesis engineering
A real three-day upgrade with two AI vendors exposed the Built/Deployed Gap: controls and records that passed checks but never reached the running system.
The Decision Packet: batching AI agents' questions without rubber-stamping them
A synthesis engineering pattern for staying in command of AI agents at speed: collect every decision they owe you into one honest, reviewable page.
Why Synthesis Engineering Exists: Building Across AI Agent Runtimes, Not Around Them
Why synthesis engineering exists: model, runtime, and state portability across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw, without lock-in.
My AI executive assistant writes in its own voice. My AI chief of staff writes in mine.
Ragbot and Ragenie, EA AI and chief-of-staff AI: why my executive assistant agent writes in its own voice while my chief of staff agent writes in my voice.
What should survive when you change AI tools
Project state, methods, authority rules, coordination, and evidence: five things open agent infrastructure should preserve across AI tools and clients.
I gave my AI agents a chief-of-staff job description. The hard part was the org chart, not the code.
AI agents as chief of staff: how I encoded absence coordination, notification tiers, send gates, and silent-failure validators into open-source config.
I built the conformance validator Google's OKF repo didn't ship
Google's knowledge-catalog repo shipped no standalone OKF validator, so I built a checker for the format's three hard rules. Open-sourced as synthesis-okf.
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.