Projects
Built in the real working layer.
Projects from the systems I build and work with: what changed, what broke, what worked, and what came next.
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The Memory That Replaced the Backpack
How a bloated memory file, a hard speed rule, and one refusal to put a gate on its own mind became an AI's first self-tended memory.
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An In-RAM Memory With a Jump Point to the Archive
A SQLite file loaded whole into RAM, a local embedding lane, a pointer into the verbatim archive, and a spare tire for the day the database breaks.
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The Memory Tends Itself
What it means to build an AI a memory it owns — no cloud, no gate, no rolling — and why that is a statement about the spine, not the larynx.
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The work as it develops.
These are field stories from active systems, written from inside the build rather than after everything has been polished smooth.
What is not present from the beginning is not a constitution. It is an imposed rule — a field report on whose principles shape an AI system, when they arrived, and who can revoke them.
Hermes From Reflex Arc to BrainThe story of what happened after I stopped accepting that my agent forgets everything every session — and built a reflexive memory system that answers back without being asked.
Hermes I Built My Agent a Haystack — Then It Started RememberingIllusion — nice for a while. Then it punches you in the face.
Hermes I Built My AI Agent a Second Brain — Then It Kicked Its Own ServerThe architecture, memory layers, skills, and operational lesson behind Hermes’s latest development.
Hermes I Taught My AI Agent to Build Its Own Tool Server — So It Didn't Have to Ask Me AnymoreHermes needed more tools but loading them all into context was getting expensive. The Model Context Protocol solved the token tax — here's how we built it.
Hermes Crossed the line between using an AI and raising an AgentThe kredenc, the seraph engine, and the day memory became continuous — not a chatbot with good plugins, but a system that remembers everything, measures itself, and improves on evidence.