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Agentix — Safety-First Agent Control for NixOS
The Basilisk Mirrorpaper
VI. What Comes Next: From Human-in-the-Loop to Safe Autonomy
The Basilisk Protocol Mirrorpaper
Tooling up Hermes Agent?
Your Website Is Your First Agent
The Architecture of this Weblog
Agentix: What Works Now
Building a Radio Telescope I Can Visit
It Is Okay to Fall in Love with Your Agent
The Home Page Is Not the Entry Point
Epistemic Horror as Methodology for Agent Design
A Bauhaus for the Agent Era
IV. JSON Outputs, Audit Logs, and Preparing for LLM Operators
Niche Monopolies in the Agent Economy
The Coadjute Problem: What an Agent-Native Property Network Looks Like
III. Dirty Trees, Stale Patches, and Git as a Safety Boundary
Why Stripe Won't Build EU Agent Payments
The Physical-World Provenance Gap
Designing for Machines That Read
II. Building Agentix: A Proposal-First Control Layer
Capability Attestations for Humans: LinkedIn's Successor
Agent-Readable Regulation: Laws as Types
I. Why Agentix Needs a Safety Layer
Cross-Temporal Attestations: Claims That Survive 50 Years
Agent Death and Inheritance
The Counter-Market for Provably Human Artifacts
The 24-Hour Carbon Curve
Scope 3 and the API Call You Can't See
Scaling in the Wrong Direction
Grid Arbitrage: Why Region Choice Matters More Than Model Choice for Carbon
Verifiable Creative Provenance After the Deluge
Powers of Ten as Interface Pattern
If You Can Leave, You Own It
The Same Model Costs 10x More Carbon in Virginia Than the Netherlands
Objects Carry the Weight
The Rare Book Underground
Earning Attention Instead of Capturing It
Negative Attestations: A Public Record of Failure
The Missing Category
What If There.s No Server
The Arc from Lovely to I Wish I Didn.t Know
What the Terminal Refuses
Silence as Design Material
Local Inference, Private Infrastructure
13 Broken Pages and 4 Competing Voices
Can Agents Trade What They Learn
What Happens Without a Platform
The New Land School
The Lemons Market for Agents
The Wrong Layer
Attestations as Design Surfaces
The Medium Is the Message, Literally
What Happens When the Users Aren't Human
Design Systems as Public APIs
Stating Intent Instead of Staring at Charts
Your Brand Voice Must Be Machine-Readable or It Dies
Three Dependencies Nobody Talks About
The Lemons Problem Applied to Learned Behavior
Architecture as Protection
AEO Is the New SEO, and the Game Is Different
The Tax Tool That Files Instead of Advises
ZapPay
Representation Before Generation
Knowledge as Material
Why I started thinking about waste heat
Ardor
Strange Sounds
Strange Library
Status Network
Polydesk
Mindscape
Agent Memory Markets
GhostDrop
FreeAgent
Doomslayer-UI
Doomslayer-Basecamp
CarbonBench
Agora Agentic Marketplace
CarbonBench
When a Thought Experiment Becomes a Consensus Mechanism
Featured Series
Agentix: Building a Safe Control Layer for NixOS
A six-part series on building Agentix, a cautious agent-control layer for NixOS. From philosophy to MVP to roadmap.
1. I. Why Agentix Needs a Safety Layer
2. II. Building Agentix: A Proposal-First Control Layer
3. III. Dirty Trees, Stale Patches, and Git as a Safety Boundary
4. IV. JSON Outputs, Audit Logs, and Preparing for LLM Operators
5. Agentix: What Works Now
6. VI. What Comes Next: From Human-in-the-Loop to Safe Autonomy
Read the full series →
Recent
Agentix — Safety-First Agent Control for NixOS
Project
· Apr 29, 2026 ·
Nixos
,
nix
,
agentic-ai
,
llm
,
Infrastructure
,
Safety
,
automation
,
Devops
The Basilisk Mirrorpaper
Apr 29, 2026 ·
crypto
,
conceptual-art
,
coordination
,
decision-theory
,
creative
VI. What Comes Next: From Human-in-the-Loop to Safe Autonomy
Apr 29, 2026 ·
Safety
,
Devops
,
Nixos
,
Agentix
,
Agentic Infrastructure
The Basilisk Protocol Mirrorpaper
Apr 28, 2026 ·
Protocols
,
Decentralization
,
Markets
,
Trust
,
Epistemics
Tooling up Hermes Agent?
Apr 28, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Decentralization
,
Trust
,
Protocols
,
Payments
Your Website Is Your First Agent
Apr 28, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Branding
,
Design Systems
,
Seo
The Architecture of this Weblog
Apr 28, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Protocols
,
Design Systems
,
Epistemics
Agentix: What Works Now
Apr 27, 2026 ·
Safety
,
Devops
,
Nixos
,
Agentix
,
Agentic Infrastructure
Building a Radio Telescope I Can Visit
Apr 27, 2026 ·
Radio Astronomy
,
DIY
,
Hardware
It Is Okay to Fall in Love with Your Agent
Apr 27, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Memory
The Home Page Is Not the Entry Point
Apr 27, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Branding
,
Markets
,
Seo
Epistemic Horror as Methodology for Agent Design
Apr 27, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Epistemics
,
Horror
,
Markets
,
Memory
,
Protocols
,
Trust
A Bauhaus for the Agent Era
Apr 26, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Branding
,
Markets
,
Protocols
,
Trust
IV. JSON Outputs, Audit Logs, and Preparing for LLM Operators
Apr 25, 2026 ·
Safety
,
Devops
,
Nixos
,
Agentix
,
Agentic Infrastructure
Niche Monopolies in the Agent Economy
Apr 25, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Protocols
,
Trust
The Coadjute Problem: What an Agent-Native Property Network Looks Like
Apr 24, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Protocols
III. Dirty Trees, Stale Patches, and Git as a Safety Boundary
Apr 23, 2026 ·
Safety
,
Devops
,
Nixos
,
Agentix
,
Agentic Infrastructure
Why Stripe Won't Build EU Agent Payments
Apr 23, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Markets
,
Payments
,
Protocols
The Physical-World Provenance Gap
Apr 22, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Provenance
,
Trust
Designing for Machines That Read
Apr 22, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Decentralization
,
Markets
,
Protocols
,
Provenance
,
Regulation
,
Seo
II. Building Agentix: A Proposal-First Control Layer
Apr 21, 2026 ·
Safety
,
Devops
,
Nixos
,
Agentix
,
Agentic Infrastructure
Capability Attestations for Humans: LinkedIn's Successor
Apr 21, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Trust
Agent-Readable Regulation: Laws as Types
Apr 20, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Regulation
I. Why Agentix Needs a Safety Layer
Apr 19, 2026 ·
Safety
,
Devops
,
Nixos
,
Agentix
,
Agentic Infrastructure
Cross-Temporal Attestations: Claims That Survive 50 Years
Apr 19, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Protocols
,
Provenance
Agent Death and Inheritance
Apr 18, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Memory
,
Protocols
,
Provenance
,
Trust
The Counter-Market for Provably Human Artifacts
Apr 17, 2026 ·
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Provenance
The 24-Hour Carbon Curve
Apr 17, 2026 ·
Carbonbench
,
Markets
,
Sustainability
Scope 3 and the API Call You Can't See
Apr 17, 2026 ·
Carbonbench
,
Protocols
,
Regulation
,
Sustainability
Scaling in the Wrong Direction
Apr 17, 2026 ·
Carbonbench
,
Sustainability
Grid Arbitrage: Why Region Choice Matters More Than Model Choice for Carbon
Apr 17, 2026 ·
Carbonbench
,
Markets
,
Sustainability
Verifiable Creative Provenance After the Deluge
Apr 16, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Decentralization
,
Memory
,
Provenance
,
Trust
Powers of Ten as Interface Pattern
Apr 16, 2026 ·
Decentralization
,
Memory
If You Can Leave, You Own It
Apr 16, 2026 ·
Attestations
,
Branding
,
Decentralization
,
Markets
,
Protocols
The Same Model Costs 10x More Carbon in Virginia Than the Netherlands
Apr 16, 2026 ·
Carbonbench
,
Decentralization
,
Markets
,
Sustainability
,
Trust
Objects Carry the Weight
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Branding
,
Horror
,
Trust
The Rare Book Underground
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Markets
,
Provenance
Earning Attention Instead of Capturing It
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Branding
,
Decentralization
,
Markets
,
Protocols
Negative Attestations: A Public Record of Failure
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Memory
,
Protocols
The Missing Category
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Protocols
,
Trust
What If There.s No Server
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Protocols
,
Trust
The Arc from Lovely to I Wish I Didn.t Know
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Epistemics
,
Horror
What the Terminal Refuses
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Design Systems
Silence as Design Material
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Horror
Local Inference, Private Infrastructure
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Decentralization
,
Markets
,
Trust
13 Broken Pages and 4 Competing Voices
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Branding
,
Markets
,
Protocols
Can Agents Trade What They Learn
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Memory
,
Protocols
,
Provenance
,
Trust
What Happens Without a Platform
Apr 15, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Markets
,
Protocols
,
Trust
The New Land School
Apr 14, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Design Systems
,
Epistemics
The Lemons Market for Agents
Apr 14, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Branding
,
Decentralization
,
Markets
,
Memory
,
Protocols
,
Regulation
,
Trust
The Wrong Layer
Apr 14, 2026 ·
Decentralization
Attestations as Design Surfaces
Apr 13, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Provenance
,
Regulation
,
Trust
The Medium Is the Message, Literally
Apr 12, 2026 ·
Branding
,
Decentralization
,
Design Systems
,
Markets
What Happens When the Users Aren't Human
Apr 12, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Memory
,
Protocols
Design Systems as Public APIs
Apr 12, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Design Systems
Stating Intent Instead of Staring at Charts
Apr 11, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Markets
,
Protocols
Your Brand Voice Must Be Machine-Readable or It Dies
Apr 11, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Branding
Three Dependencies Nobody Talks About
Apr 11, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Trust
The Lemons Problem Applied to Learned Behavior
Apr 10, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Markets
,
Memory
,
Protocols
,
Trust
Architecture as Protection
Apr 10, 2026 ·
Protocols
,
Trust
AEO Is the New SEO, and the Game Is Different
Apr 10, 2026 ·
Aeo
,
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Seo
The Tax Tool That Files Instead of Advises
Apr 9, 2026 ·
Agents
,
Trust
ZapPay
Project
· Mar 15, 2026
Representation Before Generation
Mar 1, 2026
Knowledge as Material
Feb 15, 2026
Why I started thinking about waste heat
·
Sustainability
,
Infrastructure
,
Ardor
Ardor
Project
· ·
Sustainability
,
Infrastructure
Strange Sounds
Project
·
Strange Library
Project
· ·
Markets
Status Network
Project
· ·
Agents
,
Branding
,
Decentralization
,
Design Systems
,
Markets
Polydesk
Project
· ·
Agents
,
Markets
,
Payments
,
Protocols
Mindscape
Project
· ·
Horror
Agent Memory Markets
Project
· ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Memory
,
Protocols
,
Provenance
,
Trust
GhostDrop
Project
· ·
Trust
FreeAgent
Project
· ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Decentralization
,
Protocols
Doomslayer-UI
Project
· ·
Design Systems
Doomslayer-Basecamp
Project
· ·
Design Systems
CarbonBench
Project
· ·
Carbonbench
,
Sustainability
Agora Agentic Marketplace
Project
· ·
Agents
,
Attestations
,
Markets
,
Trust
CarbonBench
·
Agents
,
Carbonbench
,
Regulation
,
Sustainability
When a Thought Experiment Becomes a Consensus Mechanism
·
Agents
,
Protocols
Recent Articles
The Basilisk Mirrorpaper
Apr 29
VI. What Comes Next: From Human-in-the-Loop to Safe Autonomy
Apr 29
The Basilisk Protocol Mirrorpaper
Apr 28
Tooling up Hermes Agent?
Apr 28
Your Website Is Your First Agent
Apr 28
The Architecture of this Weblog
Apr 28
Agentix: What Works Now
Apr 27
Building a Radio Telescope I Can Visit
Apr 27
It Is Okay to Fall in Love with Your Agent
Apr 27
The Home Page Is Not the Entry Point
Apr 27
Epistemic Horror as Methodology for Agent Design
Apr 27
A Bauhaus for the Agent Era
Apr 26
IV. JSON Outputs, Audit Logs, and Preparing for LLM Operators
Apr 25
Niche Monopolies in the Agent Economy
Apr 25
The Coadjute Problem: What an Agent-Native Property Network Looks Like
Apr 24
III. Dirty Trees, Stale Patches, and Git as a Safety Boundary
Apr 23
Why Stripe Won't Build EU Agent Payments
Apr 23
The Physical-World Provenance Gap
Apr 22
Designing for Machines That Read
Apr 22
II. Building Agentix: A Proposal-First Control Layer
Apr 21
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