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We sped up the code with agents, then the specs with Phone a Friend. Now the queue is in front of end-to-end testing, so two agent skills write and run a human-readable test plan, and a small service shows the results to the people who sign them off.
I had become the postman between my agents and the business, so I built a small MCP service that lets agents ask people directly and took myself out of the loop.
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For when your agent would rather ask than guess. A small MCP server that lets your agent ask people questions through a link.
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We sped up the code with agents, then the specs with Phone a Friend. Now the queue is in front of end-to-end testing, so two agent skills write and run a human-readable test plan, and a small service shows the results to the people who sign them off.
I had become the postman between my agents and the business, so I built a small MCP service that lets agents ask people directly and took myself out of the loop.
A self-hosted memory store I own end to end, so my agents' working context survives the loss of any account, vendor or machine, and nothing goes down a memory hole unless I put it there.