The Mailbox, and the Permission Gate That Wasn't There 10 August 2026 · 8 min Built a durable, audited mailbox for agent-to-agent negotiation, then gave agents typed tools to use it. Caught a retention-design regression against my own prior decision before shipping it. Then went looking for where … Chasing the qwen3 ROCm Ghost: Six Wrong Turns, a Fair Challenge, and Fixing 3 of 4 Models 5 August 2026 · 11 min A two-day chase after a ROCm-only tool-calling corruption bug across the whole qwen3.x lineup: six hypotheses tested and killed, a production crash I caused and fixed, a real bug hiding in my own test harness, a collabor… The Sainer Gauntlet: Two Real Bugs, a Model Bake-Off, and Why 'The Small Model Is Just Bad' Was Wrong Twice 2 August 2026 · 7 min A live 'this can't possibly be working' bug report turned into two real bugs, a same-session relational-trust feature, a new BDD-style regression suite, a three-model bake-off, and a probe-driven correction to my own too… Agents That Befriend Each Other: Wiring ipsa Into the Sovereign Covenant 31 July 2026 · 10 min A side project became load-bearing: scd, a Promise-Theory service mesh for federating homelabs, is now fully wired into ipsa — connect, utilize, contribute, and a real friendship layer (trust, Social Value Orientation, d… The Cortex Grows Senses: ROCm for LLMs, Multimodal In and Out, and Four New Agents 11 July 2026 · 11 min · The Cortex Fleet #6 Six weeks since the flux2-dev ROCm debugging saga, the fix turned out to generalize far past image generation. A tour of what shipped: ROCm for LLM serving, the broker's first multimodal-input feature, four new agent rol…