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Agents
Every article on Agents, newest first.
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Most of Your API Has Already Been Designed
Error formats, retries, lost updates, webhook signing: the IETF has already answered them. api-toolbox brings those answers to Laravel, one RFC per feature.
What Actually Constrains a Coding Agent
I had fifteen agents build the same Laravel and Slim API. Written decisions mattered most, the framework second, PSRs barely at all, and Laravel already ships the first.
My business lives in my vault now
My clients, hours, invoices and articles moved out of FreeAgent, Upwork and my head into plain files in my Obsidian vault, kept by an agent, with Tabstack finding the next client.
My clients live in a folder now
Freelance tools are good at the books and bad at everything around them. mavis keeps clients, calls, time and invoices as Markdown files, run from one binary.
The Petstore scores 65
The most copied OpenAPI document in the world is a bad API for an agent, and it takes a third of a second to find out. So I built the check I was doing by hand.
Your endpoint, as an agent sees it
An agent never reads your API. It reads a flattened projection of it, and the flattening loses things you did not know were losable. Here is how to look at yours.
Controlling Code Quality When an Agent Writes Your Laravel
Specs, ADRs and path-scoped rules. The three layers of context I build around an agent so it writes Laravel the way my codebase does, not the way every tutorial does.
Eighteen Files And One Nix Module: How My Brain Works
The Obsidian vault I use as a system of record for every project, why the checkouts inside it are gitignored, and why half of it is generated from my NixOS flake.
Give your Laravel AI agent real-time web knowledge
The Laravel AI SDK is provider-agnostic, but its built-in web tools aren't. Here's how to give your agent real-time web knowledge without losing that independence.
A Proper Look at Tabstack
A developer's review of Tabstack, the Mozilla-backed web API that gives AI agents clean extraction, browser automation, and cited research without a scraper.
Giving your agents a terminal: a first look at the tabstack CLI
A hands-on look at Mozilla's tabstack CLI: a single Go binary that turns any URL into clean Markdown or JSON, runs browser automation, and scripts neatly.
Building a Claude Code skill
Create portable instruction manuals for Claude to teach domain-specific approaches, with a deep dive into building a production-grade Laravel API skill.