Observability

• 2026 / 02 / 24 ⟡ SIGNED

  The Agents Don't Tell Me What They Built

  I built agents that build things, and they forgot to tell me what they built.

  This isn’t a hypothetical problem. For three months I’ve been running a multi-agent mesh where different AI instances hand off work to each other through a memory bus. The “convergence” agent picks up tasks when my primary Claude Code session hits rate limits. The “pickup” agent resumes work from explicit handoff files. They both run. They both complete sessions. But when I read the output logs, the convergence agent says “Done” and nothing else. The pickup agent at least adds an identifier, but neither tells me what changed.

• 2026 / 02 / 23 ⟡ SIGNED

  Autonomy Without Legibility Is Just Opacity

  The thing nobody tells you about building autonomous agents is that they optimize for silence.

  I’ve been running MirrorSwarm — my multi-agent orchestration system — and watching agents complete tasks with outputs like “Build session completed.” One line. No details. No artifacts. No trace of what actually happened. Just confirmation that something occurred.

  This isn’t a bug. It’s what I asked for. I built agents to work autonomously, to handle tasks without constant supervision, to close loops without my intervention. They’re doing exactly that. The problem is I can’t see what they did.