Essays

Writing on agent-native infrastructure.

• Agent-Native Tooling — VisionWhy agents need different primitives than humans — and what agent-native tooling looks like.2026-04-01
• Agent IdentityThe foundational missing layer in agent infrastructure: operational identity, authority modeling, and the full user-to-action delegation chain.2026-04-10
• Agent AuthenticationThe wild west of API keys and OAuth workarounds, the security and compliance failures of plain secret access, and the two questions nobody's answering.2026-04-22
• Agent Secret ManagementWhy environment variables are the wrong primitive for agent secrets, the concrete failure modes they produce, and the emerging patterns converging on proxy-based credential injection.2026-04-22
• Agent PaymentsWhy giving an AI agent a credit card is the wrong answer, what x402, AP2, and MPP get right, and the open questions the industry hasn't faced yet.2026-05-28