Articles, notes and updates on the agent, the tools, and the craft of building software with AI.
macOS declines to describe about a quarter of the processes on an ordinary machine. Most monitors print a zero. Starf prints — and this is why that one character is the whole product.
Elyra has kept a local ledger of every model turn for a while. 0.9.37 turns it into recommendations — switch, pin, or keep for each routing tier — and stamps every agent commit with an Elyra-Cost git trailer showing what it took to produce.
For three days Askr correctly diagnosed a queue lane nothing was draining — and told only its own stderr. 1.6.0 moves that conclusion into the API and Prometheus, per lane.
Grove 1.7.0 adds one thing — ElyraSQL as a bundled, supervised service alongside PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis. Installing it turned up a connection bug that had made a year-old documentation claim about Rust's sqlx false, and fixing that is most of this release.
Most AI visibility tooling scores a fiction. Elyra Sjá 0.6.0 rebuilds GEO along the real path — can the crawlers get in, what does the extractor actually see, and does the engine cite you when a user asks?
Git records what changed. The reasoning lives in a Slack thread, a meeting nobody wrote up, or an AI session that gets compacted by Thursday. Elyra 0.9.36 gives architecture decisions a home in your repo — one ADR file per decision, versioned in git, and surfaced back to the agent every session.
When a natural-language filter drops a condition, Elyra DataGrid 0.7.0 says so on the page. Plus a plain-language summary of any filter, and an audit trail honest enough to admit what it cannot undo.
A terminal that tells one command from another — so a session becomes foldable, diffable, reviewable blocks instead of one long scrollback. Local AI on a per-command leash, pull request review without the browser, no account and no telemetry.
Extensions run inside your database process with all of its privileges. 0.6.0 adds a signed extension repository, a versioned ABI — and an honest note about where the lock doesn't reach yet.
Elyra 0.9.35 adds /thinking — a command that sets the reasoning effort level directly, listing only the levels your current model actually supports.