#dark-factory

Pruning Agent Prompts: Why I Cut My Factory's Rules by 65%

Post-mortem fixes bloated my dark factory's agent prompts to 17,072 words in 30 days. See what happened when I cut 65% of the rules and moved them to code.

Agentic Security Scanning: What Our First Loop Found

How I built an autonomous security loop in Leaf with Trivy, Semgrep, and an examiner agent, and what its first 289 findings fixed in BrandCast.

Moneyball for AI Agents: Stop Buying Models, Buy Runs

After 15.8 billion tokens and 208,649 model turns in Leaf, SWE-bench and static price routers like LiteLLM optimize for the wrong thing. Buy runs, not models.

Why Giant Agent Skill Repos Won't Survive 2027

Interactive agent skills rely on progressive disclosure and human guardrails. My token data shows why unattended 2027 loops need radically smaller context.

Inside My Dark Software Factory: How Leaf Runs Locally

How I rebuilt Leaf as a local-first Level 5 dark software factory using adversarial validation, role-scoped WebSocket rooms, and deterministic CI/CD tasks.