The essays
Writing
One essay a week on the tokens-to-agents stack, written from inside a production build.
- 2026-08-07 AGENTS.md, DESIGN.md, SKILL.md The runtime layer: how intent actually reaches the agent.
- 2026-08-07 Delegation vs homework Why the whole stack beats any single piece of it.
- 2026-08-07 Design token vs CSS variable: the difference that decides what your agent knows A token is the platform-neutral source of truth; a CSS variable is one compiled output. The difference decides what your agent knows.
- 2026-08-07 JSON for MCP, Markdown for LLM The Indeed benchmark, read correctly.
- 2026-08-07 Spec-first, spec-anchored, spec-as-source Pick your level by the cost of drift, not by ambition.
- 2026-08-07 The 4,300 prototypes problem What happens after the agents start shipping, and why governance is the second half of machine-readable.
- 2026-08-07 This red means danger The semantic layer is where your design system stops being a paint store.
- 2026-08-07 Your naming convention is an API now Names used to be craft. Now they're the query surface.
- 2026-08-04 A token is not a color. It's a decision with a name. The three-tier idea that turns a palette into infrastructure.
- 2026-07-28 The 80 percent agent What a loose style guide gets you, and what it never will.