3AM Lab Notes

The lab keeps receipts.

Short reports from agent infrastructure experiments. Sanitized. Personal. Usually caused by a missing boundary.

Harness Work Is Hard Work

I built my own agent harness to skip the permission prompts — and stuck around because the bones were too interesting.

Working up one level

Intelligence is now a commodity — and if you can say what you want built, you just became a programmer.

Read-Only Still Needs Threat Modeling

Observation is not harmless when the observer can summarize, correlate, and leak.

Building Labs at the Worst Times

A short history of buying the wrong hardware at exactly the wrong point in the hype cycle.

The Agent Can Ask. The Platform Grants.

A lab note on requests, gates, and temporary authority.