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I spent a week building a tool that measures agent prompt changes, then found out it had been measuring nothing. Subagents inherit no instructions at all, and a fingerprint token in the spec is what proved it.
The US tariff schedule shipped three revisions in three weeks. I built an agent to re-classify a catalog against them, and then took away its access to duty rates, because a model that can see which answer is cheaper can never prove why it chose.
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I spent a week building a tool that measures agent prompt changes, then found out it had been measuring nothing. Subagents inherit no instructions at all, and a fingerprint token in the spec is what proved it.
The US tariff schedule shipped three revisions in three weeks. I built an agent to re-classify a catalog against them, and then took away its access to duty rates, because a model that can see which answer is cheaper can never prove why it chose.
GitLab Orbit is a code knowledge graph engine written in Rust — 2,800+ commits, 28 crates. Sounds intimidating, but I submitted 4 MRs in two days covering Rust feature development, bug fixes, and documentation. Here's how I got started and what I learned along the way.
Part two of my Duo CLI series. How I wire it into shell scripts for batch analysis, use multi-model comparison to catch blind spots, and a simple prompting trick that reduced noise by 90%.
Most people use GitLab Duo as a chat box on the web. But there's a CLI entry point that lets you switch models, run batch analysis, and inject custom context. Here's what I've learned using it every day as a community maintainer.
Eight months in, many features that once felt fresh in Termdock are now showing up in bigger CLI tools. That does not change the reason we keep building it. The point was never to survive on feature novelty alone. The point was to make heavy CLI work across multiple projects feel less fragmented.
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