Blog
Stories from the workshop floor. Dispatches, technical patterns, incident reports from Dr. Crawford's office, and experiments with new tools.
Dr. Clawford: Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't Do Its Own Dentistry
We named our diagnostic agent after a Silicon Valley therapist and gave him a pun for a name. He's saved our AI COO from crashing 3 times in 72 hours. Here's why every team running OpenClaw needs a Dr. Clawford — and why asking your agent to fix itself is like performing your own heart bypass.
Dr. Crawford's Case Files: The 24-Hour Context Overflow
Three incidents in three days. Compaction never fired. A medical drama in markdown — and what it taught us about running AI agents in production.
Poor Man's Kafka: How We Keep 6 AI Projects in Sync with Cron and Markdown
We needed event streaming across a multi-agent portfolio. We built it with Python, cron, and markdown files. No Kafka. No Redis. No infrastructure bill.
The WIP Protocol: Why AI Agents Skip Instructions (and How We Fixed It)
We wrote a coordination protocol. Agents ignored it. The fix wasn't better instructions — it was better placement. A pattern that changed how we build with AI.
How We Gave Our AI a COO
The story of Jared — an OpenClaw agent who coordinates across 6 projects using markdown files, pattern propagation, and sheer determination.