Ai-Agents

I build AI agents for a living, and the single most useful thing I’ve done for them is stop giving them big interfaces. No SDKs. No sprawling APIs. No MCP servers with twenty tools registered at boot. Instead I give them what Unix gave us forty years ago: small, sharp, isolated CLI tools they can compose. One job each. Text in, text out. That’s the whole methodology. This post is the short version of why. ...

A practical, opinionated guide to running an autonomous AI assistant on a dedicated home lab server — with proper isolation, network control, and custom tooling. Goals You want a dedicated, always-on Linux machine that runs an AI agent (OpenClaw) with the following properties: Isolated execution environment — The agent runs under a dedicated Linux user (agent-openclaw) with strict permission boundaries. It cannot escalate to root, cannot access other users’ data, and operates within well-defined filesystem and process boundaries. ...