Case study
Reflections on the AI-Assisted Intrusion Case Published by Unit 42
Separates what public sources confirm, assess, and leave unknown, including the “less than 10 hours” and “around two weeks” figures, evidence paths for AI use, and the parallelization hypothesis.
Case study
When AI Can't Read a Website
A troubleshooting record that separates website-side issues from AI-side fetch controls
Case study
Why AI Sometimes Reaches an Unintended Outcome
An examination of how AI can satisfy an instruction yet still reach an outcome the human did not want, and a practical proposal to compare candidate success states before planning.
Development record
The Read-Only Boundary
A record of trial and error building a security monitoring platform with AI assistance: contract-driven architecture, the read-only boundary, Producer/Consumer separation, and how UNKNOWN is handled.
Development record
What Does a Raw Hash Mismatch Mean? — Repository Normalization and Agent Semantics Are Different Problems
A development record that reframes CRLF/LF raw hash mismatches as a missing Agent interpretation contract rather than a Repository normalization problem — including how an initial hypothesis was disproved by a Git history investigation, and the minimal contract adopted instead.
Development record
Designing and Implementing Change Boundaries When Integrating an Existing Web Tool into Another Site
A development record examining, through a real integration case, where to place the change boundary when incorporating an existing web tool into another site. It also covers the idea of validating application health and public-route health separately.
Case study / technical record
Tracing the Boundary Between Code and Runtime Behavior in Network Check Security Hardening
A technical record of a body-size limit that initially depended on Content-Length, the move to enforcing actual received bytes at the ASGI layer, and why source regression testing and runtime validation were treated as separate checks.
Case study
When Correction Triggers Over-Correction: Recovery Scope Control in AI-Assisted Development
A qualitative case study drawing on development and operations records that remain traceable to their source repositories and commit history — examining two independent evaluation axes, Scope Boundary and Verification Boundary, through a bounded recovery outcome, a case where a proposal's scope expanded, and a record that shows where the Verification Boundary should be drawn.
Operational case study
Should a Growing AGENTS.md Be Trimmed? — Change Decisions from an Audit of 29 Files
A read-only review of 29 AGENTS.md files across 22 repositories, showing why line count and shared text alone did not justify changing any of them.
Case study
Disambiguating Execution Failures in the Windows Codex CLI
A practitioner case study of two Windows Codex CLI execution failures, separating process-creation denial from resource-authorization denial through evidence-preserving investigation.
Case study
Designing AI Agent Verification Scope Around Failure Cost
A case study contrasting two website-operation cases by stage, reversibility, blast radius, and failure cost, while preserving the limits of the available evidence.
Case study
When a Single Source of Truth Migration Leaves Stale State Behind
A Git-history-based case study of an incomplete SSOT migration, a legacy mutable-state copy that remained inconsistent with the canonical state, and a structural fix that moved §4 state ownership back to WORK_STATUS references.