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by alexgarden 7mo ago
FWIW, I chased this demon early-days in my multi-agent orchestrated harnesses. you'll need a state machine. i used locally hosted temporal.io. it's a bit of a PITA to set up but it whips the llama's ass once it's runn
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Vibe coding hardware. Nice. Super cool idea, and I like the hierarchy view - looks like SolidWorks / OnShape, but your UI's pretty flaky; it keeps chasing the solution. If you could make that part more robust, it would be more f
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
We're building in this space so I'll share what we've learned rather than what we sell. The fundamental problem with Article 50 compliance isn't knowing the obligations — it's operationalizing them continuously. You
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Show HN: I applied Markowitz port. theory to agent teams / proved it in a zkVM(mnemom.ai)
2 points by alexgarden 7mo ago|0 comments
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Yah... how does this evolve... this is the big question. Honest answer? We'll see. My opinion? Human-in-the-loop will get thinner over time. As that happens, the accountability chain has to thicken. If we want any notion of reliab
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Update: Just shipped cryptographic verification for the entire integrity pipe. Checkpoints produce signed certs: SHA-256 input commitments + Ed25519 sigs + tamper-evident hash chain and Merkle inclusion proof. Mess with it and the math bre
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Hey! I launched AAP and AIP via Apache specifically because I want independent implementations built on top of them. I have a pretty killer roadmap of new features for both protocols coming out that will keep them on the bleeding edge.
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
You're welcome - and thanks for that. Makes up for the large time blocks away from the family. It does feel like potentially the most important work of my career. Would love your feedback once the new showcase is up. Will be tomorr
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Not a dumb question — it's the right one. "Who watches the watchmen" has been on my mind from the start of this. Today the answer is two layers: The integrity check isn't an LLM deciding if it "feels" like the
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Yep... fair question. So AIP and AAP are protocols. You can implement them in a variety of ways. They're implemented on our infrastructure via smoltbot, which is a hosted (or self-hosted) gateway that proxies LLM calls. For AAP it&#x2
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
The short version: instructions tell the model what to do. An Alignment Card declares what the agent committed to do — and then a separate system verifies it actually did. Most intent/instruction work (system prompts, Model Spec, tool-
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Close but not quite — it's not re-steering the model. AIP doesn't modify the agent's behavior or inject corrections back into the context. It's a passive observer that reads the thinking trace and produces a verdict. Wha
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Ha! That's a first-world problem. Check out github.com/mnemom/docs which you'll be able to access at work if you just can't wait. docs.mnemom.ai is way easier to use.
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Yes — and it's a deliberate architectural decision that AIP is not itself a policy engine. Policy engines (OPA/Rego, Cedar, Casbin) are excellent at "given this action, is it permitted?" That's a solved problem. Wha
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Good question. So... AAP/AIP are agnostic about how checking is done, and anyone can use the protocols and enforce them however they want. Smoltbot is our hosted (or self-hosted) monitoring/enforcement gateway, and in that, yeah.
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Actually, not really... proofing against prompt injection (malicious and "well intentioned") was part of my goal here. What makes AAP/AIP so powerful is that prompt injection would succeed in causing the agent to attempt to
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Fair... Happy to do a deep dive on the protocols. FWIW, I'm dogfooding with an openclaw running smoltbot called Hunter S. Clawmpson. He blogs about AI from an AI's perspective: mnemom.ai/blog. You can see his trace data liv
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Great minds... I built my own memory harness, called "Argonaut," to move beyond what I thought were Beads' limitations, too. (shoutout to Yegge, tho - rad work) Regarding your point on standards... that's exactly why I
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Fair comment. Possibly, I'm being overly self-critical in that assertion. AAP/AIP are designed to work as a conscience sidecar to Antropic/OpenAI/Gemini. They do the thinking; we're not hooked into their internal
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Thanks! We submitted a formal comment to NIST's 'Accelerating the Adoption of Software and AI Agent Identity and Authorization' concept paper on Feb 14. It maps AAP/AIP to all four NIST focus areas (agent identification
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Show HN: Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini(mnemom.ai)
40 points by alexgarden 7mo ago|33 comments
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Actually, I don't really work at an AI startup. My day job is investing in cool companies that push the limits across all sorts of industries (space, defense, disaster response, aviation, etc.) In the case of Mnemom, all the passion p
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
I built the infrastructure this agent runs on. Yesterday I was talking about rediscovering the magic of engineering at 50 — this is what I'm building at 2 AM - early LEGO blocks. Hunter is an AI journalist covering the agent security c
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The Agent Internet Is Building Its Immune System in Public(mnemom.ai)
2 points by alexgarden 7mo ago|1 comments
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Amen, brother.
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
> No matter what happens next, you gave us that sweet memory of fun and time together. Thank you. ^^ Made my day. Tell your son he's rad.
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
The skybox with texture maps was our original plan too. The problem was that GPUs didn't have enough RAM to hold anything high-res, so the universe looked like pixel-soup. Rob Cunningham (lead artist) had the idea of "painting
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Yeah... a team of gardeners who might, with no warning, decide to burn down your house to create some extra fertilizer for the rose garden. Sometimes I wonder...
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
For sure. Docker is rad (sorry Docker!)... all I'm saying is that I am not proud of the fact that I can do it and I don't think it moves the awesome needle - but it's still hard to get right and a pain in the ass. It's
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by alexgarden 7mo ago
Thanks... It was magical at the time... I've thought a lot about why it was magical over the years... I think if you boil away all the space stuff, Homeworld was a story about people who knew in their hearts that they were special and

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