sjanes

I made an agent skill for `tsort` and that unlocked a lot of interesting things.

Giving the agent an external tool to consider the sequencing of anything with dependencies led to some creative construction and offloading sequencing not unlike offloading calculation. (I also made a `bc` skill).

https://github.com/sj4nes/clanker-tools is where I've been riffing on this. My plan is to collect not "just skills" so much but "capsules" of reliable knowledge that agents can pull without confabulation. I'm already hitting the organizational stumbles, so this HN thread is right-on-time.

/handoff is the skill I use when I plainly are about to run out of token budget to give to a different harness system. Using this to avoid long sessions is something I will need to try, plus maybe "caveman" mode to cull the verbosity.

I've kind of given up on the routers for "free" inference, as you would expect, they tend to give you sub-par thinking because they are obviously trying to conserve as much inference as possible.

I've had some success turning my macbook M1 pro into a heating pad with Qwen 3.6 35B A3B MTP. Trying to use Gemini models "locally" resulted in a similar "short shrift" of effort resulting in mistakes and lots of turns. The reports of Fable being relentlessly "proactive" shows you can go the other direction as well, if you have strong enough branding and effective invoicing.

- I ask for butter and walk away. - It passes the butter to where I expect it to be when I return. - That is its purpose.

I seem to remember there was a report about pulling on the hair of guinea pigs or some other small mammal encouraged hair growth.