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My Steering Rules Hid a Bug for Three Months, Then Found It in an Hour
A wrong sentence in my always-on Cline rules ('there is no LVM event autoactivation on this host') loaded into every session for three months and quietly capped how deep any diagnosis could go. The same harness then c...
Auditing a Homelab With AI Agents: Personas, Four Waves, and an Adversarial Verifier
The architecture of a security-review system built from AI agent personas: a read-only auditor with a hard constraint list, a four-wave pipeline where each wave answers a question the previous one cannot, a checklist ...
Relaxing an Over-Zealous AI Guard: A Silent Abort, a Three-Character Bypass, and an Empty Rule List
My Cline PreToolUse hook was ending whole conversations with no error message, because a tool_call hook that returns cancel aborts the entire agent run and discards the reason on the way, rather than denying the singl...
Lessons That Arrive On Time: A Scored Corpus, and What Six Phases Actually Cost
Continuing from "When the Output Looks Right": building discernment into a coding agent. A dated lesson in a rules file is useless at the moment it matters, so I moved them into a scored corpus that injects the releva...
When the Output Looks Right: Why a Green Test Suite Stops You Looking
Anthropic's AI Fluency Index found that people get less critical exactly when an AI produces something polished: fact-checking drops 3.7 points and spotting missing context drops 5.2 points the moment code or document...
From One Agent to a Team: Async Loops, Multi-Agent Personas, and an Autonomy Envelope for Cline
The next step after steering a single coding agent is letting it run unattended and splitting it into specialised personas. Here is the honest, safety-first version: a GREEN/AMBER/RED action envelope that defines what...
Teaching Cline to Learn From My Corrections: Turning Conversation Steering Into Durable Rules
Self-learning AI agents promise to get smarter from every interaction. Here is the honest version for a coding agent like Cline: it does not retrain its own weights from your chats, it consolidates your corrections in...
How I Steer Cline With a Tiered Rules System, a Persona, and a Pre-Commit Hook That Stops Me Leaking My Homelab
A 700-line steering layer for Cline split into always-on rules and on-demand reference docs, a banned-words list that kills the AI smell, opsec rules that keep internal hostnames out of public commits, a single canoni...