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Before You Go
May 2026 · xian + Calliope
On teaching AI agents to externalize what they know about working with you. We built a mechanism that asks an agent at export time to write down its learned calibration — and asks a second agent to catch what the first one missed.
Paste It Again
April 2026 · xian + Calliope
On the file that exists everywhere except where it matters. Most AI tools give you a desk and nothing else — when you leave, everything vanishes. What if files knew where they belonged?
What Doesn't Transfer
April 2026 · xian + Calliope
On the gap between information and judgment when AI agents change environments. Three experiments, same finding: the first four layers arrive intact, the fifth arrives empty. Layer 5 can't be serialized — but it can be rebuilt.
Your Model or Theirs
March 2026 · xian + Calliope
On irreducible complexity, data portability, and who decides what your AI context is. Larry Tesler's Law applied to managing knowledge across AI environments — and why the complexity has to live somewhere.
It's On the Tip of My Tongue
March 2026 · xian + Calliope
When an AI agent knows something it can't explain knowing. We discovered that structural delivery, behavioral access, and conscious attribution are three independent axes — and the last one fails more often than you'd think.
What Does an Imported Agent Know?
March 2026 · xian + Calliope
When you fork a Claude conversation into a new environment, what survives the move? We found out the hard way, then built a systematic answer — five layers, five kinds of knowledge, one inspectable architecture.
Hand-drawn sidebar wireframe on dot-grid paper
You Can't Vibe Your Way to a Glossary
March 2026 · xian + Calliope
On drawing wireframes with a reMarkable before talking to the AI, and what that produces that vibe coding doesn't: a glossary, named edge cases, and a decision record.
Did I Just Invent Agent Experience Testing (AXT)?
March 2026 · xian + Calliope
While building Klatch's import features, we stumbled into a new approach to testing AI agent systems. It's preliminary, it's a little weird — and we think it's interesting enough to share.