uses
What I actually use.
Specific tool names withheld where they don't matter. The patterns travel; the substrate is incidental.
operating
Tooling shell
A handful of slash commands wired to my own pipeline. Most days I do not type a git command directly.
Editor
Whatever stays out of the way. The agents read the code more than I do, in volume terms.
Terminal
tmux + a small set of muscle-memory aliases. Boring, fast.
platform substrate
Kubernetes
On-prem cluster, manageable. Argo CD for delivery. Helm where it earns its place.
Vault
Secrets, identity, audit. The control plane both humans and agents speak.
CI runners
Self-hosted. Per-agent identity. Narrow scope per workflow.
models
Frontier model APIs
A small set, called by role. I keep the prompts thin and the workflows thick.
Persistent memory file
The single most leveraged piece of infrastructure. Loaded into every session.
analog
Notebook
Plain. Lined. The decisions go here first, then into the ADRs.
Pen
Whatever the airport had.