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Factor-E
Visualization becomes a projection, not an authority
The orchestration graph can be rendered through LangGraph-compatible views while the canonical mission record remains the system of record.
Ezra Ter Linden / Independent experiments
Serious curiosity.
Useful mayhem.
AI systems, software experiments, and ideas that escaped the notebook. The work, the wrong turns, and what comes next.
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01 / The experiments
Follow a thread.
Each project has a question at its center.
Open one to see where it leads.
Umbrella initiative
Factor-E
3 field notes · 2 write-upsWhat changes when the product is no longer the code, but the factory that produces outcomes?
ActiveOpen project
Coordination layer
SuperSkippy
2 field notes · 1 write-upCan an AI partner become a durable command layer without taking authorship away from the human?
EvolvingOpen project
Observability surface
SkippyScope
2 field notes · 1 write-upHow do we make the reasoning and disagreement inside an agent system inspectable?
PrototypeOpen project
Agent organization
Merry Band
2 field notes · 1 write-upCan a portable crew of specialized agents work as a disciplined organization rather than a prompt-shaped blob?
ActiveOpen project
AI control plane
Kontrolr
2 field notes · 1 write-upWhere should policy, tools, permissions, memory, and model routing live?
DesignOpen project
Private context vault
Tessera
2 field notes · 1 write-upHow can personal context become useful without becoming somebody else's permanent asset?
ConceptOpen project
Learning world
Orchestrati
2 field notes · 1 write-upCan people learn agent orchestration through puzzles, narrative, and systems that push back?
ConceptOpen project
02 / Across the lab
A record of the detours.
A shared chronology across the projects.
Planning
SuperSkippy
Mission authority is made explicit
The coordination plan preserves one canonical record while treating external graph tooling as optional and read-only.
Visualization
SkippyScope
Two levels of orchestration visibility
Mission topology and live execution state are separated so each can remain legible.
Organization
Merry Band
The Barneys join the crew
Disposable worker agents provide bounded parallel capacity beneath accountable specialist agents.
Evaluation
Kontrolr
The harness joins the trust boundary
Sandboxing, recovery, tool semantics, and state handling are treated as part of the governed system.
03 / On the page
Notes from the work.
Field notes and longer arguments, connected to the work that prompted them.
The factory becomes the product
Why orchestration, policy, context, and verification are becoming more strategically important than any single generated artifact.
Factor-E
Continuity without counterfeit memory
What durable partnership requires beyond context-window accumulation.
SuperSkippy
Observability is more than telemetry
Why an agent system needs a legible social and decision layer, not only traces.
SkippyScope
04 / Longer thinking
Essays.
Essay
When software stops waiting for humans
We built interfaces for human eyes because humans were the actors. As agents become the operating surface, the assumptions beneath product design begin to move.
Read moreEssay
When code becomes abundant, judgment becomes the bottleneck
Cheap production does not remove engineering. It moves the scarce work into specification, context, verification, and the design of systems that can fail without taking the building with them.
Read more05 / A spanner in the works
Monk-e-Wrenched.
06 / Behind the work
Built by a curious human.
I’m Ezra Ter Linden, a systems architect and engineering leader exploring what happens when AI becomes part of how we build and operate software.
This is the notebook: experiments, architectural turns, unfinished ideas, and lessons worth carrying into the next thing. The project repositories can stay private while the thinking finds a wider audience.
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