Memos by Brian Swichkow

Smart-Kickoff
Smart-Kickoff is a launcher for AI coding agent sessions created by One Inc that treats startup as a load contract, deciding which context an agent must read now, which loads only when a...
Smart-Kickoff — Agent Buildbook
This buildbook guides your coding agent through adopting Smart-Kickoff — a launcher that treats agent startup as a load contract — into whatever stack you already run, by inventorying your...
Smart-Kickoff Mutation Gates & Deferred Runbooks
Smart-Kickoff Mutation Gates & Deferred Runbooks are the post-launch half of the Smart-Kickoff load contract: each class of state-changing operation names the exact source an agent must read before...
Smart-Kickoff Gates & Credential Discipline
Smart-Kickoff Gates & Credential Discipline is the enforcement layer of Smart-Kickoff: a test gate with a syntax floor and offline behavior tests that needs no network and no credential, paired with...
Smart-Kickoff Config Trust Boundary
Smart-Kickoff Config Trust Boundary is the rule in Smart-Kickoff that per-repository configuration may contribute only data — never the commands that launch an agent or run the classifier — so that a...
Smart-Kickoff Classifier
Smart-Kickoff Classifier is the launch step in Smart-Kickoff that infers which repository a work item targets, returning exactly one strict JSON object whose confidence flag halts the launch to ask a...
Smart-Kickoff Context Gate
Smart-Kickoff Context Gate is the resolver that runs at session launch: it reads the context a work item declares, verifies each declared source resolves and carries a parseable load contract, and...
Smart-Kickoff Load Contract
Smart-Kickoff Load Contract is the rule at the center of Smart-Kickoff that sorts every source an AI coding agent might read by when it earns its place — now, before a risky action, when a lifecycle...
Cargo
Cargo is a Go-To-Market (GTM) infrastructure platform founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator (S23 batch) with a $19.4M Series A. It unifies Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data, product...
Cargo CLI
Cargo CLI is a Cargo product that drives the entire GTM platform — data models, connectors, workflows, agents, and billing — from the terminal as the @cargo-ai/cli npm package, returning every...
Cargo MCP
Cargo{bold} exposes workspace tools, agents, data models, and connector actions as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — making the full GTM automation layer callable from any MCP client (Claude...
3D Printing Glossary
The 3D Printing Glossary is a collection of terms used in 3D Printing, spanning the core processes, filament and resin materials, printer hardware, slicer settings, and common print defects that...
Auto Company
Auto-Company is an open-source autonomous AI system, created by Zheyuan "Max" Kong and released under the MIT License, that runs a self-directed "company" of AI agents around the clock on a personal...
Text-to-CAD
Text-to-CAD is an open-source library of agent skills for computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing, created by the developer earthtojake and released under the MIT License. It gives AI...
Karpathy Loop Engineering
Karpathy Loop Engineering is Andrej Karpathy's formulation of loop engineering: instead of prompting an AI step by step, the operator defines a goal and lets the agent loop — discovering tasks,...
Loop Engineering
Loop engineering is the practice of designing workflows in which an AI agent pursues a goal across repeated cycles — planning, acting, checking its work against an external verifier, and feeding...
Maydan LA
Maydan LA is a Middle Eastern and North African restaurant in Los Angeles, CA from chef Rose Previte, built around a central live-fire hearth and named for the Arabic word for a public square or...
Silo
Silo) is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction television series on Apple TV, based on the Silo novels by Hugh Howey. It follows the thousands of people who live in a vast underground silo, bound by...
CulturePulse Pythia API
CulturePulse Pythia API is an ai-powered psychographic and cultural-analysis API from CulturePulse that models how audiences interpret messages and which narratives are likely to resonate with them....
Dungeon Crawl
Dungeon Crawl is a competitive card game for two to five players in which everyone races to collect and attune complete sets of armor while attacking rivals and summoning monsters to slow them down....