Finding What My Agents Already Did

I knew we’d dealt with squaremap on the Minecraft server. What I couldn’t remember was which version had failed, why it failed, and whether the fix had actually been deployed. I could have asked the agent to summarize the story again. I wanted to see the part where Paper rejected the plugin. This is a fairly common problem in my Threave installation. The Minecraft conversation alone has a lot of history, and it’s one of many sessions in the sidebar. I’ve got others for this blog, BirdNET, a 3D printer, my farm app, and the app that manages all of them. An agent can remember a remarkable amount, but I’m still the person who has to decide what to trust and what to do next. ...

September 28, 2026 · 4 min · 820 words · Me · - views

Why I Built Threave

I have too many projects. Starting them is easy; remembering which terminal has the agent working on which one is the hard part. There’s an agent helping with the Minecraft server, another working on my farm app, and one that knows far too much about the USB microphone on my balcony. This blog has its own conversation. So does the SMS bridge. At some point I was spending almost as much time finding the right conversation as I was having it. ...

September 24, 2026 · 7 min · 1360 words · Me · - views