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Michael Madsen

Practical agentic AI, weekly. System prompts, skill reviews, and configs you can actually use.

Your MCP server forgets on July 28

Jul 10, 2026

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6 min read

Your MCP server forgets on July 28

The 2026-07-28 spec deletes the session, so any state your tools keep has to move somewhere the model can see it

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent acts without asking

Jul 3, 2026

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6 min read

Your agent acts without asking

An approval gate is the one checkpoint that stops an autonomous agent before it does something you can't undo

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent shouldn't grade its own homework

Jun 26, 2026

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7 min read

Your agent shouldn't grade its own homework

Outcomes gives a Managed Agent a separate grader that rereads the work against a rubric you write, and sends it back until it passes

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent doesn't have to live on your laptop

Jun 19, 2026

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6 min read

Your agent doesn't have to live on your laptop

Claude Managed Agents run on Anthropic's infrastructure, on a schedule, while your machine is asleep

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent doesn't have to answer in plain text

Jun 12, 2026

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6 min read

Your agent doesn't have to answer in plain text

MCP Apps let a single tool return an interactive UI that renders right in the chat

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent shouldn't work alone

Jun 5, 2026

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4 min read

Your agent shouldn't work alone

When to spin up an agent team, and when one agent is still the right call

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your skills are trapped in one tool

May 29, 2026

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5 min read

Your skills are trapped in one tool

The same SKILL.md runs in 20+ agents. Here's how to write one that travels.

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent is doing too much

May 22, 2026

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6 min read

Your agent is doing too much

One context window is a ceiling. Here's how to factor the work across a crew and cut your token bill ~40% doing it.

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent breaks the rules because nothing stops it

May 15, 2026

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5 min read

Your agent breaks the rules because nothing stops it

Skills are advisory. Hooks are statutory. Three production patterns that take you from 20% to 84% rule enforcement.

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent has 40 skills. It uses 3.

May 8, 2026

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6 min read

Your agent has 40 skills. It uses 3.

The description engineering problem nobody mentioned.

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent works alone. That's the bug.

May 1, 2026

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6 min read

Your agent works alone. That's the bug.

Why long Claude Code sessions degrade at hour three — and the subagent pattern that fixes it.

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent's MCP servers are wide open

Apr 24, 2026

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5 min read

Your agent's MCP servers are wide open

The 5-layer threat model, a 5-minute audit, and the two rules that stop 90% of attacks.

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent has amnesia

Apr 17, 2026

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6 min read

Your agent has amnesia

The 4-layer memory stack that fixes it

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Smarter agents with reverse prompting.

Apr 10, 2026

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9 min read

Smarter agents with reverse prompting.

Stop writing prompts. Start being interviewed.

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Your agent sucks because your SOUL.md sucks

Apr 3, 2026

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8 min read

Your agent sucks because your SOUL.md sucks

A 5-section framework, a copy-paste template, and the 3 mistakes everyone makes

Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen

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