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← all postsArgus and Hephaestus: Two AI Agent Teams, One Builds, One Inspects
How I built two teams of specialized subagents in Claude Code: Hephaestus delivers software, Argus hunts bugs. Roles, coordinators, how they cooperate, and when orchestration is overkill.
Context Engineering: Why Your Agent Gets Dumber in a Long Session
Three mechanisms of context degradation (lost in the middle, instruction dilution, growing cost) and four habits that keep the token budget under control: compacting, clean starts, subagents, and pointers instead of data.
An Agent Fixes E2E Tests: A Playwright + Claude Code Workflow Step by Step
How to build a workflow where an agent diagnoses failed e2e tests and opens a PR with a fix - plus the four agent mistake patterns you need to know before you trust it.
Multi-Agent Orchestration - When One Agent Is Enough
Level 10 on the Holak Scale is attractive for a CV, expensive to maintain. A skeptical take on agent teams: when you actually need many, when one well-configured agent wins, and how to spot orchestrating mediocrity.
The Trust Boundary - How to Actually Cross from 8 to 9 on the Holak Scale
The hardest jump on the Holak Scale isn't technical. Verifiability and reversibility as a framework, a readiness checklist, and two case studies - one team that made it, one that dropped back to 2.
A skill for filing bugs in Jira through Atlassian MCP
How to build a skill that turns your „hey, something's broken on checkout” into a complete Jira ticket - with evidence, dedupe, and without polluting the project. No autopilot agent, a deliberate human confirm in the middle.
How testers should evaluate agent output
Five dimensions for evaluating agent output, a checklist you can walk in fifteen minutes, and situations where you just send the result back without a lengthy debate.
First MCP for QA: search and fetch over evidence
How to start with MCP in QA from the simplest possible pair of tools - search and fetch over evidence. No autonomy, no loops, just a structure you can maintain.
How to write AGENTS.md for a test automation repo
What to put in AGENTS.md for a test automation repo, common pitfalls, templates for Playwright, Cypress, and API tests, and how to tell if the file actually helps.
Skills, tools, agents, MCP, AGENTS.md - a concept map for testers
Five concepts that get confused most often in QA conversations about AI - plus a simple decision model for what to use when.