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Monday, August 3

ISSUE #40

Echoes

The Model Context Protocol dropped sessions this week. The spec got smaller, which looks like simplification until you notice what happened: the protocol stopped holding your state and handed the problem to your application code. We kept running into that same move putting this issue together. Agent reliability over a long task bends the wrong way on a curve. Review queues don't just back up. The work changes while it waits, so a reviewer inherits a different problem than the one submitted. The hard part keeps relocating to wherever you haven't built for it. This issue is about seeing where it went.

Monday, August 3

ISSUE #40

Echoes

Past Articles

August — Issue #40

Signal and Absence

The Signature Has an Expiry. The Mandate Has No Field.

Agent traffic can now prove who's calling and never what it was sent to do, and no amount of logging gets that back.

Signal and Absence

Two Letters, and Suddenly It Was Your Problem

A clerk's two-letter shorthand for borrowed authority, and how it dumped the burden of asking onto whoever was holding the paper.

The Deferred Question

The Load-Bearing Word

E-SIGN gave machine-formed contracts federal standing in 2000 and left "attributable" undefined. Adaptive agents are now putting weight on that joint.