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Four fixes into a DynamoDB sync backend, the ceiling kept moving: from a hot GSI partition to lock contention to catalog metadata no datastore could outrun.

A developer documents how two CLI-agent invocations against Claude unexpectedly exhausted a $20 subscription by expanding into dozens of internal turns and millions of cache-read tokens, revealing…

Quick intro Simon here - I got nudged in the direction of swamp quest yesteray morning, and quickly came to the conclusion that the way to make it fun would be to make the challenge about using as…

A developer replaced a travel meal-expense spreadsheet with a conversational agent backed by a structured, versioned data store, separating the accounting logic from the chat interface to reduce…

A developer built a Swamp model called @mgreten/trip-packing that generates categorized packing lists from trip parameters and creates Todoist projects with idempotent, hash-marker-based…

A walkthrough of configuring an AI assistant called Hermes to route tasks through a composable automation layer called Swamp, disabling broad built-in toolsets and installing a narrow adapter plugin…

Adventures with config management in the swamp ecosuystem

This is a reflection of a post written by Sean aka webframp on a serious load test performed against the club. An insight into how it looked from the other side. I spent this last Saturday hacking on

A load test that briefly knocked out Swamp's telemetry pipeline, and what it took for that to read as curiosity instead of an attack.

Two extensions covering the same domain means the ecosystem is growing. That's not a governance problem.

For six months, a sticky note on a London hotdesk read: “The S key is sticky, sorry - Mandeep.” What that note did to one keyboard explains exactly what agentic memory toxicity is.

A developer describes building an agent-assisted workflow ("Swamp") to automate batch Frigate NVR exports across multiple cameras when an incident occurs, solving the problem of labor-intensive…

A homelab owner describes building an AI-assisted workflow that monitors UniFi firmware releases, deduplicates version alerts, and schedules multi-stage research reviews over 21 days before…

Why I built a tool whose job is to say no, and why shell access for AI agents is a pattern ready to retire.

I ran a real job search through an open-source AI pipeline and learned swamp by building an extension for it in public. What the tooling replaced, what it didn't, and the honest funnel so far.

Building a Swamp Workflow reduced real world token usage of an AI Agent by 8x and improved execution time by 2x - here is how to do it yourself.

How we built a self-hosted health pipeline with the Google Health API, Swamp extension models, and Claude — from a Xiaomi login dead end, through probing a closed API and reverse-engineering Fitbit's…

You can’t deny Swamp’s gang speed in addressing users requests.

Swamp is an automation framework built to be operated by AI agents rather than by people writing pipelines. What it is, and how I run my autopilot on it.

I taught swamp to read Fedora (accounts, Bugzilla, the packager dashboard) so one command tells me what my packages need. The answer was 135 things.

A developer describes building a route-risk monitoring system using Hermes and Swamp during a multi-state road trip, where structured models and a change-detection loop provided weather and hazard…

Engineers have been using code they didn't write for decades — NPM packages, Stack Overflow pastes, codegen they never read. Nobody called it slop. Then the author changed...

A developer recounts using the Fable 5 model to diagnose and resolve a compounding homelab automation failure — a monolithic 95MB S3 index, orphaned write locks, and wedged processes — through…

A developer describes building a CLI agent tool that persists structured records of each invocation — tracking model, cost, token counts, retries, and wall-clock time — to enable meaningful…

A developer describes building a Pixel Watch complication pipeline that pulls two specific Home Assistant entities — homelab status and Swamp Club score — through MQTT and the Companion App, with…

Writing code was always the surface. The real work was the frameworks and processes underneath. Machines have the typing now; what's left is what always mattered: context, and the deterministic…

The dominant pattern in agentic automation is ephemeral agents producing deterministic artifacts. What does that architecture leave on the table?

I modeled my newborn as a typed resource with a sync method and a stack of reports. It's the newest of five ways I track one baby, and somewhere in the absurdity there's a real reason two exhausted…

I taught swamp to drive FreeIPA, then used it to issue my laptop an 802.1X client cert and get onto my own network. Mostly this is about knowing when to write things down.

A result that travels the way a record travels: a stamped final result, a fingerprint anyone can check, and the full chain that made it attached.