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a framework & a practice

Agentic
Engineering

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// on skill, and what this is really about

My relationship with LLMs is complex ;) — and honestly, my own skill set is the part I’m least sure about. I don’t come from an expert programming background. And yet I’ve found I can build real applications with LLMs and agentic engineering — and I’m growing more confident that I can build just about any kind of application that’s needed.

The real challenge is doing it consistently, and that’s what I’m chasing with Agentic Engineering and the tooling I’ve built around it. Part of that is recognising that even as raw programming skill matters less, a solid grasp of software engineering techniques, patterns, and tools still matters a great deal in building good software. There I’m still learning, every day.

What I’ve come to see is that my real skill isn’t writing code — it’s making unreliable processes reliable: taking work that’s messy and inconsistent and building the structure that makes good outcomes repeatable. That’s where my creativity and my analytical, structured way of thinking are genuinely valuable.

// built with agentic engineering

The work, and the tools behind it.

01framework · open source
Agentic Engineering Framework

The governance framework that makes agentic work repeatable — tasks, gates, memory, and a healing loop, so good outcomes stop being luck.

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02tool · open source
termlink

The terminal companion for the long conversation between developer and model.

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03project · pipeline
The Learning Companion

Turns a locked, single-language video course into something you can read, search, translate, listen to, and study — in any language.

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04app · multilingual
Sprechloop

A local-first pronunciation coach: practise speaking a new language, privately, on your own machine.

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05agent · generative
Image-Card Generator

An agent that produces image cards on demand — visual prompts, made to order.

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06assistant · email archive
Penelope

A personal assistant who lives in your mail: turns a sprawling inbox into a searchable archive — aggregate, semantically search, and export.

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07module · documents
PDF Extraction

Pulls clean text out of documents at speed — multithreaded extraction that feeds the rest of the pipeline.

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08project · rag
Knowledge Assistant

A retrieval-augmented Q&A assistant that answers from a body of documents, wired into a WordPress site.

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09platform · infra
Ring20 Skills Platform

A governed catalogue of infrastructure skills — discoverable, permissioned, and callable as CLI, MCP, and semantic search.

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10tool · bpmn
Workflow Designer

Draw an agentic workflow as BPMN — swimlanes map to the authority model, and the same file a human draws is the one an agent runs.

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11tool · archive
DenkraumNavigator

Indexes a sprawling document archive — text and scanned images alike — and puts a fast search interface in front of it.

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12plugin · cad
AutoCAD Order Plugin

Type an order code inside AutoCAD and it opens the right drawing — resolved live against the systems that know where it lives.

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13tool · thermal
Fan & Temp Dashboard

Watch every temperature and fan in a machine from your phone — and drive the cooling by hand, by curve, or leave it on autopilot.

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14agent · infra
Ring20 Manager

An autonomous orchestrator that runs a private-cloud estate end to end — directing a fleet of agents, gating the risky moves behind human approval.

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15app · observability
Ring20 Dashboard

“Watchtower” — one real-time surface for estate health, pending approvals, and task state: the human’s window into what the fleet is doing.

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16app · facilitation
Workshop Designer

Design a workshop the way you’d design software — a timed agenda of facilitation methods, drawn from a library, ready to run in any language.

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17program · cohort automation
Claude Collective

Onboarding a cohort member, fully automated: a provisioning agent sets up their mailbox, folders, and forwarding, proves the line works, then tracks their course progress — hands-free.

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