Continuous work / Explicit authority / Durable evidenceScroll to follow the work ↓
01 / The discontinuity
Software has changed. Its infrastructure hasn’t.
Agents write code, operate tools, change infrastructure, and initiate deployments. The work crosses systems that disagree about identity, authority, progress, and evidence.
Different teams. Different tools. Agents you can’t blindly trust. You need to know who did what—and whether they were allowed to.
01 / IntentDeveloperA task
02 / DelegationAgentA session
03 / AutomationCIA job
04 / AccessCloudA credential
05 / ChangeKubernetesAn object
The same work continues. Its context is split across five accounts.
02 / Habitat
Run there. Work here.
Give agents remote compute. Keep your work close.
Your laptop, a remote machine, your team’s cluster—the goal is one way to work across them. Follow the task, not the worker running it.
Habitat keeps the work’s identity, recorded history, and retained results beyond an individual worker. The connected local-to-remote experience is still in development.
An agent should not need unrestricted production credentials to complete a specific task. Authority belongs to durable work, within an explicit scope—not to whatever a prompt persuades a worker to do.
Habitat’s custody-bound model ties a bounded grant to the current custodian of an Operation. Supported mediated effects provide a controlled path for selected external actions.
Operation
Bounded grant
Verified custody
Mediated effect
Record
Who acted? What changed? Which grant permitted it? The record should connect those answers—and expose what remains unknown.
Full credential brokerage and broader production integrations are in development. A recorded request is not automatically a confirmed external effect.
05 / Engineering outcomes
Move faster. Know what happened.
The aim is more useful delegation without losing the ability to explain the result. These are outcomes to test with engineering teams, not performance claims already achieved.
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Less repeated work after failure.
Measure how much completed work must be rerun when a worker disappears.
02
Fewer manual interventions.
Measure where a human must reconstruct context or reconnect a task.
03
More work worth delegating.
Measure which operational tasks can be completed within an agreed scope.
04
Controlled access.
Examine the authority needed for a task against the authority actually granted.
05
A record you can examine.
Test whether another reader can connect actors, actions, authority, and outcomes.
Containers answer one set of questions. The work itself asks another. On old systems and the boundaries we choose.
07 / Berlin — Helsinki
Computing is a craft. Infrastructure deserves care.
A small team with experience in eBPF, Kubernetes, and large production systems. We bring systems history to a contemporary question: how should infrastructure work when people and agents operate it together?
For technical discussion, design partnerships, and CTO research: bring a real workflow, a difficult boundary, or a question your current records cannot answer.