Tom Stagl

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Writing about platform engineering, leadership, and building at scale.

Agent Fleet: Autonomous 3 Days, Active 3 Hours

I scaled the April agentic-workspace idea to four repos, ten projects and forty-two agent roles, then ran it for thirteen days. Here is what it cost, which part of the architecture a platform limit chose for me, what 188 merged pull requests actually looked like, and why the real constraint was never capability.

clawctl: a kubectl-shaped wrapper for an agent gateway

I open-sourced the tiny shell wrapper that talks to my openclaw agent fleet, plus the Claude Code plugin that lives in the same repo. One bash file, five non-negotiable rules, and a GitHub loop-back convention.

The boring plumbing of an agent fleet

I wrote about an agentic workspace earlier this year. It only ran when I was sat in front of it. So I started another side project to learn what AI-native engineering looks like when the agents have their own clock. Here is the wiring, end to end.

I Turned My Personal Site Into an Agentic Workspace

My personal site has been running since before most people knew what a CMS was. Last weekend I rebuilt the way I work on it — not the code, but the process. Here's what it looks like when you run three AI agents in parallel on your own brand project.

Solution Focused Approach for New Year's Resolutions

Have you ever wondered what would help to achieve your New Year's Resolutions? A solutions focused approach can help to set yourself into a positive attitude and OKRs will help to turn this positive energy into achieved goals.

Objectives and Key Results: How To Get Started

OKRs - invented at Intel and brought to Google by John Doerr - is a very simple tool, which allows organizations to focus on the most important things. It is so simple, that you can get up and running very quickly. And here is how.

9 Kpis Agile Managers Should Look At

A healthy agile environment fosters team collaboration, innovation and quality resulting in increased business value. When navigating software projects from top to bottom, from OKRs to user story, it is important to measure where you are at so you are able to find out how to improve.