Building an Operating Surface, Not Just an API
A remote agent becomes usable when health, invoke, async jobs, SSE, and chat form one coherent operating surface.
April 17, 2026
Field notes
Building Familiar.
Notes from the operating surface: the tensions, trade-offs, and trust boundaries behind a persistent AI kernel built for real work.
Your LLM Is the Control Plane
Why we stopped treating setup as an admin flow and started treating the user's coding agent as the operator.
April 15, 2026
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