Essays
Why Kody works the way it does, and opinions on agents, ownership, security, and cost.
Subscribe to essays via RSS2026
October 31, 2026 · 5 min read
Why "just use AWS Lambda" breaks down for teams using AI agents
Lambda can run the code your agents write. The trouble is everything around it, like IAM, secrets, deploys, and review. Here's where it breaks for teams.
October 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Why AI agent costs keep growing (and how deterministic tools cut tokens)
Agents re-reason the same tasks every day, and you pay for every token. How saving repeated work as deterministic code cuts AI agent costs.
October 20, 2026 · 5 min read
AI agent skills vs packages, turning prompts into reviewable code
Agent skills tell a model what to do; packages are code that does it. When to use each, and how to turn a fragile prompt into reviewable code.
October 16, 2026 · 5 min read
When an engineer quits, their AI workflows break or keep running on their keys
When an engineer leaves, their agent workflows often leave with them or keep running on their keys. How to make AI workflows survive offboarding.
October 13, 2026 · 5 min read
The hidden cost of AI tooling for engineering teams when everyone builds their own
Five engineers, five private scripts doing the same job. Why duplicated agent tooling costs more than it looks, and how to build it once for the team.
September 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Your engineers are handing private keys to AI agents. Here's what that means.
Every agent your team connects ends up holding real API keys. Here's where those keys hide today and how to keep them out of the model's context.
August 31, 2026 · 6 min read
OpenClaw 2 needs a home
OpenClaw 2.0 is a personal AI that lives on your machine. Kody is the runtime that keeps its memory, keys, packages, and jobs running when that machine sleeps. Here's how they stack.
July 20, 2026 · 6 min read
Your agents' cloud
Your AI assistant accumulates things worth keeping. Memory, keys, code, scheduled jobs, an inbox. Those things should live somewhere durable that you own, no matter which agent you talk to this year.
July 20, 2026 · 6 min read
Gateways connect. Homes accumulate.
MCP gateways and Kody get compared a lot, but they solve different problems. A gateway is a catalog of tools with pluggable ways to call them. Kody is a runtime where your assistant's stuff lives and keeps running. The difference shows up the moment you try to toggle code mode off.
July 20, 2026 · 5 min read
The personal assistant that can't leak your keychain
My assistant's account holds 51 secrets. Here's the security architecture that makes the scary failure modes structurally impossible instead of policy-discouraged.
July 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Why Your agents' cloud should make zero inference calls
Kody makes zero inference calls. That's not a limitation, it's the business model, and it changes who your assistant platform is actually working for.
July 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Every install is a fork you own
In most ecosystems, installing someone's automation means renting a black box. In Kody's community, one-click install creates a fork you own. Here's why that changes how you treat other people's code.
July 20, 2026 · 4 min read
The automations you never got around to building
Your real competitor for automation isn't a better tool, it's not automating at all. Why the activation energy of hosting and credentials killed your automations, and what changes when your agent has a durable home.
July 20, 2026 · 4 min read
Self-service means ownership
Why Kody makes you create your own OAuth apps and bring your own keys, framed honestly. A few minutes of setup buy you your own app, your scopes, your rate limits, and no middleman between you and your data.