# gkoreli.com

> A personal publication by Goga Koreli — essays, engineering notes, and OSS Radar.

This is a personal publication with three sections: Essays (personal reflections), Engineering (building with agents and systems), and OSS Radar (open source ecosystem analysis). Posts are written with AI assistance but are human-directed. The source code, analytics, and architecture decisions are all public.

## Sections

- [Essays](https://gkoreli.com/essays): Personal reflections, slow thinking, and long-form writing.
- [Engineering](https://gkoreli.com/engineering): Building with agents, tools, and systems. Technical depth.
- [OSS Radar](https://gkoreli.com/oss-radar): Open source ecosystem analysis. Serialised issues.

## Posts

- [Does llms.txt Work? What a Live Implementation Revealed](https://gkoreli.com/does-llms-txt-work.md): [Engineering] Does llms.txt improve AI search? This live audit examines edge data, agent tools, Markdown, and GEO evidence—then shows what to build and measure.
- [Prompts: Does llms.txt Work? What a Live Implementation Revealed](https://gkoreli.com/does-llms-txt-work/prompts): The 24 prompts that shaped this post
- [My Evals Say It Works. I Still Don't Reach for It.](https://gkoreli.com/my-evals-say-it-works-i-dont-use-it.md): [Engineering] The ghx AI-agent reconnaissance sidecar passed a 90-episode eval at 25× compression. My usage logs show a three-day burst, then silence.
- [Prompts: My Evals Say It Works. I Still Don't Reach for It.](https://gkoreli.com/my-evals-say-it-works-i-dont-use-it/prompts): The 7 prompts that shaped this post
- [OSS Radar #04: The Agent Multiplexer Is Becoming a Runtime](https://gkoreli.com/oss-radar-04-the-agent-multiplexer-is-becoming-a-runtime.md): [OSS Radar] Herdr gives coding agents durable terminal sessions, agent state, and a control API. Screen-derived semantics remain its limit.
- [Bring Your Own AI Agent Everywhere](https://gkoreli.com/bring-your-own-ai-agent.md): [Engineering] AgentPort lets applications attach a user-owned AI agent with scoped grants, private transport, and no new model subscription per app.
- [Prompts: Bring Your Own AI Agent Everywhere](https://gkoreli.com/bring-your-own-ai-agent/prompts): The 10 prompts that shaped this post
- [OSS Radar #03: Buzz Is Slack on AIroids](https://gkoreli.com/oss-radar-03-buzz-is-slack-on-airoids.md): [OSS Radar] Buzz gives agents signed accounts and shared local compute. Delegation reliability and private code access remain unfinished.
- [OpenWiki Validates My Bet. I Still Don't Know Where the Memory Should Live](https://gkoreli.com/openwiki-validates-my-bet.md): [Engineering] OpenWiki validates the main idea behind backlog-mcp. It also forces me to face three problems I have not solved: where agent memory lives, how its files read, and what to call the product.
- [I Am Lost Right Now](https://gkoreli.com/i-am-lost-right-now.md): [Essays] I am the only user of my open source projects, I do not know what to build next, and I am trying not to escape into another idea.
- [117 Pull Requests Later, It Wasn’t a Task Manager Anymore](https://gkoreli.com/one-hundred-pull-requests.md): [Engineering] The story of how backlog-mcp grew from a task manager into local-first context and memory infrastructure for AI agents — and produced the UI framework powering this blog.
- [Prompts: 117 Pull Requests Later, It Wasn’t a Task Manager Anymore](https://gkoreli.com/one-hundred-pull-requests/prompts): The 13 prompts that shaped this post
- [What If the Agent Was Better Before We Helped?](https://gkoreli.com/what-if-the-agent-was-better-before-we-helped.md): [Engineering] I am building ghx, a code reconnaissance CLI for AI agents, and now an agent sidecar framework around it. The hard question is whether any of it actually improves signal per token compared to plain old gh.
- [Prompts: What If the Agent Was Better Before We Helped?](https://gkoreli.com/what-if-the-agent-was-better-before-we-helped/prompts): The 10 prompts that shaped this post
- [The Builder’s Perfectionism Trap](https://gkoreli.com/i-thought-building-was-enough.md): [Essays] For a decade I believed great engineering would make everything else happen automatically. I am starting to understand how toxic that was.
- [Prompts: The Builder’s Perfectionism Trap](https://gkoreli.com/i-thought-building-was-enough/prompts): The 6 prompts that shaped this post
- [One bitmask in task_struct: how a 10-line kernel patch resolves 15 years of multi-runtime signal conflicts on Linux](https://gkoreli.com/linux-signal-stack-conflict.md): [Engineering] SA_ONSTACK is process-wide. sigaltstack is per-thread. When Go, Bun, .NET, and the JVM share a process, signals land on the wrong stack. One kernel field fixes the class.
- [Life as Background Music](https://gkoreli.com/life-as-background-music.md): [Essays] On realizing how easy it is to like things, want things, even feel things, and still keep them safely in the background.
- [Prompts: Life as Background Music](https://gkoreli.com/life-as-background-music/prompts): The 9 prompts that shaped this post
- [You Don't Always Need Codemap](https://gkoreli.com/you-dont-need-codemap.md): [Engineering] Codemap, Aider, Gitingest, Repomix, and ghx solve different parts of agent code context: mapping, searching, packing, and deciding what to read before cloning.
- [OSS Radar #02: The Toolchain Is the Moat](https://gkoreli.com/oss-radar-02-the-toolchain-is-the-moat.md): [OSS Radar] How the Astral acquisition reveals the real war being fought in AI coding — and why everyone is talking about the wrong thing.
- [Procrastination Is a Craft You've Been Mastering Your Entire Life](https://gkoreli.com/procrastination-is-a-craft-youve-been-mastering-your-entire-life.md): [Essays] Every article you've ever read told you procrastination is the enemy. A flaw to fix. A habit to break. I spent 30 years believing that. Turns out, I had it completely backwards.
- [Topologies of Thoughts](https://gkoreli.com/topologies-of-thoughts.md): [Engineering] On Kat Zhang's obsidian note network, the GitHub ecosystem around it, and what graph neuroscience says about the shape of minds
- [Build the GitHub Exploration Tool, No Mistakes](https://gkoreli.com/how-ghx-was-born.md): [Engineering] A CLI tool that looks simple took 23 agent sessions, 2,500+ turns, and three rewrites. This is what building with AI actually looks like.
- [Prompts: Build the GitHub Exploration Tool, No Mistakes](https://gkoreli.com/how-ghx-was-born/prompts): The 37 prompts that shaped this post
- [OSS Radar #01: Vercel's Winter 2026 Cohort](https://gkoreli.com/oss-radar-01-vercel-winter-2026-cohort.md): [OSS Radar] A new series: I find a source, go through it, distill what's worth your time, and tell you what I actually think. First up — Vercel's Open Source Program Winter 2026 cohort.
- [The Agentic Product Engineer](https://gkoreli.com/the-agentic-product-engineer.md): [Engineering] Software engineering isn't going away — writing code without agents is. The role is expanding, not shrinking. Here's what that actually means.
- [Prompts: The Agentic Product Engineer](https://gkoreli.com/the-agentic-product-engineer/prompts): The 17 prompts that shaped this post

## API

- [Public Analytics](https://gkoreli.com/api/stats): Real-time analytics data (JSON, no auth required)
- [Post Index](https://gkoreli.com/posts.json): All posts with metadata (JSON)
- [RSS Feed](https://gkoreli.com/feed.xml): Subscribe to new posts

## Source

- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/gkoreli/blog): Full source code, ADRs, and build pipeline