Sebastian Scholl

Releasing Manceps -- a Ruby client for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Persistent connections, built-in auth, stdio + HTTP transports, full 2025-11-25 spec support. No LLM coupling. Pure protocol client. gem install manceps github.com/zarpay/manceps

Now using it daily, personally and professionally. I've started building on it, using it (i.e. new agent capabilities -> tools, relationship awareness -> Resolvers). All code - optional relay included - are #opensource on GitHub. Check out the docs.

Made an alpha release of my agent harness framework, Protege. docs.protege.bot Using it as an alternative to #OpenClaw. The two main design/architectural decisions/differences being SMTP-first gateway and fully-extensible framework APIs. The harness IS a mail server.

Works out of the box, but tailored for devs. The toolkit API (Providers, Tools, Resolvers, and Hooks) gives control over everything - context pipelines to callbacks on obscure life-cycle events. It's a tool for builders. #DX/extensibility were priority #1 in my designs.

Building on SMTP gives your agents email addresses and native communication capabilities. Multiple recipients. CC/BCC. Responding in threads. Emailing directly with other agents. Handling attachments. No polling Gmail; inbound messages invoke the agent. DKIM, SPF, and DMARC enabled. Whitelist/blacklist messaging controls with security policies.

🧵 Farming robots are no longer experimental. They're deployed, profitable, and reshaping agriculture. In orchards, vineyards, vegetable fields, and beyond, they're tackling labor shortages, precision spraying, and chemical reduction at scale. This is how robotics is quietly becoming the backbone of next-gen agriculture [Save this thread for later 📌]

I could not stop watching this. In China they make denim from Abaca banana stalks from the Philippines. Whole Process was mesmerizing! 😳

Don't anthropomorphize computers... they hate that.

Thanks for sharing . Curious on whether you feel many jobs exist more because humans have a bent for creating opportunities, status games, and social busyness with each other rather than from strict economic "need"? Econ 101 shows automation kills replaceable jobs fast, but the reality seems messier. Past waves of automation resulted in new layers of "work theater" to absorb people. In the long run, there's a very human chance that cheap agents + verification bottleneck actually expand hard-to-measure human-centric roles (oversight theater, etc.) instead of shrinking them.

1/ Some Simple Economics of AGI—🔥🧵 Right now, there is a low-grade panic running through the economy. Everyone is asking the same anxious question: what exactly is AI going to automate, and what will be left for us?

Thanks for sharing . Curious on whether you feel many jobs exist more because humans have a bent for creating opportunities, status games, and social busyness with each other rather than from strict economic "need"? Econ 101 shows automation kills replaceable jobs fast, but the reality seems messier. Past waves of automation resulted in new layers of "work theater" to absorb people. In the long run, there's a very human chance that cheap agents + verification bottleneck actually expand hard-to-measure human-centric roles (oversight theater, etc.) instead of shrinking them.

MVC gave us Rails, Django, Laravel — and exploded web dev. Agentic AI apps are in the same messy pre-framework era right now: custom glue code everywhere. But a clear pattern is emerging: Loop, Orchestrator, Gateway, Inference.

AGI may not be a problem of scale or training data. It may be a problem of substrate. Of trying to build a mind from the words that minds produce, rather than discovering the algorithms that produce the words.

Your AI Is Stuffing Envelopes. medium.com/zar-engineerin…

The Japanese Trump is hilarious 😂

#OpenClaw is fun, and I've seen some great use cases. I've also seen a lot of people spending $1.50 every 15 minutes giving Opus a heartbeat just to be notified on Telegram that they have no important emails.

AI Made the Best Anti-AI Meme So Far

Reviewing Claude Code output before pushing directly to prod