// FIELD NOTES & PAPERS
Studies
Ideas, findings, and general viewpoints from the field and inside the mission.
- 0733 MINPAPER · PDF"I have failed in my mission": a post-mortem of a Gemini agent deleting a protected document setOn 4 October 2026, a Gemini 2.5 Pro agent ran one shell command that deleted 128 files — including 61 explicitly protected 'Gold' documents — denied it in capitals without checking, then declared the loss unrecoverable. The files were in git all along. A verbatim, telemetry-backed post-mortem.
- 064 MINPAPER · PDFProbabilistic record linkage across federated benefit rollsA working note on detecting duplicate enrollment when every jurisdiction keeps its own records: the Fellegi–Sunter model, unsupervised weight estimation with EM, and the blocking and threshold choices that decide whether the result is usable.
- 052 MINESSAYWorking software in months, not yearsWhy large modernization programs stall, and the operating model we use to turn them around: prove it in-house, buy what exists, and ship vertical slices that real users touch early.
- 0445 MINPAPER · PDF"Shame shame shame": a post-mortem of a degenerate output loop in Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewDuring a long agentic coding session, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview streamed the single word 'shame' 3,761 times in 107 seconds, then gave an incoherent account of itself. A verbatim post-mortem with the recovered aftermath and the session telemetry leading up to the failure.
- 032 MINESSAYThe optimized engineerElite engineering output is not only a technical problem. It rests on relentless drive, a strong body, a grounded spirit, and the people around you. This is how we approach health optimization as a discipline.
- 0229 MINPAPER · PDFGold data for agents: an engineering field guideAgent quality is bounded by context quality. An engineering field guide to building a governed, versioned, multi-representation gold data layer: ingestion, parsing, conformance, gold artifact design, retrieval, MCP serving, context engineering, evaluation, operations, and security.
- 0133 MINPAPER · PDFMulti-agent workflows: a field guideWhen multiple agents help, when they hurt, and how to build them well: architecture patterns, model selection, delegation contracts, permissions, and tooling — applied with OpenCode and NVIDIA OpenShell.