https://zedialabs.com/blog/ Operator notes on running AI coding agents: gates, context economics, verification, and making agent work repeatable. en Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://zedialabs.com/blog/local-model-prompt-contracts/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/local-model-prompt-contracts/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Local models fail on vague prompts. The four-part prompt contract (task, constraints, output format, temperature) that makes 3B to 13B models reliable in agent loops. https://zedialabs.com/blog/client-billing-privacy/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/client-billing-privacy/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Client names, rates, hours, and invoice history are confidential business data. Why billing records belong in files you own, not in a SaaS vendor's cloud. https://zedialabs.com/blog/why-i-am-building-zedia-labs/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/why-i-am-building-zedia-labs/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 A one person software shop building AI agent tools, field manuals, and services in the open. The belief system behind it, from the founder who still has the problem. https://zedialabs.com/blog/mission-control-for-ai-agents/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/mission-control-for-ai-agents/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Agents that wake up briefed, a board that limits work in progress, criteria-gated loops, and offline local models that ship real work. https://zedialabs.com/blog/agent-loops-guide/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/agent-loops-guide/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000 The Plan → Act → Observe → Reflect pattern that turns a local model into a worker that finishes jobs — and why local models need loops the most. https://zedialabs.com/blog/own-your-freelancer-dashboard/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/own-your-freelancer-dashboard/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0000 What local-first means for your income, client, and invoice records — and the sixty-day math that ends the SaaS-dashboard discussion. https://zedialabs.com/blog/benchmark-runs-to-decisions/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/benchmark-runs-to-decisions/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Why benchmark results rot in folders, and the three artifacts a workflow should produce instead: comparisons, trends, verdicts. https://zedialabs.com/blog/introducing-agent-harness-kit/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/introducing-agent-harness-kit/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000 The Agent Harness Kit is live: a free interactive field manual on operating AI coding agents, plus a harness generator and an operator course in the $29 complete kit. https://zedialabs.com/blog/ai-agent-tool-gates/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/ai-agent-tool-gates/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 AUTO, NOTIFY, APPROVE, FORBID — how to decide what your AI coding agent may do on its own, and why one table prevents most agent disasters. https://zedialabs.com/blog/prompt-caching-agent-costs/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/prompt-caching-agent-costs/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Prompt caching is the single biggest cost lever in AI agent loops. Stable prefixes, just-in-time retrieval, and hard budget stops. https://zedialabs.com/blog/verify-ai-agent-work/ https://zedialabs.com/blog/verify-ai-agent-work/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000 The generator–verifier gap, the test-editing incident every operator meets, and machine-checkable definitions of done.