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Chad Priest

I'm Chad Priest. I'm building Vodou - an AI operating system with persistent local memory, MCP orchestration, and a Rust engine.

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Your message table is storing your UI, not your transcript
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Your message table is storing your UI, not your transcript

#aiagents #observability #architecture #llm
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A skill that finishes into a tab nobody has open did not finish
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A skill that finishes into a tab nobody has open did not finish

#aiagents #observability #architecture #mcp
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The renderer existed. Nothing on that surface ever called it.
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The renderer existed. Nothing on that surface ever called it.

#aiagents #architecture #observability #mcp
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Your source-trust score is grading the pipe, not the source
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Your source-trust score is grading the pipe, not the source

#rag #sqlite #ai #debugging
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66,570 characters reached the model and nothing logged them
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66,570 characters reached the model and nothing logged them

#observability #llm #aiagents #architecture
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Prompt injection defense that survives to turn 40
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Prompt injection defense that survives to turn 40

#aiagents #security #mcp #memory
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Your MCP allowlist controls tool names, not what they return
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Your MCP allowlist controls tool names, not what they return

#mcp #aiagents #security #architecture
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Every stdio MCP server you spawn inherits your whole .env
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Every stdio MCP server you spawn inherits your whole .env

#security #mcp #node #debugging
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A rule at byte 37,367 is not a rule if the cap is 32 KiB
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A rule at byte 37,367 is not a rule if the cap is 32 KiB

#aiagents #architecture #llm #developertooling
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Your link checker read planned downtime as a broken URL
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Your link checker read planned downtime as a broken URL

#seo #devops #monitoring #ci
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Two tables both called 'skill', and nothing knew which was which
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Two tables both called 'skill', and nothing knew which was which

#aiagents #mcp #architecture #llm
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Your reranker fell back to cosine and the floor kept firing
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Your reranker fell back to cosine and the floor kept firing

#rag #retrieval #debugging #ai
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Two writers, one Markdown file: your appends get misfiled
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Two writers, one Markdown file: your appends get misfiled

#markdown #concurrency #debugging #rag
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Your MEMORY.md is a file nobody writes to. Render it instead.
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Your MEMORY.md is a file nobody writes to. Render it instead.

#aiagents #memory #llm #architecture
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A 400-byte cap crashed my memory daemon on one emoji
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A 400-byte cap crashed my memory daemon on one emoji

#memory #aiagents #llm #observability
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Your document chunker is a memory chunker, and it quadruples your store
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Your document chunker is a memory chunker, and it quadruples your store

#retrieval #aiagents #memory #architecture
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Per-site memory off switches only work if every reader asks the same authority
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Per-site memory off switches only work if every reader asks the same authority

#aiagents #memory #architecture #privacy
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Your Agent's Memory Has No Idea Where It Was
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Your Agent's Memory Has No Idea Where It Was

#aiagents #memory #retrieval #architecture
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Your retired button is still mounted, still handling clicks
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Your retired button is still mounted, still handling clicks

#javascript #chrome #debugging #webdev
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Your isolated test lab isn't isolated: 3 rows, 8 daemons
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Your isolated test lab isn't isolated: 3 rows, 8 daemons

#testing #debugging #sqlite #devops
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Why My LLM Agent Fabricated Numbers From Stale Context
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Why My LLM Agent Fabricated Numbers From Stale Context

#typescript #llm #debugging #caching
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Every copy of the rule agreed. That was the bug.
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Every copy of the rule agreed. That was the bug.

#aiagents #architecture #observability #mcp
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SQLite FTS5 quietly ANDs your search terms
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SQLite FTS5 quietly ANDs your search terms

#sqlite #search #debugging #javascript
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A silent failure looks exactly like a feature you never built
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A silent failure looks exactly like a feature you never built

#aiagents #observability #architecture #browserextensions
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Node execFile was 2.7x slower: the spawn cost nothing
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Node execFile was 2.7x slower: the spawn cost nothing

#node #performance #debugging #mcp
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cached_tokens is 0 because your system prompt isn't stable
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cached_tokens is 0 because your system prompt isn't stable

#llm #caching #typescript #debugging
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Your agent's approval gate is probably just a warning label
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Your agent's approval gate is probably just a warning label

#aiagents #mcp #orchestration #architecture
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