Field notes on agentic engineering, kernel sandboxes and human-in-the-loop AI for coding agents. https://tamer.ai/en/blog/ 2026-05-17T00:00:00Z tamer team https://tamer.ai BSL 1.1 — Apache 2.0 after 4 years https://tamer.ai/en/blog/2026-05-17-terminal-transparency-cost-control/ 2026-05-17T00:00:00Z 2026-05-17T00:00:00Z tamer team

AI shouldn't be a black box. Discover why tamer prioritizes Standard Input (STDIN) and respects your existing subscriptions.

https://tamer.ai/en/blog/2026-05-13-building-tamer-spec-completeness-v2-five-axis-study/ 2026-05-13T00:00:00Z 2026-05-13T00:00:00Z tamer team

Five axes, five iterations each. How we turned 'is this spec good enough?' from a vibe into a checklist that a Master Agent can refuse a Work Item against.

https://tamer.ai/en/blog/2026-05-09-anatomy-of-a-done-event-that-never-arrived/ 2026-05-09T00:00:00Z 2026-05-09T00:00:00Z tamer team

Four levels of root cause for why an agent that finishes its work stays invisible.

https://tamer.ai/en/blog/2026-05-07-why-your-ai-agent-is-silently-degrading-your-codebase/ 2026-05-07T00:00:00Z 2026-05-07T00:00:00Z tamer team

75% of AI agents see their regression rate grow over time. Here's how to avoid it.

https://tamer.ai/en/blog/2026-05-05-spec-is-the-bottleneck/ 2026-05-05T00:00:00Z 2026-05-05T00:00:00Z tamer team

Once model capability passes a threshold, code quality depends on the completeness of the specification — not the intelligence of the model. A field note from tamer's design log.