Greg Wilson

agent-skills 2026.10.19 is out. I merged claude-code-workflows and my old agent-skills repo into one library: dgalarza/agent-skills. Every skill lives once. Claude Code plugins sit on top, and any agent can install a single skill with npx skills. damiangalarza.com/posts/2026…

I found myself constantly redirecting my agents on how to use the new stacked PRs feature in Github, so I wrote a skill around it. Install it via npx skills add dgalarza/agent-skills --skill stacked-prs

agent-ready v1.6.1 is out. No more `CLAUDE.md` symlink. Claude Code 2.1.277+ reads `AGENTS.md` directly; existing `CLAUDE.md` stays. github.com/dgalarza/claude-c…

A @xai Grok Bot–style teammate needs app connectors and a cloud desktop that keeps working when your laptop closes — then the ability to drive that desktop when there’s no API. I rebuilt that with @mastra, @composio, and @E2bDev computer use: live Notion OAuth + the agent browsing a real site in a sandbox. youtu.be/5auulroARF0

I built an AI agent on @DocusignDevs' IAM platform that catches signed contracts before they quietly auto-renew. It found a live example: a $125K agreement with 15 days left to cancel. Two Mastra agents read the agreement data over Docusign MCP, a deterministic policy engine classifies the risk (not a prompt), and nothing hits Docusign Workflow Builder without a human approving it first.

Connect Grok Bot to your @mastra agents with A2A

Awesome to see the Rails team performing benchmarks of different models. rubyonrails.org/2026/8/13/ag…

Coding agents have made me more bullish on Rails for web applications, not less. I felt it while building a reliable PDF-generation and email flow in a serverless TypeScript application. The business requirement was straightforward: generate an agreement without tying up a web request, then email it reliably. But there was no background-job path already in the system. So the feature grew into infrastructure: a job table, a workflow runner, a cron process to find pending work, handlers, and failure semantics. An agent can help write all of that. Someone still has to review it, understand the edge cases, and own it when the next feature depends on it. In Rails, the smallest credible version has a familiar path: controller → Active Job → PDF generation → Action Mailer. That is not magic an agent cannot understand. It is a shared contract that gives the agent a narrower problem to solve and gives reviewers a known place to look. Rails also gives you models, migrations, MVC, a secure production baseline, and a quality gate you can make executable with `bin/ci`. Agents make code cheap to generate. They do not make bespoke systems cheap to own. For a new web app, I would give Rails far more weight than I did a year ago. For an existing system, audit the custom infrastructure your agents are producing and make its conventions and quality gates explicit. The video is the fuller argument: youtu.be/x3nPZP0HzhU I write weekly about practical production AI engineering: damiangalarza.com/newsletter…

A "dark factory" is a production line that runs with the lights off. No humans on the floor. People are starting to describe software the same way: agents that build and ship with you out of the loop. I don't think that's the goal. But I wanted to find where the actual line is, so this week I started building a software factory with Mastra. The idea is to add autonomy one task at a time, and only as far as each task earns it. The first station is a Dependabot triage workflow I already run as a Codex automation, rebuilt on Mastra. Right now it's read-only: it reads the changelogs and gives me a merge-or-hold call. It doesn't merge anything yet. Under the hood that's: 1. A GitHub app that listens for webhooks on opened PRs 2. A Slack app wired into Mastra Channels, so the agent reports in and I can reply to it 3. The RubyGems API for pulling dependency changelogs to analyze Every episode, it moves a little closer to running on its own. Where would you draw that line first? Built on @mastra. Full walkthrough and the repo: youtu.be/SQV6b_VvCUo