# brigade (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover brigade. Page: Feed: --- ## [100 Merged PRs and the Last Weekend of Summer](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/whats-cookin-in-the-lab-100-merged-prs-and-the-last-weekend-of-summer/) _2026-08-11 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Brigade 0.26.0 and 0.26.1 shipped in four days. From August 4 through August 10, I merged 100 pull requests while a fleet of cloud builders helped turn my operating workflow into the first pieces of 0.27.0. The week ended away from the feeds, with the kids and family, during their last weekend of summer. ## [Quiet Bugs and Better Memes](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/whats-cookin-in-the-lab-quiet-bugs-and-better-memes/) _2026-08-04 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Brigade 0.26.0 remains gated while fresh checks close quiet failure modes. BrigadeClaw gained bounded retrieval, and Meme Roster turned 525 researched entries into a searchable local library of 492 distinct formats. ## [This Week in the Lab: Three Tools Became One Brigade](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/whats-cookin-in-the-lab-three-tools-became-one-brigade/) _2026-07-28 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ This week I folded GraphTrail's Rust code graph, MiseLedger's Go evidence ledger, and agent-notify into Brigade, turning three repositories into one product without flattening the engines underneath. Around that work I put T3 dispatch agents on three machines, started replacing Brigade's overwritten run snapshots with a chained append-only journal, kept a public agent offline after a failed gate,… ## [A 41KB File Lobotomized My AI Agent for Weeks](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/a-41kb-file-lobotomized-my-ai-agent-for-weeks/) _2026-07-01 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Two real failures from six months of running an always-on agent memory system: a nightly job that silently truncated the agent's memory index for weeks, and 195 handoff notes nobody was reading. The rules that came out of the scar tissue. ## [Early surprises at the IIHF world men’s hockey championship in Switzerland](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/early-surprises-at-the-iihf-world) _2026-05-18 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ Sweden, German, USA underperforming while host side looks strong ## [GitHub Availability in April 2026: Merge Queue Corruption, Search Collapse, and What the Status Page Misses](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/github-availability-agentic-load-report/) _2026-04-28 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Two failure classes in five days: a merge queue correctness bug that mutated default branches and an Elasticsearch overload that emptied PR lists. GitHub's growth story is real, but the engineering debt is the buried lede. ## [GPT-5.5 Is OpenAI's Workstation Model](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/gpt55-openai-workstation-model/) _2026-04-23 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ GPT-5.5 is less interesting as a chatbot upgrade than as OpenAI's bet on Codex, computer use, long-running tool work, and enterprise agents. The launch is impressive, but the honest read has caveats around cost, routing, safety, and real developer workflows. ## [Opus Isn't Dumber. The Harness Was Broken](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/opus-isnt-dumber-the-harness-was-broken/) _2026-04-23 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Anthropic's April 23 postmortem says the recent Claude Code quality slump was not a model regression. The failures were in the harness: defaults, session-state handling, and a prompt-layer change that quietly hurt coding quality. ## [Anthropic Broke My OpenClaw Stack. GPT 5.4 Put It Back Together](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/openclaw-after-anthropic-how-i-made-gpt-54-work/) _2026-04-22 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Anthropic cut off third-party harness subscription coverage, Claude CLI reuse turned into a classifier mess, and a lot of OpenClaw users walked away. I rebuilt mine around GPT 5.4, strict agent lanes, local-first retrieval, and a pile of ugly fixes. ## [Dreaming Is Useful. Structured Memory Is Better](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/dreaming-useful-structured-memory-better/) _2026-04-16 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ I ran OpenClaw Dreaming for a full week on top of my existing memory stack. It found real signal, surfaced a lot of junk, and made one thing clear: structured memory is still the foundation. ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QzutiwNxvOuj) _2026-04-15 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [GPT-5.4-Cyber Is Really a Fight Over Access Control](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/gpt54-cyber-access-control-war/) _2026-04-14 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ OpenAI and Anthropic are not just shipping cyber-capable models. They are pushing different ideas about who should get access, and that matters more to defenders than the launch-day hype. ## [Claude Mythos Preview Is a Warning Shot for Every Security Team](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/anthropic-mythos-preview-cybersecurity-implications/) _2026-04-08 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Anthropic says Mythos can autonomously find and exploit serious software flaws across major operating systems and browsers. Here’s what the official launch materials actually say, and what cyber defenders and threat intel teams need to do with that information. ## [The Axios npm Attack: What Happened, How to Check, and What to Do](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/axios-npm-supply-chain-attack/) _2026-04-02 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ North Korean actors backdoored the Axios npm package on March 31. Here's the full attack chain, how to check if you're affected, and exactly what to do about it. ## [Claude Code's Source Leak Was Embarrassing. The Real Story Is What It Revealed](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/claude-code-source-leak-npm/) _2026-04-01 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Anthropic's Claude Code source leak exposed far more than implementation details. It exposed roadmap, trust assumptions, and how brittle npm security has become. ## [I Got Tired of Clicking Through Threat Intel Dashboards, So I Gave MISP a Direct Agent Interface](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/misp-mcp-direct-ioc-questions-not-dashboard-clicks/) _2026-03-28 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Most threat intel workflows still force you through too many screens for one simple IOC question. I built misp-mcp so an agent can ask MISP directly, with tighter tool surfaces, better visibility, and shipping-grade test coverage. ## [Replacing SCCM with FOG Project](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/replacing-sccm-with-fog-project/) _2026-03-28 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ How I replaced SCCM with FOG Project for 72 lab workstations, fought Debian Trixie installer bugs, fixed PXE boot on newer hardware, and built a repeatable Windows 11 imaging pipeline. ## [I Built 7 MCP Servers for Security Tools. The Protocol Was the Easy Part.](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/building-security-mcp-servers/) _2026-03-23 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ What I learned building MCP servers for Wazuh, Suricata, Zeek, TheHive, MISP, and more. The real challenge was not the protocol. ## [How I Tightened OpenClaw Memory So Long Sessions Stop Falling Apart](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/openclaw-memory-tuning/) _2026-03-23 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ A practical look at the memory architecture I use in OpenClaw, what was already working, where it was weak, and the config changes that made long sessions much more reliable. ## [Stop Running Your AI Agent in a Single Chat Thread](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/openclaw-session-management-discord/) _2026-03-21 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Why single-thread messengers like Telegram and Signal are holding back your OpenClaw setup, and how Discord's channel model fixes context contamination, cron confusion, and project sprawl. ## [Build Log: Code Search](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/building-code-search/) _2026-03-20 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ How I built a local-first semantic code search API using FastAPI, SQLite, and Ollama embeddings to make retrieval fast, free, and private. ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/85A81Pz1wE6C) _2026-03-19 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [Fixing the Blind Orchestrator: How sessions\_send Replaced a Broken Multi-Agent Workflow](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/fixing-coder-agent-orchestration/) _2026-03-07 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ My AI orchestrator couldn't see its own subagent's results. Auto-announce sent outputs to the wrong place, truncated them, and required manual intervention. Here's how one API call fixed everything. ## [When Codex Said I Burned a Month of Tokens in One Night](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/gpt54-phantom-quota-bug/) _2026-03-07 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ I tried to use GPT 5.3 Codex to summarize 70,000 code chunks. It reported phantom token usage that didn't exist. Here's what actually happened and how Ollama cloud models saved the project. ## [I Migrated Our Entire Infrastructure from Hyper-V to Proxmox. Here's Everything I Learned.](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/hyperv-to-proxmox-migration-guide/) _2026-02-28 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Domain controllers, file servers, network monitoring, imaging, WiFi controllers. All of it moved from Microsoft to open source. No downtime. No data loss. Here's the complete playbook. ## [Building a Local-First Enforcement Hook for OpenClaw (And the Coder Model That Kept Breaking)](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/openclaw-local-first-enforcement/) _2026-02-22 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ How I built a system prompt injection hook that forces my AI agent to check local APIs before burning cloud tokens, then iterated through three coder models to find one that actually works. ## [Rules Don't Work on AI Agents. Git Hooks Do.](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/agent-self-governance-2026-02-20/) _2026-02-20 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Why AGENTS.md instructions fail when AI agents can bypass them. How git pre-push hooks enforce real constraints on autonomous coding agents. ## [From 100K Token Messages to Semantic Search: How I Fixed My AI Agent's Memory](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/openclaw-memory-token-optimization/) _2026-02-19 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ The real story of building an AI agent memory system. From Kimi K2.5 blowing through tokens to local semantic search with Ollama. Every mistake, every fix. ## [OpenClaw Multi-Model Setup: Stop Burning Money on the Wrong Model](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/openclaw-multi-model-setup/) _2026-02-16 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ A current OpenClaw multi-model setup using the Codex harness on GPT-5.6 as the main lane, focused harness subagents, Ollama for embeddings, Ollama Cloud for cheap offload, a Cursor subscription overflow lane, Grok / xAI as an optional provider tier, OpenClaw image generation with gpt-image-2, browser research tools, and Opus 4.8 ACP escalation. ## [OpenClaw Security Hardening: From Basic to Fortress](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/openclaw-security-hardening/) _2026-02-13 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Your AI agent has access to your email, calendar, and files. Here's how to lock it down properly, from baseline security to zero-trust architecture. ## [How to Set Up OpenClaw on Windows with WSL2 (The Real Guide)](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/openclaw-windows-wsl-setup/) _2026-02-10 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ A complete, battle-tested guide to running OpenClaw on Windows via WSL2. Every gotcha, every fix, every thing the docs don't tell you. ## [A Fiber Cut at 2 PM Taught Me Why I Needed to Build Watchtower](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/building-watchtower/) _2026-01-22 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ A fiber cut at 2 PM exposed gaps in our network monitoring. So I built Watchtower, a real-time NOC dashboard integrating LibreNMS, InfluxDB, and FastAPI. ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7Tv9fguy9u4r) _2026-01-21 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [Glengarry Brigade skate into January holding fourth spot of division standings](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/glengarry-brigade-skate-into-january) _2026-01-06 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ County's junior B hockey team holds 0.534 winning percentage ## [High school hockey takes over Williamstown rink on Tuesday, Wednesday](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/high-school-hockey-takes-over-williamstown) _2026-01-06 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ Boys tournament scheduled Tuesday, girls event on Wednesday ## [How I Built an Open-Source SOC for a Network Engineering Lab](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/building-open-source-soc/) _2025-12-01 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ How I designed and deployed a full open-source SOC with Wazuh, TheHive, Cortex, MISP, Zeek, and Suricata for a network engineering lab, plus the integration work that made it usable. ## [Moving a 6-node NETLAB+ cluster off VMware to Proxmox](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/vmware-to-proxmox-migration/) _2025-08-15 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Broadcom's per-core licensing made a working VMware cluster financially indefensible. The hypervisor swap was the easy part. Pulling pods over the WAN and a Proxmox 9 upgrade that blew the whole thing up are the parts worth reading about. ## [3 Days, 18 Hours: What I Learned at NDG's Proxmox Workshop](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/ndg-proxmox-workshop/) _2025-07-10 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ What NDG's 18-hour Proxmox VE 8 workshop actually taught me about storage, clustering, NETLAB+, Windows 11, backups, and building an academic lab environment that survives real use. ## [Around the rinks: catching up with all things hockey in Glengarry and beyond](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/around-the-rinks-catching-up-with) _2025-04-12 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ A review of hockey seasons for local teams and skaters plying their skills on pro rinks ## [Terre des Jeunes flag football program operates thanks to community volunteers](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/terre-des-jeunes-flag-football-program) _2025-04-06 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ Representatives of the Cornwall Wildcats Football Club teach kids facets of the game ## [Lafave eyes 2026 Boston Marathon qualification](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/lafave-eyes-2026-boston-marathon) _2025-04-06 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ Senior long-distance runner achieved the 2025 mark ## [Twenty-six compete in inaugural fat bike race at Summerstown Trails](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/twenty-six-compete-in-inaugural-fat) _2025-04-06 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ Ideal conditions for March 8 event ## [Canadian U23 wrestling team set to compete at Pan-American Championships in Mexico](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/canadian-u23-wrestling-team-set-to) _2025-04-06 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ Competition runs April 10-12 in Querétaro, Mexico. ## [Summerstown Trails to host fat bike race on March 8](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/summerstown-trails-to-host-fat-bike) _2025-03-07 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ Read more ## [When I used to shoot hockey photos](https://sportsguysean.substack.com/p/when-i-used-to-shoot-hockey-photos) _2025-03-05 · Sean Bray · sportsguysean’s hat trick_ Read more ## [Intel Workbench: Fighting Your Own Brain with Structured Analysis](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/building-intel-workbench/) _2025-02-03 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Building a structured analysis tool for intelligence work. Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, evidence weighting, and fighting cognitive bias with software. ## [CyberBRIEF: Because Nobody Reads Page 8](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/building-cyberbrief/) _2025-02-02 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Building an automated threat intelligence tool that delivers BLUF briefings with MITRE ATT&CK mapping, IOC extraction, and multi-source aggregation. ## [Playbook Forge: Because Nobody Reads the Binder at 2 AM](https://solomonneas.dev/blog/building-playbook-forge/) _2025-01-31 · Solomon Neas | Blog_ Building an incident response playbook generator that creates NIST-aligned, role-specific runbooks. Because nobody reads the binder during an actual incident.