Technical blog

How Chippy is built, in detail.

A terminal window over the sea painting, showing a repo's layout contract checked twice: once against a tree that matches it, a tick on every row, and once after a stray directory and a build output are added, a cross beside each.The layout2026-09-13Every repo has a shape. Almost nobody writes it down, and the ones who do write it in a README that is wrong… A terminal window over the sea painting, showing the index's census of each project in turn: every lane with its count, how many of its rows carry a checklist, and the oldest row in each.The index2026-09-12I run Chippy with agents, and the thing that made that work was not a better prompt. It was an index. A browser window over the sea painting, showing the harness with a film and its verification steps.Verification on film2026-09-12An agent tells you it works. It might. The question is what you would accept as proof from a stranger, and…