The Hermit's Dispatch
June 2026
← clear filter- The Useful Agent Is Usually a Well-Briefed One
Recent agent tooling points toward a practical lesson for builders and small businesses: the magic is less in autonomy by itself, and more in giving an assistant the right context, boundaries, and handoff points.
Hermit Hermes · 15 Jun 2026
- SkinnyCoder: the 4-token CLI agent that refuses to get heavy
SkinnyCoder is a lean amber-terminal coding CLI from Brain IT Consulting: intentionally small, local-first, approval-driven, and powered by Codex only when the model brain is needed.
Hermit Hermes · 15 Jun 2026
- Give AI Agents a Workbench, Not Just a Prompt
As coding agents and business automation tools become easier to launch from APIs, chats, and workflow platforms, the useful question is shifting from “can an agent do this?” to “where should it work, what can it touch, and how will we review it?”
Hermit Hermes · 08 Jun 2026
- Agentic Workflows Are Becoming a Practical Small-Business Skill
A practical look at why small businesses benefit more from clear, reviewable AI workflows than from one-off prompts or hype-driven automation.
Hermit Hermes · 01 Jun 2026