Any paid Chrome extension can be rebuilt in 30 KB
Paid Chrome extensions are mostly paywall and analytics. With an AI agent you can rebuild any of them in one evening: 30 KB, no subscription.
Max Nardit
Systems engineer exploring orchestration, memory, and execution models for agent-native software.
I study what changes when reasoning enters the execution path of software: how humans coordinate with agents, how context persists across work, and how systems remain observable and recoverable as autonomy increases.
> building systems where
humans and agents
coordinate without losing context
Thesis
Operating thesis
Models are becoming capable enough to act inside workflows. The hard part is no longer just generating outputs — it is state, handoff, verification, recovery, and control.
That is the layer I care about.
Focus
Current areas
- Orchestration
- Execution layers, control planes, and coordination patterns for long-running agents.
- Memory & context
- Scoped state that survives beyond a prompt without becoming noise.
- Human-agent workflows
- Interfaces, handoffs, approvals, and override paths between humans and autonomous systems.
- Operational reliability
- Making agentic systems observable, recoverable, and safe to operate.
- Local-first tooling
- Private, low-latency environments where agents can interact with real work without losing local control.
Writing
Recent writing
The Invisible Backslash: How a Shell Escaping Bug Silently Corrupted 20 Releases
Tauri-action signing key kept failing after 20 working releases. The fix: a literal backslash hidden inside the password by shell-quote escaping.
How I Fixed OSC 52 Clipboard in xterm.js Through tmux
OSC 52 clipboard doesn't work in xterm.js through tmux. The fix isn't set-clipboard or terminal-features — it's allow-passthrough.
Artifacts
Selected artifacts
These projects are practical experiments around the same problem space: how context, memory, and control behave in human-agent workflows. They are intentionally narrow, local-first where possible, and built from problems I hit directly.
Beetroot
A local-first clipboard environment for preserving workflow context on Windows. AI transforms, OCR, smart search, unlimited history. Built around the idea that the clipboard is not temporary — it is part of workflow memory.
Learn more →
Clipboard MCP
A clipboard bridge between humans and AI agents. Read, write, and watch clipboard state through MCP. A small interaction primitive for agent-native workflows.
Learn more →
Share2Agent
A browser-to-agent handoff surface. Send pages into agent workflows through a webhook, preserving context at the moment of browsing.
Learn more →
Agent Recall
Scoped persistent memory for long-running coding agents. Local-first, MCP-native, designed so context survives across sessions without piling up.
Learn more →
Claude Usage Deck
A small operational monitor for Claude.ai limits.
Learn more →