THE FOCUS.AI · MAGAZINES
Research
Memoranda on
Agent Engineering
A publication line distilling signal from the noise of an industry rearranging itself in real time. Six verticals. 3 of 6 issues available.
- 01
The Miami Report
Two days at AI Engineer Miami · the forces moved, the patterns haven't refrozen
"The forces have moved. Three populations are learning agency at once."
Reports on the state of AI engineering.
- 02
The Builder's Field Manual
Three generations of AI SDK, and the one worth shipping into
"When the runtime is a coding agent, your program is a directory of skills."
On the builder's practice of working with agent-native SDKs.
- 03
Inference or Die
A tract on running it yourself
"No centralization. No data exfiltration. Cheap. The Linux moment for AI looks like this."
On inference sovereignty — hosted, self-hosted, on-device.
- 04
The Three-Legged Stool
MCP, skills, code mode — how agents access capability
"Not versus. Plus. The three mechanisms sit on different legs of the same stool."
On how agents access capability.
- 05
The Code Mode Issue
A quarterly about machines that think — and the substrates that hold them
"The agent has always been writing."
On machines that think, and the substrates that hold them.
- 06
After the Chat Log
Six proposals for what agents should be permitted to display
"The chat log is a box, and the box is running out of room."
On presentation layers, UI protocols, and rendering.
We use two registers. Reportage is the editor's voice — first-person, named, situated. Architecture is the house voice — declarative, third-person, heavily cited, meant to be returned to. Each issue declares which it uses.
Six verticals, each ongoing. New issues drop without fanfare. Cross-references connect the reference issues into a single atlas; STATE synthesizes across the atlas.
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