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AgentWrangler

A local dashboard for what your Claude Code sessions cost. It reads your session transcripts on your own machine and shows where the tokens go and whether a change helped. No account, no telemetry. Built offline (3,686 commits across 57 active days) and released on GitHub and npm as a curated export of that private repo.

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LIVE · PILOT

ReadySetBind

Turns an insurance quote PDF into a ready-to-sign bind package — the AI reads the fields, a human verifies every one, then it routes to the underwriter. A live pilot.

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TariffRefunded

Tariff-refund recovery for small importers. Protest windows close on a fixed legal schedule and the refund pool shrinks 8–10% a month, so the whole product races the clock. Free analysis; broker partnership in progress.

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CASE STUDY

AgentWrangler is out. GitHub shows 78 commits; the real number is 3,686

The local Claude Code token dashboard I teased in August is public on GitHub and npm. The public repo is a filtered copy of a private build, and nothing reaches it without passing scans for secrets and personal data.

OCT 2026 · 8 MIN
CASE STUDY

The cheap model failed its own exam

CareerHub is the private pipeline I built to run my own job search. The most useful thing it did was fail a cheaper model on an exam it couldn't cheat on.

OCT 2026 · 9 MIN
METHODOLOGY

Let Claude conduct, let Codex build

Claude workers were draining my weekly allowance. I moved implementation to Codex and kept Claude planning and reviewing. Here's what the token logs showed, what broke, and how the skills have changed.

AUG 2026 · 9 MIN
Trust belongs in the schema, not the application.
The operating principle behind every project here. A rule the database enforces can't be forgotten in a hurry. Constraints, denied-by-default access, append-only logs — the controls that hold are the ones the system won't run without.