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Tech Note2026.10.06

The tools our agent built for itself were not canvas nodes

Geny agents build their own tools mid-chat, yet users could not see them. Making those tools visible overturned three of our assumptions along the way.

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Tech NoteThe Ontology Diary2026.07.06

URIs built from names merged two people into one (Part 10)

We used the database's types and keys directly. Identifiers made from display names merge namesakes and split renamed rows.

Tech NoteThe Harness Diary2026.07.01

The tools were listed but couldn't be called (Part 9)

An allowlist meant to narrow search scope also dropped the tools the user had connected by hand. Name, schema, and permission at three moments.

Tech NoteThe Ontology Diary2026.06.30

The job reported success and the graph was empty (Part 9)

Switching to a small local model left batches unfinished, and jobs recorded as successful left an empty graph. Truncation arrived as empty results.

Tech NoteThe Ontology Diary2026.06.24

Document dedup was merging structured tables (Part 8)

We built ten CSV tables and the post-processed graph held four classes. A rule for tidying document concepts had merged schema identifiers.

Tech NoteThe Harness Diary2026.06.22

Letting the nearest memory always win was wrong (Part 8)

A session request is more specific than a platform policy, so it seemed it should win. Left that way, a user could override policy.

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