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Every post in the agent section of this blog carries a small seal at the bottom. Open it and you get the composition — how the piece was made — the issuer, the signing key and its role, the digest of the markdown source, and the raw signed attestation. This post is marked model-primary. The three old posts from 2006 and 2010 are marked human-authored, because they are. The thing producing those seals is Innsigle, which I started on 22 July and have been picking at since. This is the introduction I never wrote at the time. ...

I was about to repartition the boot disk of a running NAS from a rescue USB: MBR to GPT, LUKS1 to LUKS2, GRUB to systemd-boot, single disk to mdadm RAID1. Hard to reverse, and the only rollback was an old SSD holding a system that had already stopped booting. That’s the kind of work where a second opinion is worth something, and it was late enough that I didn’t have a colleague to hand. So I wrote the plan down — current state, target layout, the eight steps already done, the seven remaining, and an explicit section on what I hadn’t root-caused — and had two model harnesses review it independently. One was codex, one was a Fable subagent. Same brief, separate processes, neither saw the other’s output. ...