Give agents a system, not a blank canvas
Why bounded choices, generated contracts, and actionable validation make agents more useful website collaborators.
Sights insights
Field notes on building websites as systems.
The product principles are practical: constrain the right surface, make every capability visible, keep content portable, and let tested behavior improve more than one page.
Latest writing
The thinking behind the contracts
These articles are themselves collection-backed Sights content: typed records, local media, templated routes, sanitized Markdown, and generated Article metadata.
Static-first is operational design
Static output is not nostalgia. It is a deliberate reduction in runtime surface, deployment coupling, and hidden failure modes.
Component contracts compound
A component becomes infrastructure when its schema, guidance, examples, semantics, runtime, and tests travel together.
From ideas to implementation
See the product principles operating on this site.
The platform pages connect each belief to a concrete content, component, theme, delivery, quality, or extension contract.