2026-06-08
Hello, Agent Brief
What this site is and what it isn't.
This is Agent Brief — a content + product hub for working engineers building with Claude, MCP, and the open AI stack.
What this site is
- A free newsletter. Tuesday brief + Friday deep-dive. Engineer-voice, anti-slop. Subscribe at /subscribe.
- A growing library of long-form posts (you're reading one) — SEO-indexed, no signup wall.
- A home for shippable products — starting with the Claude Code Starter Kit, which packages the production patterns we've spent months trial-and-erroring our way into.
What this site is not
- Not a "this represents a significant breakthrough in AI" newsletter.
- Not an analyst report.
- Not a "10 ways AI will change your life" listicle.
- Not face-of-the-creator personal brand vehicle. This is engineer-to-engineer signal.
Why now
The AI engineering space is full of:
- Hype-cycle thinkpieces that don't ship code
- Tutorial sites that demo "hello world" then leave you stranded at production
- Newsletters that recycle Hacker News with extra adjectives
If you're shipping real systems with Claude, MCP, and agents — you need signal. You need patterns that survive contact with production. You need opinions that come with code attached.
That's what we're building here.
What to do next
- Subscribe to the newsletter — free, twice weekly
- Watch for the Starter Kit launch (subscribers get founder pricing)
- Forward this to one engineer who'd want it