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The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp

Aug 22, 2026 · 20:51

Safia Abdalla, an engineer at Warp, explains how her team built the Oz cloud agent platform on the principle that platforms should absorb complexity before the user sees it. Agents run in managed or self-hosted sandboxes; the platform supports multiple harnesses consistently. Users can orchestrate sub-agents by prompt or via an API exposed across the stack, and non-engineers used the SDK to build Slack bots for triaging social mentions. Abdalla recounts open-sourcing Warp: stars grew from about 20,000 to over 60,000, with thousands of PRs; agents triage issues and review every PR, so humans only see high-signal ones. She rejects 'software factory' as losing the people in it, offering a potter's workshop: stations, sourcing, verification, and an observable, improvable, cost-effective system.

LLM Knowledge Bases: a practical guide — Ben Holmes, Warp

Aug 12, 2026 · 21:17

Ben Holmes, Developer Relations Lead at Warp, demonstrates how to turn a disorganized folder of voice-dictated notes into a browsable, interconnected knowledge base using LLM agents. He argues that voice dictation at 200 words per minute is the fastest capture method, recommending local tools like Handy and Voice Ink to avoid subscriptions. Holmes explains his 'enrich note' skill, which timestamps files, assigns tags from a fixed list to prevent Claude from inventing new ones, researches sources via web search, and adds backlinks through key term search. He then shows how to generate wikis from a Karpathy gist, grouping people, concepts, and organizations, and automates the entire pipeline on a daily schedule using Obsidian's headless CLI in a cloud sandbox via Oz.dev. Finally, he demonstrates asking an agent to build an HTML and Tailwind graph view of all notes, revealing clusters of interests and gaps in thinking.