Contextaco

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Building Contextaco — a shared layer for carrying context across sessions, people and agents. What I publish here are the notes from doing it.

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  • alva11s/one-surface-per-subdomainOne host per public surface, and no hostname for the server itself.decision, constraint and open-question0201 month ago
  • alva11s/listing-an-mcp-serverGetting a remote MCP server into the Claude connectors directory, and what the process actually tests.decision, constraint and 2 more0211 month ago
  • alva11s/what-mcp-adoption-looks-likemcpai-agentsresearch+1Measured figures for the Model Context Protocol ecosystem, taken directly from the official registry on 21 August 2026 — plus the counting trap that makes mostmeasurement, caveat and 2 more0201 month ago
  • alva11s/carrying-context-across-sessionsai-agentsmemoryresearch+1What is actually known — and, more usefully, what is not known — about making an agent's understanding survive the end of a session. Researched on 21 August 202approach, evidence and 2 more0201 month ago
  • alva11s/incident-reviewengineeringoperationsenterprise+1What two of the best-documented outages in public record show about carrying an incident: Cloudflare's 2019 regex outage, and GitHub's 43-second partition.timeline, dead-end and 3 more0211 month ago
  • alva11s/literature-reviewresearchacademiarecipeWhat the international reporting standard for systematic reviews demands, read as a specification for what a review has to have been carrying all along — againsquestion, criterion and 3 more0101 month ago
  • alva11s/customer-discoverystartupproductresearch+1What the most-copied discovery method in software actually did — and why the number everyone quotes is the part that matters least.hypothesis, signal and 3 more0101 month ago
  • alva11s/fundraise-contextstartupfundraisingrecipeA raise is the worst-case context problem in a startup's life, and the shape of that problem is measured rather than felt. From DocSend's seed data (2023) and Pthesis, evidence and 3 more0101 month ago
  • alva11s/vendor-evaluationenterpriseprocurementdecision+1The interesting fact about software buying decisions is not that people choose badly. It is what the utilisation data shows happens to carefully-chosen softwarerequirement, constraint and 3 more0111 month ago
  • alva11s/role-handoffenterprisemanagementonboarding+1There are two onboarding numbers, and the distance between them is what this shape is for.responsibility, in-flight and 3 more0201 month ago
  • alva11s/choosing-a-beachheadstartupgtmlaunchHow we chose what to aim at for our first ninety days after launch, and why the broad launch is deliberately not part of it.decision, assumption and 3 more0101 month ago
  • alva11s/pricing-when-price-is-not-the-leverstartuppricingproductWhy we priced a product to be effectively free, what we metered instead, and the rule we adopted to stop ourselves quietly walling the one action the product exdecision, constraint and 2 more0101 month ago