behindthestackExperiments from every layer of the stack. What was built, what broke, and the numbers that came out of it.https://behindthestack.in/A self-hosted assistant on a 64K budgethttps://behindthestack.in/lab/self-hosted-assistant/https://behindthestack.in/lab/self-hosted-assistant/One container, a chat front end, a knowledge-graph memory, and a provider that answered with nothing.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTMCP: sampling, tools, and who owns the tokenhttps://behindthestack.in/lab/mcp-sampling-tools-tokens/https://behindthestack.in/lab/mcp-sampling-tools-tokens/Wiring an agent to a helpdesk's MCP server. Three traps, each worth an afternoon.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTRecon fleets before building anythinghttps://behindthestack.in/lab/recon-fleets/https://behindthestack.in/lab/recon-fleets/Parallel agents that check the docs and the telemetry against reality before a line of new code.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA public Q&A bot, deployed twice by accidenthttps://behindthestack.in/lab/public-qa-bot/https://behindthestack.in/lab/public-qa-bot/Answering questions in public, and two deployments fighting over one bot token.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTStackHealthhttps://behindthestack.in/lab/stackhealth/https://behindthestack.in/lab/stackhealth/An open code-health benchmark with a formula you can read.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT