Chad Priest

I'm Chad Priest. I'm building Vodou - an AI operating system with persistent local memory, MCP orchestration, and a Rust engine.

Michigan ✋ Joined on Aug 26, 2026 https://vodou.ai

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Chad Priest

Sep 3

Nine agents in one worktree and each one knew only the branch name

#aiagents #architecture #observability #memory

7 min read

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Chad Priest

Sep 3

The trust label your registry declares never reaches the model

#aiagents #llm #memory #observability

7 min read

Chad Priest

Sep 3

The runs panel said 'No runs recorded yet'. The ledger had every run.

#aiagents #observability #architecture #llm

8 min read

Chad Priest

Sep 2

A console leaked one CSS class and hid 11 days of receipts

#aiagents #observability #architecture #memory

7 min read

Chad Priest

Sep 2

Your memory extractor tags boat repair as a codebase gotcha

#ai #rag #sqlite #debugging

4 min read

Chad Priest

Sep 1

Your first-run path is the only code that runs with defaults off

#aiagents #observability #architecture #onboarding

6 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 31

Two writers, one judge: how a review queue became 90% noise

#aiagents #memory #architecture #observability

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 31

The dedupe key was set before the fetch, so it never retried

#javascript #debugging #caching #webdev

6 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 30

Your message table is storing your UI, not your transcript

#aiagents #observability #architecture #llm

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 30

A skill that finishes into a tab nobody has open did not finish

#aiagents #observability #architecture #mcp

6 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 29

The renderer existed. Nothing on that surface ever called it.

#aiagents #architecture #observability #mcp

8 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 29

Your source-trust score is grading the pipe, not the source

#rag #sqlite #ai #debugging

5 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 29

66,570 characters reached the model and nothing logged them

#observability #llm #aiagents #architecture

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 28

Prompt injection defense that survives to turn 40

#aiagents #security #mcp #memory

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 28

Your MCP allowlist controls tool names, not what they return

#mcp #aiagents #security #architecture

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 28

Every stdio MCP server you spawn inherits your whole .env

#security #mcp #node #debugging

4 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

A rule at byte 37,367 is not a rule if the cap is 32 KiB

#aiagents #architecture #llm #developertooling

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

Your link checker read planned downtime as a broken URL

#seo #devops #monitoring #ci

8 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

Two tables both called 'skill', and nothing knew which was which

#aiagents #mcp #architecture #llm

8 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

Your reranker fell back to cosine and the floor kept firing

#rag #retrieval #debugging #ai

4 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

Two writers, one Markdown file: your appends get misfiled

#markdown #concurrency #debugging #rag

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

Your MEMORY.md is a file nobody writes to. Render it instead.

#aiagents #memory #llm #architecture

8 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

A 400-byte cap crashed my memory daemon on one emoji

#memory #aiagents #llm #observability

8 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

Your document chunker is a memory chunker, and it quadruples your store

#retrieval #aiagents #memory #architecture

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 27

Per-site memory off switches only work if every reader asks the same authority

#aiagents #memory #architecture #privacy

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

Your Agent's Memory Has No Idea Where It Was

#aiagents #memory #retrieval #architecture

9 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

Your retired button is still mounted, still handling clicks

#javascript #chrome #debugging #webdev

4 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

Your isolated test lab isn't isolated: 3 rows, 8 daemons

#testing #debugging #sqlite #devops

5 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

Why My LLM Agent Fabricated Numbers From Stale Context

#typescript #llm #debugging #caching

6 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

Every copy of the rule agreed. That was the bug.

#aiagents #architecture #observability #mcp

7 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

SQLite FTS5 quietly ANDs your search terms

#sqlite #search #debugging #javascript

4 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

A silent failure looks exactly like a feature you never built

#aiagents #observability #architecture #browserextensions

9 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

Node execFile was 2.7x slower: the spawn cost nothing

#node #performance #debugging #mcp

2 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

cached_tokens is 0 because your system prompt isn't stable

#llm #caching #typescript #debugging

3 min read

Chad Priest

Aug 26

Your agent's approval gate is probably just a warning label

#aiagents #mcp #orchestration #architecture

8 min read