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Not news, not short posts. This is methodology knowledge: branding, AI visibility, SEO, content strategy; distilled from real practice and designed to be read more than once.
What Is Local-First MCP, and When Do You Need Ingress?
Local-first MCP prioritizes same-machine loopback connections and enables ingress only when a web client needs remote access. Learn when to choose Local or Web and reduce unnecessary network exposure.
MCP Errors 401 and 503: Token or Ingress?
MCP 401 means the token is invalid, while 503 means ingress is unavailable for a Web connection. Test Local first and Web second to identify the failing layer.
What Is an MCP Server? Model Context Protocol Explained
An MCP server is the bridge that lets AI like Claude and ChatGPT read files and run tools on your machine. Understand the Model Context Protocol, remote MCP, OAuth 2.1, and how to start safely.
Rules for AI Coding Agents: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and Agent Skills
Rules for AI coding agents are files like CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and Agent Skills that keep an agent on your architecture and cut repeat prompts. Why cramming too many rules backfires, and how to do it right.
Whitelist vs. blocklist for MCP shells: aki-mcp-sv's security architecture
An MCP server exposing shell access to the internet has to choose between whitelist and blocklist. Comparing aki-mcp-sv with Desktop Commander, mcp-remote, and Anthropic's official server-filesystem, plus how each client authenticates over OAuth 2.1.
Role Collapse and Self-Approval: Why a Single AI Agent Always Praises Its Own Code
Why an AI agent that plays every role always praises its own code, and how an agent council separates roles and isolates context to resolve the conflict of interest.
The akiflow Activation Gate: When to Open an AI Agent Council
The three-condition activation gate in akiflow decides whether a task deserves an agent council, along with the three modes (discuss, audit, execute) and the two shapes (council, dispatch).
Fighting Sycophancy and Role Collapse in Agent Councils: akiflow's Un-forked Reviewer
Sycophancy and role collapse make an agent praise its own code. akiflow counters them with a reviewer spawned fresh from a clean context that receives only the diff and closing criteria, plus five role-separated agent definitions.
Micro-Council: A Small AI Council That Picks Mechanisms by Shortfall to Keep Cost Low
akiflow convenes only the seats a request needs and picks the mechanism (cheap subagent, strong subagent, debating council) by what is missing: bandwidth, continuity, independence, or debate.
What is AI Branding?
AI Branding makes a brand understood and mentioned correctly by AI systems: the foundations, the limits and where to start.
What is a Brand Entity? Why Google Needs to Understand Your Brand
A Brand Entity is the brand as search engines and AI identify it, kept distinct from similar names, and how to build consistent signals for it.
What is LLM Visibility? How to Measure Brand Presence in AI
LLM Visibility is how often AI assistants mention a brand and describe it correctly: where AI gets its information, how to measure it and how to improve it.
Check if AI Understands Your Brand: Prompt Set for ChatGPT and Gemini
Two prompt sets to check what AI says about your brand, how to read the results and the limits of a manual check.
Schema for Brand SEO/AIO: Talking Directly to the Bots
Use structured data (Schema.org, JSON-LD) to declare your brand entity clearly to Google and other systems, with the limits worth knowing.
Building Content Clusters: How to Own a Knowledge Domain for AI
A Topic Cluster is a way to organize posts around one subject: structure, an example and the limits.
What is a favicon and why does it matter for digital branding?
The history of the .ico format, how browsers look for a favicon on their own, the iOS Safari black-corner bug, the Android safe-zone trap and AkiTao's minimal 5-file set.
What is a PWA and standard Progressive Web App configuration guide
The Service Worker lifecycle, four caching strategies, manifest setup with Share Target and File Handlers, and the limits of PWAs on iOS Safari.
What is AI Branding and AI visibility?
AI visibility is whether AI mentions your brand correctly, with cited sources: the four components and the limits of AI Branding.