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CHRIS KIRBY

Engineering leader. Homelab operator. Builder.

Notes from the rack and the editor. What's changing in the homelab, what I'm thinking about as an engineering leader, and what I'm building and researching with AI and agents.

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posts: 55, since Nov 2013
latest: 12 Oct 2026 · routr - balanced orchestration across coding harnesses
topics: homelab · agentic · privacy · platform
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building: unifi-mcp · myco · goondocks

~/writing/latestagentic-engineering · 12 Oct 2026 · 12 min read

routr: one coding agent running a team across your AI subscriptions

routr - balanced orchestration across coding harnessesroutr helps you efficiently orchestrate compelx work across multiple harnesses. Controlling subscription burn evenly while mainting quality and improving speed.

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homelab · 04 Jul 2026 · 13 min read Highly Available DNS at home with UniFi and BGP anycast agentic-engineering · 08 Jun 2026 · 13 min read Myco Cortex - lifecycle-driven project intelligence for your agent harness agentic-engineering · 16 Apr 2026 · 5 min read From memory to intelligence - building at scale with agentic AI agentic-engineering · 15 Feb 2026 · 16 min read Solving the "Groundhog Day" Problem in AI Software Development: Introducing OAK privacy · 01 Aug 2025 · 8 min read Why Your Work Laptop Belongs in Its Own VLAN (and How to Do It) agentic-engineering · 20 Mar 2025 · 7 min read The Joy and Agony of Building with AI Agents

~/topics/01 Homelab DNS that never goes down, a UniFi network that runs itself, and services on a shelf the whole house depends on. 15 guides →

~/topics/02 Agentic Engineering Building software with agents, and building the tooling the agents need. 6 guides →

~/topics/03 Privacy A VLAN for the work laptop, and staying private on any budget. 2 guides →

~/topics/04 Platform Engineering Azure, CI/CD pipelines, and git migrations from the years I lived in them. 20 guides →

~/projects/unifi-mcpactive

UNIFI-MCP Three MCP servers for the UniFi suite, Network, Protect and Access, plus a cloud relay so agents can reach them from anywhere. Close to 300 tools, safe by default, with a Claude Code plugin to get started. github ↗

~/projects/mycoactive

MYCO The nervous system for AI-assisted software teams. Captures what happens across coding sessions, turns it into durable project knowledge, and routes the right context back to every agent and teammate. Works alongside Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and friends. github ↗

~/projects/routractive

ROUTR One lead agent running a team of others across the AI subscriptions you already pay for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity and Kiro. A decision model sizes each handoff and checks what comes back, so work lands on the right subscription at the right level. github ↗

~/projects/goondocksstudio

GOONDOCKS My independent project studio: practical open-source software and technology that supports charitable causes. Everything starts in the open. Some projects are backed by sponsors, some may grow into hosted services, and some are donated to organizations doing work that matters. goondocks.co ↗