TheFocus.AI Labs · Quarterly editions
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Reports from our team — to our clients, ourselves, and our agents. Every quarter is a numbered issue with its own name, its own look, and a retrospective on what the work taught us.
On the stand now · Q3 2026
Crosstalk
How agents talk — to each other, to your tools, and to the world outside the box. The humans move up a level.
The issue in progress, and the run's threads converge. Skills become alignment surfaces — mattpocock/skills v1.1 and the align-spec-ticket-build loop a whole team or fleet can pass around — while the WIRE vertical runs alongside: protocols, wires, and everything agents say to reach past their own context. The World's Fair report finds the entire field arriving at our 2025 trial results from every direction: the model is no longer the bottleneck — the harness, the context, and your attention are. Two years ago tool calling made chat programmable; now the calls run agent-to-agent, and the human's job is the switchboard.
Set in Dither Night
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Back issues
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Q2 2026
Dispatches
Filed from the floor — the patterns unfreeze in Miami, and the Linux moment arrives on the laptop.
1950s Press Comic
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Q1 2026
Proofs
Show your work — 131 models, honest margins, and the thesis that it's agents all the way down.
Leonardo Codex
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Q4 2025
Instruments
Reading the gauges — before you trust an agent, you need instruments that show you when it's lying.
Oscilloscope
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Q3 2025
The Console
Moving into the terminal — the agents live where the work lives, and code becomes disposable material.
WarGames Raster
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Q2 2025
Field Trials
Take the tools outside and see what breaks — agents become products, and products can be raced.
RAND Report
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Q1 2025
Blueprints
Drawing up the system — memory, MCP, structured output: the quarter the chat window stopped being the product.
Bell Labs Drafting
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Q4 2024
Sketches
The notebook opens — eighteen months of prehistory behind it, and one question: what can these things actually make?
Graph-Paper Notebook