✦ The Piston 1 Logs

Notes from the lab

Working notes on AI engineering and agent systems research, published as the work happens rather than after it's polished.

Jun 28, 2026 Inference Pipeline Optimization Continuous batching and KV-cache reuse — full write-up with benchmarks. Inference Engineering Jun 20, 2026 Retrieval Architecture for Agent Context Vector indices designed for reliable multi-step agent retrieval. Agent Architecture Jun 10, 2026 Tool & Context Schema Design Patterns A taxonomy of tool and context schemas for consistent agent behavior. Agent Architecture May 28, 2026 Agent Observability & Tracing Tracking decision provenance across multi-step agent pipelines. Agent Architecture