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  <item><title>Files Move. Platforms Don&#x27;t.</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/files-move-platforms-dont.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/files-move-platforms-dont.html</guid><pubDate>2026-08-02</pubDate><description>I shipped a complete product vision this week as a folder of files any AI can build from. On provider-agnostic systems, and why the file is the only interface that survives.</description></item>
  <item><title>One Token, Twenty-Seven Dashboards</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/one-token-twenty-seven-dashboards.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/one-token-twenty-seven-dashboards.html</guid><pubDate>2026-07-31</pubDate><description>I picked a typeface for a website and ended up re-typesetting an entire operating system. What that actually took, including the contrast failure I couldn&#x27;t see by eye.</description></item>
  <item><title>I Taught My Investment Agent to Refuse</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/i-taught-my-investment-agent-to-refuse.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/i-taught-my-investment-agent-to-refuse.html</guid><pubDate>2026-07-30</pubDate><description>The most important function in my new portfolio agent is the one that throws an error when the output starts sounding like advice. On designing the boundary before the feature.</description></item>
  <item><title>Under the Hood: The Sideline Board</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/under-the-hood-sideline-board.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/under-the-hood-sideline-board.html</guid><pubDate>2026-07-30</pubDate><description>I coach 3rd/4th-grade soccer. I asked my OS for a tool that guarantees equal playing time and works with zero connectivity at the field. The constraints did the designing.</description></item>
  <item><title>Under the Hood: The Patch Archive</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/under-the-hood-patch-archive.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/under-the-hood-patch-archive.html</guid><pubDate>2026-07-30</pubDate><description>How a passion project became a verified digital archive in two sessions — the brief I gave, what the AI proposed, and the correction pass that caught a four-year-stale fact.</description></item>
  <item><title>A Claim Ledger for the Person You Market</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/a-claim-ledger-for-the-person-you-market.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/a-claim-ledger-for-the-person-you-market.html</guid><pubDate>2026-07-30</pubDate><description>My publishing pipeline refuses to export any artifact containing a claim it can&#x27;t trace to a source file. This week it caught my own website exaggerating. On building a truth system for the person you market.</description></item>
  <item><title>Under the Hood: This Site</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/under-the-hood-this-site.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/under-the-hood-this-site.html</guid><pubDate>2026-07-30</pubDate><description>This website was designed and built in one day with my OS — including the moment its own accessibility math overruled our brand color. The full iteration log, since you&#x27;re standing in the output.</description></item>
  <item><title>Designing Enterprise AI for Non-Technical Users</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/enterprise-ai-non-technical-users.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/enterprise-ai-non-technical-users.html</guid><pubDate>2026-06-12</pubDate><description>What Mantium taught me about making model capability legible to people who will never read a prompt guide.</description></item>
  <item><title>The End of the Second Brain</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/agentic-factory-business-operating-system.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/agentic-factory-business-operating-system.html</guid><pubDate>2026-06-12</pubDate><description>Knowledge management was never the goal. Why I&#x27;m building an agentic operating system instead of another notes app.</description></item>
  <item><title>Your Files Are Dead. Here&#x27;s What Comes Next</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/your-files-are-dead-heres-what-comes-next.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/your-files-are-dead-heres-what-comes-next.html</guid><pubDate>2026-06-12</pubDate><description>Files made sense when humans were the only readers. On moving from documents you organize to context a system can act on.</description></item>
  <item><title>The Agent Deployer: A New Role Emerges</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/agent-deployer-new-ai-role.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/agent-deployer-new-ai-role.html</guid><pubDate>2026-06-12</pubDate><description>Between the engineer and the end user there&#x27;s a new job: the person who deploys, governs, and owns agents in production.</description></item>
  <item><title>Tripling Content Output With a Four-Person Team</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/arloa-content-ai-automation.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/arloa-content-ai-automation.html</guid><pubDate>2026-06-12</pubDate><description>The Claude Code content pipeline behind Arloa — 4 to 12+ pieces a month without adding headcount, and without losing the brand.</description></item>
  <item><title>A Trading Agent With a Human Approval Loop</title><link>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/robinhood-trading-agent-prompts-human-approval-loop.html</link><guid>https://www.skeltonmedia.com/blog/robinhood-trading-agent-prompts-human-approval-loop.html</guid><pubDate>2026-06-12</pubDate><description>Building a Robinhood agent that proposes and never executes — prompts, guardrails, and why the approval loop is the product.</description></item>
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