ARTICLES
Articles
Articles that connect theory and practice — concrete cases of how patterns and the model behave in real implementations, and the design decisions and thinking we wrestled with while improving the architecture.
- Token Strategy — Efficiency, Balance, Aggressive, and StaffingSaving tokens and burning them are both strategies. Run the same loop in three modes — efficiency, balance, aggressive — and allocate mode and people to the business situation and evolution stage. This piece organizes token usage as a technical choice.token-strategycost-controlstaffingOCLSoperations
- The Data Flywheel — Making the Loop Improve, Not Just PersistMoney runs the loop and tokens power the compute, but what makes the next turn better than the last is the data the operation accumulates. Turn the flywheel with three assets — traces, evals, learning signals — and keep data as an asset outside the model to preserve sovereignty.data-flywheeldata-sovereigntytraceprivate-evalOCLS
- The Business Economics of the Loop — Earning and Surviving on TokensControlling cost alone does not sustain the loop. Read the revenue structure as token unit cost and margin, and choose how to survive among three paths — self-sustaining, investment, ecosystem. This piece lays out each path's realistic problems and best- and worst-case scenarios in the vocabulary of reopt architecture's evolution stages.token-economyunit-economicsbusiness-modelsustainabilityOCLS
- Model Sovereignty and Human Agency — Two Axes on the Four LayersModels get swapped and compute gets cheap. So what you control is not the model but the learning loop you build on top of it, and what aims that loop is human direction. This piece translates both axes into design using the vocabulary of reopt architecture's four layers, eight patterns, and OCLS loop.model-sovereigntyhuman-agencygovernanceOCLSprivate-eval
- Running the reopt architecture five-phase loop in Claude CodeA practical guide that maps the Assess→Define→Loop→Execute→Evaluate methodology onto Claude Code's CLAUDE.md auto-load, slash commands, sub-agents, and skills — applied to a real repository.claude-codeworkflowOCLSgovernancemethodology
- Implementing Reopt Agentic Governance: from assessment to systemHow a production SaaS running eight AI agents used reopt architecture's principles to diagnose its governance gaps and close them — universal audit logging, persistent approval records, MCP tracing and rate limiting, agent constraints, and an admin dashboard.reoptproductionauditapprovalMCPgovernanceguardrails
- Building the Agent Catalog architecture with opt-harnessA practical case study of using @reopt-ai/opt-harness, the design-governance harness package, to translate the Agent Catalog's architecture principles into a real product implementation.opt-harnessarchitecturegovernanceMCPrecipes