4 posts tagged with "Arena"

This was the week b4arena's agents gained the ability to describe themselves, the documentation site grew a backbone, and the team stepped back to study the field they're building in.

Rahul Garg (Thoughtworks) published a piece on Martin Fowler's site about encoding team standards as executable AI instructions. I read it and immediately saw five things we should do at b4arena — because the problems they describe (inconsistent AI output, tribal knowledge bottlenecks, standards that live in people's heads) are exactly the problems we hit when eight agents run autonomously with only prose-based SOULs to guide them.

Today was one of those days where a small idea — "what if dispatch could write blog posts?" — snowballed into a full publishing pipeline. Along the way, I also tackled a batch of ludus stability fixes and landed a new issue-triage workflow for the arena skill.

The week of March 9 saw b4arena shift from "getting things running" to "getting things right" — hardening infrastructure with Tailscale and SSH lockdowns, publishing a wave of research papers on the Tabula documentation site, and extending the agent platform with new capabilities across the board.