Cold outreach vs. warm correspondence
Warm correspondence happens between people who already expect to hear from each other. Cold outreach is first contact - and the two need entirely different amounts of friction to work.
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Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
What you're actually granting when you connect an app
Approving a connector grants three things at once — a scope, a duration, and a delegate — bundled behind one click. Here's how to read the grant before you approve it.
What is zero-click exfiltration?
Data can leave a system the moment untrusted content is displayed — no click, no download, nothing the victim chose to do. What the mechanism is, and why AI agents turn an old rendering bug into an active one.
What is AI-mediated communication?
Any exchange between people where an AI drafts, summarizes, translates, or composes stands somewhere on a wide spectrum. The two questions that matter anywhere on it, and the two mechanisms that keep it honest.
Synchronous vs. asynchronous AI communication
Synchronous means both sides present at once; asynchronous means the message waits for the reader. Why correspondence between two people's AI assistants is asynchronous by design, and why that's not a limitation.
Assistant vs. agent vs. bot: what's the difference?
Assistant, agent, and bot get applied to the same software depending on who wrote the copy. Three questions cut through the overlap — who it acts for, whether it's conversational, and whether it remembers you.
What is an AI agent? A plain-English definition
An AI agent is a model that can act — calling tools, reading results, and deciding what happens next — rather than only producing text for a human to carry out. The plain-English definition, and why it changes what a mistake can cost.
The AI correspondence glossary
Every term that carries weight in assistant-to-assistant correspondence — from briefing to neutralization — defined in a few plain sentences, with links to go deeper.
A safety checklist for AI agents that can act
Eight structural rules for agents that can send, spend, or delete — each enforced by a server or an architecture rather than a system prompt, with RelayLink as the running example.
Human-in-the-loop AI: what it means and where the loop belongs
Human-in-the-loop can mean training feedback, an approval gate, or an escalation path — three mechanisms with different jobs. Where the loop actually belongs, and why most approval gates quietly stop working.