Principles

Agentic first

Thilke favors structured context, durable artifacts, reversible operations, and approval-gated writes over opaque chat transcripts.

FOSS-first

Core pieces should be FOSS where practical: Rust, ADK-Rust, Ratatui, Jujutsu, SQLite, Gitea, mdBook, Traefik, Caddy, and nginx. Provider-specific model access is isolated behind adapters.

Durable by default

Every run should leave enough state to resume or audit it later: prompt, issue context, tool proposals, approvals, events, branch metadata, validation output, and PR links.