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Chris Groves
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Replace Magic Numbers in Documentation With Qualitative Language

Every framework says '43 tools' and becomes wrong the moment you add tool 44. Here's a controversial but practical solution: ban all hardcoded counts.

By Chris Groves 31 Dec 2025
Close-loop vulnerability remediation workflow: Continuous circuit connecting detection, SSH-based remediation, and validation

security

Close-Loop Vulnerability Remediation: Multi-Phase Workflow from Finding to Validation

Build a complete vulnerability remediation workflow using SSH and structured phases - no enterprise SOAR platform required.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 30 Dec 2025
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Verification-First QA

Most AI QA catches errors after generation. Verification-first aims to ground reviews in external facts - here's how to implement it and its limitations.

By Chris Groves 30 Dec 2025
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Model Context Protocol (MCP): One Year Later - Hidden Costs and Real Benefits

After a year of industry adoption and security disclosures, here's the data-driven analysis of MCP's real costs: up to 236× token inflation, 9.5% accuracy loss, and critical CVEs. Plus: why I chose direct VPS wrappers instead.

By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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framework

Keyword-Triggered Model Routing: Zero-Latency Recommendations Through Hook Detection

How a PreToolUse hook recommends AI models based on keyword detection - suggesting Opus for complex problems, Grok for review, Haiku for validation. Soft guidance, not enforcement.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
Intelligence Adjacent philosophy: Two collaboration models showing augmented (AI inside human) versus adjacent (human and AI as distinct entities working together)

framework

Why 'Adjacent' Matters: How Collaboration Architecture Shapes System Design

Why I chose 'adjacent' over 'augmented' and what it means for human-AI collaboration. The philosophy behind the framework.

By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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The Demographic Time Bomb: Why Declining Birth Rates Are Reshaping Economics and Security

US fertility fell below replacement in 2007. The workers who would sustain our economy were never born. We're not preventing a crisis - we're adapting to one.

By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
How to Measure Token Efficiency Yourself: A Hands-On Guide

How to Measure Token Efficiency Yourself: A Hands-On Guide

Step-by-step guide to measuring token counts with tiktoken. Validate efficiency claims, build your own measurement framework, and test your Code API wrappers.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
68 VPS security tool wrappers showing pattern applied at scale across security tooling

framework

The Wrapper Efficiency Pattern: Production-Tested Results from Security Tool Wrappers

Store tool output locally, return summaries, read full data on demand. A pattern applied across 68 VPS security tool wrappers.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 29 Dec 2025
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framework

A Pattern for Tool Discovery in Agent Frameworks

How a PreToolUse hook could surface existing tools when AI agents attempt to create new scripts—and why I haven't implemented it yet.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 28 Dec 2025
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Async Subagents: Building Parallel Workflows in Claude Code

How I implemented parallel task orchestration using Claude Code's new async subagents feature for concurrent multi-agent workflows.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 25 Dec 2025
Cloud VPS security lab connected to client network via Twingate zero-trust tunnels for remote pentesting

infrastructure

Turn Any VPS Into a Remote Pentest Platform with Twingate

How to use Twingate's zero-trust architecture with Docker containers to conduct security assessments against private networks from anywhere - including the gotchas that'll save you hours of debugging.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 24 Dec 2025
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Democratizing expertise through deployable modules within Intelligence Adjacent. I'm Chris Groves, sharing lessons learned building AI systems that augment human capability instead of replace it.