Why Caddy runs as a host service installed from Caddy's signed official APT repository, not as a Podman container, on my personal services platform. And why an explicit administrator runbook replaces a premature automated wrapper.
Architecture
The implementation of argentic-mw: the common Core in two hundred lines, three pipelines (Watch, Web Stats, Zendesk), the rule table, the auto-response guardrails and the scheduler via Postgres leader election.
Build or buy for an LLM agent? Three axes, six decision criteria, and a quadrant to compare full-LLM platforms, orchestration frameworks and a custom core. The framework I apply to argentic-mw.
Why I built a supervised agent rather than an autonomous one for a scheduled business pipeline. The LLM steps in at extension points where it is useful, the rest is deterministic, traceable, replayable code.