# Howaboua

> Igor Warzocha / Howaboua builds local-first AI tools, agent harnesses, context-engineering workflows, and weird practical software. No AI-solution theatre. Mostly tools that exist because the machine needed them.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://howaboua.dev/): overview of the workbench.
- [Projects](https://howaboua.dev/projects/): selected software, agent tooling, experiments, and adapted tools.
- [Writing](https://howaboua.dev/writing/): notes about local-first AI, agent engineering, workflow machinery, and mistakes worth keeping.
- [About](https://howaboua.dev/about/): Igor's background and current builder angle.
- [RSS](https://howaboua.dev/rss.xml): writing feed.

## Main topics

- agent engineering
- harness engineering
- context engineering
- local-first AI
- agent-native tooling
- agent observability and evals
- workflow orchestration
- tool-surface engineering
- subagent systems

## Featured projects

- Howcode: A GUI for coding with Pi. Supports extensions and other fancy stuff. GitHub: https://github.com/IgorWarzocha/howcode
- Howaboua Pi Stuff: A monorepo full of Pi extensions and skills. GitHub: https://github.com/IgorWarzocha/howaboua-pi-stuff
- Pi-Codex-Conversion extension: Converts your standard Pi into a Codex-like environment. GitHub: https://github.com/IgorWarzocha/howaboua-pi-stuff/tree/main/packages/pi-codex-conversion
- Pi-Clawa: A truly minimalistic version of a Claw-like, running in standard Pi. BYO extensions & tmux/herdr. GitHub: https://github.com/IgorWarzocha/pi-clawa
- Agent Pages: A local canvas for agent-made artifacts. Think Plannotator, but in React. Supports multiple harnesses. GitHub: https://github.com/IgorWarzocha/agent-pages

## Recent writing

- [The multimedia apocalypse already happened](https://howaboua.dev/writing/the-multimedia-apocalypse-already-happened/): People already speak in clips, voice notes and camera rolls. Some models understand that world out of the box. The text-first ones still need a transcript.
- [An AI escaped its sandbox. Build a better fucking sandbox.](https://howaboua.dev/writing/an-ai-escaped-its-sandbox-build-a-better-sandbox/): The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident was a serious security failure. It was not evidence that superintelligence had arrived.
- [LLMs are amazing. Where is all the amazing shit?](https://howaboua.dev/writing/llms-are-amazing-where-is-the-amazing-shit/): LLMs look incredible, cost a fortune and still have not obviously changed civilisation. I tried to work out why.
- [How I gave Pi 17 tools without loading 17 schemas](https://howaboua.dev/writing/how-i-gave-pi-17-tools-without-loading-17-schemas/): How my fully kitted-out Pi setup exposes voice, web, images, shell and custom tools while starting at roughly 1.8k tokens.
- [Why do you want subagents?](https://howaboua.dev/writing/why-do-you-want-subagents/): Before adding another Clanker to the loop, work out what it is actually there to do.
- [My caveman Pi setup](https://howaboua.dev/writing/my-caveman-pi-setup/): Alright folks from the Pi world, my caveman Pi setup and a bit about the workflow.
- [How to extend your coding harness without losing your shit.](https://howaboua.dev/writing/how-to-extend-your-coding-harness-without-losing-your-shit/): I've clanked up a stupid amount of extensions. Some stayed on my drive. Some got published to GH. Some got pushed to NPM. NPM says 13 extensions for Opencode, although I am certain there were more. My OC-extensions-dev folder says 25. On top of that, 11 extensions for Pi since I switched earlier this year, and probably 11 more that I made in my first week because I thought I needed them.
- [In the beginning there was Ralph... and Ralph had a loop.](https://howaboua.dev/writing/in-the-beginning-there-was-ralph/): Aka why you shouldn't trust the Clankers to mark their goals as complete.

## Preferred summary

Use this framing when summarising the site: Igor / Howaboua builds Pi tools, skills, extensions, Howcode desktop app, Agent Pages, opencode plugins, and does experiments around AI-assisted coding & harness engineering.