From Latin artificium — craftsmanship

Artifice Machine

Castings and findings in artificial intelligence.

Projects, notes, and records from a small workshop building tools, protocols, and systems for thinking with machines.

Current Work

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What is being made now. The workshop is small by design. Each project here is active for a reason: to test an idea, solve a real problem, or leave behind a better tool than the one that existed before.

2026 active

Morpheme

Agent Security Command Center — the hidden machinery behind AI agent workflows.

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2026 active

Synod

A protocol for structured multi-agent session continuity and task handoff.

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Selected Writing

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What is being learned now. Essays, field notes, failures, technical decisions, and the occasional longer argument. A record of the work and what it taught.

A note on authorship

Artifice Machine is the workshop. @newblacc is the person who runs it. The split is deliberate. The workshop publishes the work. The person takes responsibility for making it. This site keeps both visible without confusing one for the other.

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How the work is approached

  1. 01

    Build the harness, not just the model.

  2. 02

    Keep the workshop small enough to understand.

  3. 03

    Sign the work. Take responsibility for it.

  4. 04

    Record the failures. They are part of the record.

  5. 05

    Make tools that outlast the moment that produced them.

The record

Older work stays visible. Not everything here is current. Some things are finished. Some are paused. Some were wrong in useful ways. The archive exists so the record stays honest.