Mission Logs

Engineering challenges, architectural decisions, and the philosophy behind building AI systems.

Claude Code
Loop Engineering
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Anthropic
Developer Tools

Loop Engineering in Claude Code: The Four Loop Patterns

2026-07-26
18 min read

Claude Code has four loop patterns: turn-based, goal-based (/goal), time-based (/loop and /schedule), and proactive routines. Which to use when, and how to make a loop actually finish.

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AI Engineering
Claude Code
Antigravity
Developer Tools
Token Efficiency

Two AI Coding Agents, One Token Budget

2026-06-15
9 min read

Run Claude Code as the orchestrator and Antigravity's agy CLI as the worker so bulky legwork burns Google quota, not Claude tokens. Here's the split.

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FreeLM
AI Cost Optimization
Python
Node.js
Open Source

How to Build a Zero-Cost AI Stack with FreeLM

2026-06-07
7 min read

LLM API costs can kill a side project before it even launches. Here's how to pool OpenRouter, Gemini, NIM, and Groq using FreeLM to build a highly available, zero-cost AI stack for Python and Node.js.

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System Architecture
FreeLM
Failover
Python
Node.js

Handling LLM Rate Limits and Failovers Automatically

2026-06-07
8 min read

Rate limits (HTTP 429) are the silent killers of AI applications. Learn how freelm implements intelligent circuit breaking and provider failover to achieve 99.9% uptime on free tiers.

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FreeLM
Open Source
Founders
Node.js
Python

Why I Built FreeLM: A Free LLM Gateway for Python and JS

2026-06-07
6 min read

The story behind freelm: frustration with dead API keys, the fragmentation of free AI models, and the journey to build a unified open-source gateway.

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OpenAI
FreeLM
API Integration
Python
TypeScript

Drop-in OpenAI Compatibility with Free Tier LLMs using FreeLM

2026-06-07
5 min read

Don't rewrite your codebase to support multiple LLM providers. FreeLM provides a perfect OpenAI SDK shim that seamlessly routes traffic to Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, and NIM.

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