Shariq Hirani
Hi, I'm Shariq.
I build a few things, and break a lot of things.
Be a little reckless with new tools. Disciplined about everything else.
Right now
- Oris — Local-first meeting notes for Mac.
- Agent Inbox — A local command center for coding agents.
- AskDocs — Embeddable search and RAG for product sites.
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AI Agent Handoff: A State Machine, Not a Message Thread
Building Agent Inbox showed me that an AI agent handoff is a state machine: explicit state ownership, version tokens, and acknowledgement semantics.
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