This #ForkloreFriday, we bring you Rishikesh Ajit and Standard Agent
Standard Agent: because “black box” was never the FOSS way. An open-source framework for building and experimenting with AI agents.
Q: One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self
Less is more. Keep the core tiny, make seams obvious, add observability early, and let patterns emerge—don’t enforce them.
If you can keep asking the question “What is the justification for your existence” to each line of code, to each function, classes, modules. Strip things away. Make it as simple as you can.
a) Check out the full profile, head to forklore
b) ICYMI: Updates to the Grants Program
c) have a lovely weekend.