Electrical engineer by training, product builder by craft, founder by instinct.
The question I keep coming back to lately: how an agent gets authority to act on someone's behalf, and how that authority stays scoped, logged, and revocable. Most agent demos end with an API key and hope. That's the gap APOA is trying to close, as an open-source layer on top of MCP.
Kyle Kingsbury joked an AI agent might get talked into a $950 grandmother burrito by El Farolito's chatbot. I think he was being optimistic. So I built a working prototype where the boundaries live in a signed token between the LLM and the execution layer, not in the prompt.
I gave an AI agent access to act on my behalf a few months ago. Within ten minutes I was scared of it. Not because it did anything wrong. Because I had no way to guarantee it wouldn't. The entire trust model was a system prompt and vibes. I built APOA as my take on a solution.
Open-source authorization for AI agents, modeled on power of attorney. Scopes, attenuating delegation, and revocation, with MCP and A2A integrations.
An open protocol where the services an agent calls sign tamper-proof receipts you verify with your own key. Find My, but for AI agents.
An SSH signing service that lets an agent sign within limits you set. High-stakes signatures need a human co-sign. Part of the APOA family.
Open-source app for chatting with AI impressions of anyone. Put a few in a room together and watch them riff off each other.
A pre-flight manual for AI-assisted software: a severity model, a 25-point checklist, prompt templates, and seven postmortems.
A take on the Street Fighter game I grew up with, starring tech CEOs instead of Ryu and Ken. Built over a Thanksgiving weekend with Claude Code, Cursor, and Nano Banana Pro.
A protocol for tamper-evident receipts of AI agent actions: the service an agent calls signs proof of what it observed and publishes it to a public transparency log, so the owner can reconstruct the trail without trusting the agent or its operator.
arxiv.org/abs/2606.04193Always looking to meet interesting people!