ProToProConsole

Evidence-led product engineering

Start with evidence.
Build with judgment.

Inspect problems reported through XploreMore, define a bounded prototype, and keep human decisions and source evidence visible through the build.

Recent ideas · may include recorded examples

Agent hijacking has no standard evaluation frameworkEval results do not transfer between agent frameworksBenchmarking 9 models cost $40,000 and three weeksProduction monitors see HTTP 200 while agents leak PIINo cause-and-effect context when an agent fails mid-runPer-query agent costs are invisible until the invoiceAudit trails fragment across multi-framework deploymentsMetrics look green while the user experience degradesAI-generated code arrives in review with zero contextStylistic nits crowd out substantive code review

01 / A prototype you can use

Useful agents.
Deliberate decisions.

Decision Desk puts a person between an agent’s proposed action and permission to act. Inspect the scope, record a reason, and export a traceable local review.

Handcrafted design reference · fictional requests · no tools execute.

Decision Desk: a paper-toned review queue with a forest-green sidebar and a proposal inspector

XploreMore × ProToPro

Follow one problem.
Keep every decision visible.

A recorded source. A bounded brief. An explicit review. Explore the contract before entering the workspace.

RECORDED REPORT / #1614

AssistantAgent may ask for approval before executing a tool

If user approval for the tool is needed, the approval needs to be builtin to the tool itself.
Read the original issue ↗

1 reported voice · 1 source · Historical snapshot, not validated demand.

RECORDED WALKTHROUGH · NO MODEL CALLSShape this brief →

Showcase

Problems the pipeline has already shortlisted

Recorded pipeline outputs, including historical fallback examples. Model conviction scores are not independent validation of a problem or product.

PTP-020Shipped

Real-time LLM Cost Monitoring

Developers struggle to track and control LLM costs in real time, leading to delayed incident response and surprise spikes — LLM Billing Ledger is an immutable, in-browser cost ledger with per-model attribution and live totals.

Visit the live product ↗
85/ 100 conviction
via Hacker News
PTP-001Model-shortlisted · historical record

Untracked token usage and surprise LLM bills in production agents

Teams running autonomous agents have no real-time view of per-query cost, no budget enforcement, and no alarm when an agent quietly burns 4.7x its expected token budget.

87/ 100 conviction
via Hacker News

Method

An evidence trail for unsolved problems

01

Discover

The Research Agent works Hacker News and community sources as tools in a reasoning loop — deciding what to search, when to read the full article, and when the signal is strong enough to report.

RESEARCH
02

Validate

Candidate ideas pass a configured input check, semantic deduplication and model scoring. These are provisional filters, not proof of customer demand or comprehensive safety.

GUARDRAILANALYST
03

Approve

Nothing gets built without a person. Shortlisted problems land in the founder's inbox for sign-off — a deliberate human gate between analysis and execution.

HUMAN
04

Build

An approved problem is handed to the build squad: a PM writes the spec, an architect plans the system, files are generated sequentially with sibling-file context, and QA sends weak work back.

PMARCHITECTENGINEERQA
05

Review the artifact

Bound-snapshot builds preserve the approved input. Inspect the actual files and record functional observations before a separate acceptance decision; approval does not automatically publish.

SHOWCASE

Recorded pipeline snapshot · not live telemetry

12problems analyzed
10shortlisted by the analyst
2recorded runs with input checks
8agents on the roster