Practical posts on AI coding agents, MCP, Laravel, Node.js and engineering.https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/enhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/a-benchmark-gate-that-catches-small-regressions/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/a-benchmark-gate-that-catches-small-regressions/How a seeded 50,000-row corpus, a recall baseline and a p95 latency baseline turned a search benchmark into a pass or fail check that runs on every pull request.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbenchmarkstestingsqliteMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/aletheia-mem-benefits-and-limits/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/aletheia-mem-benefits-and-limits/The benefits of Aletheia with their numbers and sources: one local store for many tools, rules written once, private by default, measured retrieval, and the limits.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTaletheiaai-agentsmcpbenchmarksMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/aletheia-vs-claude-mem-numbers/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/aletheia-vs-claude-mem-numbers/A retrieval benchmark of Aletheia against claude-mem 15.2.0 on LoCoMo, with the commands to repeat it, the limits of the comparison and where claude-mem is far ahead.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbenchmarksai-agentsclaude-codeMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/cross-platform-ci-for-a-bun-project/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/cross-platform-ci-for-a-bun-project/What broke when I added a Windows runner to a Bun and SQLite project: temp-folder cleanup, path separators, shell assumptions and test timeouts, and how each was fixed.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcibuntestingMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/hooks-that-never-block-your-agent/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/hooks-that-never-block-your-agent/A failing hook must not stop your AI coding tool. How Aletheia hooks print nothing and exit 0 on error, spool to disk when the database is busy, and what the tests showed.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThooksreliabilityai-agentsMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/system-design-claude-code-quality-gate/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/system-design-claude-code-quality-gate/How Claude Kit is built: one script behind the pre-commit and Stop hooks, the same tools in CI, a referenced runtime, and files you own that are not replaced unasked.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsystem-designclaude-codelaravelquality-gateMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/system-design-local-first-agent-memory/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/system-design-local-first-agent-memory/How Aletheia is built: hooks designed to fail open, redaction before storage, one SQLite file, a leased job queue and a bounded session-start block. Choices and trade-offs.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsystem-designai-agentsmcpsqliteMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/system-design-loupe-re-anchoring/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/system-design-loupe-re-anchoring/How Loupe is built: a comment's journey from a click to an agent, the anchor fingerprint and its scoring, and the lifecycle rule that only a person resolves.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsystem-designloupemcpfrontendMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/use-aletheia-mem-memory-and-rules/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/use-aletheia-mem-memory-and-rules/Install aletheia-mem, save and search memories, add a rule, see what a new session receives and preview the Claude Code installer. Run in a throwaway folder.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTaletheiaai-agentsmcptutorialMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/use-loupe-with-claude-code/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/use-loupe-with-claude-code/Run Loupe locally, pin a comment on a live page, triage it on a board and let Claude Code read and answer it over MCP. Steps, screenshots and what I checked.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTloupemcpclaude-codetutorialMohamed Ashraf Elsaedhttps://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/why-ai-coding-agents-forget/https://mohamedashrafelsaed.com/blog/why-ai-coding-agents-forget/AI coding agents start every session blank. Here is how Aletheia captures sessions with hooks, stores them in SQLite and feeds context back, all on your machine.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentsmcpclaude-codeMohamed Ashraf Elsaed