Notes from the eucalyptus
Why your assistant deserves a home, written while building it. From Kent C. Dodds.
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Series
20 parts
Agent credentials for team leads
Giving a team’s AI agents real access without handing them the keys: storage, scopes, revocation, audit, sharing, and rollout.
3 parts
Sharing apps with your team
Sharing an AI-built app with teammates, contractors, and clients: forks, grants, sign-in, access presets, who an app runs as, and who pays.
Latest
Essays · November 7, 2026 · 7 min read
Every personal agent needs a cloud
Personal agents build software to solve their users’ problems, and that software needs storage and an execution context
Essays · November 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Three ways to share an AI-built app, and whose keys each one uses
Fork it, grant it, or let people sign in. How to share an AI-built app by deciding whose credentials it runs on and who pays for the work.
How-to · November 7, 2026 · 5 min read
How to set up a team org for your AI-built apps
Your personal Kody org stays yours. Create a separate team org, decide what moves into it, set member permissions, and invite people with links.
How-to · November 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Read, Use, Contribute, or Manage? Picking the right access for each teammate
What each Kody access preset lets a teammate run, read, change, and publish, what no preset grants, and how to check the access you gave.
Essays · November 7, 2026 · 5 min read
This is better than a skill, how ship-pr ships a pull request the same way every time
A long PR-shipping skill became one Kody package export. What maintained code handles that instructions alone cannot, with a real read-only run.
How-to · November 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Whose credentials does this app use? How to audit an app before you share it
Before you share an AI-built app, check five things. Which org owns it, who it runs as, which credentials fill it, who can open it, and who pays.
How-to · November 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Your first useful Kody workflow, an air quality and daylight check
Find a public Kody package, read it before you run it, and get a real air quality and daylight report for your city. No keys, no migration.
How-to · November 7, 2026 · 8 min read
How to give staff and their bots access to your Kody org
You built the packages. Now staff who will never build anything need to ask a bot for answers. How Kody accounts, orgs, seats and bot connections fit.
How-to · November 3, 2026 · 5 min read
How to roll out AI agents to your team when it isn't AI-forward yet
Not everyone on your team wants an AI agent. A practical rollout plan that starts small, keeps keys safe, and lets skeptics adopt at their own pace.
Essays · October 31, 2026 · 5 min read
Why "just use AWS Lambda" breaks down for teams using AI agents
Lambda can run the code your agents write. The trouble is everything around it, like IAM, secrets, deploys, and review. Here's where it breaks for teams.
Product updates
November 6, 2026 · 8 min read
Kody weekly: Local secret reads, an Apps page, and profiles
Local secret reads, an Apps page, usage warnings, and 6 more features, plus fixes and 2 dated credential changes.
October 30, 2026 · 11 min read
Kody weekly: Apps run as their publisher, and more for teams
Apps run as their publisher, public team org pages, org-wide grants, and 11 more features, plus 5 breaking changes.
October 23, 2026 · 7 min read
Kody weekly: Team orgs, CLI sign-in, and shorter app URLs
Team orgs, CLI OAuth sign-in, shorter package app URLs, and 7 more features, plus smaller updates and fixes.