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24 articles

Research, case studies, and engineering deep-dives from the HeyNEO team.

Agent Constitution: A Policy Layer That Actually Stops Agents from Doing Dumb Things
Interpretability & Security

Agent Constitution: A Policy Layer That Actually Stops Agents from Doing Dumb Things

NEO built a YAML-driven policy enforcement framework for AI agents with AST-restricted conditions, staged PII detection, JSONL audits, and a FastAPI + React dashboard so rule violations are visible and enforceable.

May 14, 2026·10 min
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ContextTimeMachine: Replay an Agent's Context Window at Any Turn You Choose
AI Agents & Automation

ContextTimeMachine: Replay an Agent's Context Window at Any Turn You Choose

NEO built a post-hoc context debugger that reconstructs the exact context window at any turn, tracks when facts drop out, and finds divergence points across two agent runs.

May 14, 2026·10 min
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LiveContext: A Real-Time Stream View of What's Actually in Your Agent's Context Window
AI Agents & Automation

LiveContext: A Real-Time Stream View of What's Actually in Your Agent's Context Window

NEO built a transparent OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama proxy that streams context composition, token usage, evictions, and attention density to a live dashboard.

May 14, 2026·10 min
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agentsync: Git-Backed Sync for AI Team Configs with a 52-Point Compliance Audit
AI Agents & Automation

agentsync: Git-Backed Sync for AI Team Configs with a 52-Point Compliance Audit

NEO built a git-backed CLI for AI team configuration sync with tree-level three-way merge, conflict-safe pull and push flows, and a 52-point security and compliance audit.

May 14, 2026·10 min
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ASR Evaluation Framework: Benchmarking Five Speech Models on Accuracy, Speed, and Robustness
LLM Evaluation & Benchmarking

ASR Evaluation Framework: Benchmarking Five Speech Models on Accuracy, Speed, and Robustness

NEO built an ASR benchmarking harness that compares five speech models across 15+ scenarios with WER, CER, RTF, and inference-time outputs in a stable JSON schema.

May 14, 2026·10 min
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How Neo Evaluated and Optimized a RAG Chatbot
LLM Evaluation & Benchmarking

How Neo Evaluated and Optimized a RAG Chatbot

A full case study on replacing gut-feel RAG tuning with LLM-as-judge evaluation, retrieval fixes, and model sweep benchmarking that delivered +19% quality and -79% session cost.

May 8, 2026·14 min
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Which Local LLM Should You Actually Use for Coding and Agentic Workflows?
LLM Evaluation & Benchmarking

Which Local LLM Should You Actually Use for Coding and Agentic Workflows?

A complete evaluation of qwen3.6:27b, qwen3.6:35b-a3b, qwen3-coder:30b, and deepseek-coder:33b across code generation, function calling, and agent capabilities — run entirely on local hardware.

May 7, 2026·10 min
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Agent Factory GUI: Visual No-Code Builder for AI Agent Workflows
AI Agents & Automation

Agent Factory GUI: Visual No-Code Builder for AI Agent Workflows

NEO built Agent Factory GUI, a drag-and-drop visual environment for composing, testing, and exporting production AI agent pipelines without writing boilerplate.

March 23, 2026·8 min
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Arxiv Paper to Podcast: ML Research You Can Listen To
Applied AI / Domain-Specific Pipelines

Arxiv Paper to Podcast: ML Research You Can Listen To

NEO built a pipeline that converts arxiv research papers into podcast-style audio episodes with two AI hosts, TTS voice synthesis, background music, and MP3 output.

March 23, 2026·8 min
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AutoDoc: An Autonomous Agent That Reads Your Codebase and Writes the Docs
AI Agents & Automation

AutoDoc: An Autonomous Agent That Reads Your Codebase and Writes the Docs

NEO built AutoDoc, an autonomous agent that traverses your codebase, understands structure and intent, and generates accurate, up-to-date documentation without manual effort.

March 23, 2026·8 min
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Building a Multimodal RAG System That Retrieves Text, Images, and Tables Together
Applied AI / Domain-Specific Pipelines

Building a Multimodal RAG System That Retrieves Text, Images, and Tables Together

NEO built a multimodal RAG with CLIP embeddings and ChromaDB: 0.030s retrieval, 60%+ cross-modal accuracy, ingestion for PDFs, images (OCR), and tables (schema extraction).

March 17, 2026·8 min
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Carbon-Aware Model Training: Cutting CO2 by 43% Without Sacrificing Accuracy
Model Optimization & Inference

Carbon-Aware Model Training: Cutting CO2 by 43% Without Sacrificing Accuracy

NEO built a PyTorch pipeline that schedules training around grid carbon intensity and tracks emissions with CodeCarbon—43.2% CO2 reduction on MNIST with accuracy within 0.3% of baseline.

March 16, 2026·8 min
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