Latest · October 2026
Battle-Tested Rules That My Agents Actually Obey
Where the rules come from (Karpathy and Mnimiy), what each one prevents, and how to turn them into an AGENTS.md your agents actually obey.
alfredo.torre ~ $ whoami
Project manager and software engineer building intelligent systems: AI agents, GraphRAG over ontologies, .NET on Azure. Working with semantics and AI since 2011.
Writing
omp from Hermes: The Open-Source Coding Agent You Can Run for Free
What omp is, why its terminal-based code intelligence rivals an IDE, and how an adapter skill lets Hermes drive it headlessly, free models included.
Piloting Antigravity from Hermes: How to Drive agy Headless and Keep It Honest
How I built agy-antigravity-cli for Hermes, why headless agy exits 0 on silent failures, and how adapter skills fit into my foundry gates.
Beyond Disposable Sessions: Why I Built Hermes Skills Foundry for Self-Evolving Agents
After months with Hermes Agent, I built hermes-skills-foundry: a curated, 4-gate skill collection where every capability is proven to work.
From Symbolic Logic to Statistical Learning: The Fascinating Evolution of AI and Its Unexpected Convergence
A condensed article to enlist the key historic moments that led to the AI Explosion that we see in 2025.
Showcase
- Ontologies & Semantic Web research Knowledge representation · Ontologies · Linked data 3 papers · 2013
Where my work on AI began. At the University of Catania I co-authored three peer-reviewed papers (ICEIS 2013, Springer LNBIP) on using ontologies and Semantic Web technologies to integrate distributed government databases and maps, the symbolic, knowledge-driven side of AI that today's knowledge graphs grew from.
- PureCSV Scala · Library OSS
A type-safe and boilerplate-free CSV library for Scala.
- GIMP-ELA Python · GIMP plugin OSS
A JPEG Error Level Analysis forensic plugin for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
- cats-http4s-crypto Scala · Cats · http4s · Doobie OSS
A sample microservice built with Cats, http4s and Doobie that computes crypto/fiat currency conversion rates.