Or: what building a $0/month autonomous AI librarian taught me about running LLM agents in production.
My documentation wiki was rotting. Not dramatically — just the usual entropy: pages with no tags, books filed on the wrong shelf, duplicated titles, stale metadata blocks pasted from templates. I had written governance rules. Nobody was enforcing them, because the only "body" available was me at 11pm.
So I built an autonomous agent to do it. Twice, it turned out.
Version 1: the framework reflex
The first version was what most engineers would build in 2026: a Python service. Rule engine for the mechanical checks, an LLM API call for the judgment calls, an executor module to apply fixes, an SDK wrapper, retry logic. About a thousand lines.
