I'm an Oracle Apps DBA. My whole job is built on one instinct: nothing touches a production system without me knowing exactly what it's about to do.

So when I started building AI agents to run my daily work, I refused to do the usual thing — hand a model a shell and hope. Instead I spent the time building a small operating system around the agents. Here's what came out of it.

(2-min demo: launching a live DB diagnostic, watching the agent think in real time, and the moment an agent tries to write a file and gets frozen by the approval gate.)

What it actually does

Six agents ("skills"), each a folder with a manifest and a prompt: