On Thursday morning I merged a security fix from the agent after 71 CI checks passed (kairos#4569). Before noon, every pull request that ran CI after it was red, and so was the post-merge run on master.
A colleague asked me this week how the part of my agent factory that reads GitHub mentions actually works. He wants something similar for his own repos.
The netboot server for my lab moved from my Mac to a Linux box this week. The agents did the migration, with a few back-and-forths, and the one thing I did myself was point DNS at the new machine. Then I opened the dashboard and everything was already there: my data, my login, the same certificate. Realizing I had not had to interact with either machine directly was a little crazy.
Kairos is at 100% on the OpenSSF Best Practices badge, at the passing level. I checked the project page directly rather than take an internal report's word for it: badge_percentage_0: 100, badge_level: passing. The rest of the week went to supply chain fixes, maintainer lifecycle documentation, and closing out the monorepo consolidation.
Last week ended on 4.2.0 shipped and a reviewer agent reading every change before I do. Both held. riscv64 moved the most this week: it now builds on every push instead of only at release time, and there is a public invitation out asking anyone with real RISC-V hardware to test it.
Last week ended on a version that had shipped but not released, and a review load I was not keeping up with. Both moved. 4.2.0 is out, reset works again on non-UKI installs, fork pull requests finally get CI, and there is now a reviewer agent reading every change before I do. 34 changes landed against Kairos this week, up from 19.
Last week I wrote that I wanted to get the agents working on actual Kairos tickets, and that the next post would either have results or another pile of postmortems. I'm happy to say it has results. It has a few postmortems too, but the results came first this time.
The email landed on Friday, 17 July 2026, three days before I was due to leave for vacation. The sensible thing would have been to file it away and deal with it when I got back. Instead I spent the next two evenings standing up a system so I could start a small agent factory before I disappeared for a couple of weeks.
Last week I realized I had put myself in front of people 30 times since I started promoting Kairos 3 years ago. That's roughly 10 times per year, which I think is a fantastic number for me.
I want to introduce kairos-lab, a small CLI built to remove friction from first-time Kairos experiments on macOS and Linux.