Govind Shukla — Writing https://govindshukla.com/writing/ Essays on AI engineering in banking. en Designing skills for Metaglass AIOS, part 7: declarative behavior between prompts and code https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-skills-for-metaglass-aios/ https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-skills-for-metaglass-aios/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 7 of the series. The layer between prompts and tools that lets users and the agent extend behavior without writing code. Designing memory and state persistence for Metaglass AIOS, part 6: what survives the turn, the session, the restart https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-memory-and-state-persistence-for-metaglass-aios/ https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-memory-and-state-persistence-for-metaglass-aios/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 6 of the series. The mechanisms that let the agent remember beyond the current turn, beyond the current session, and beyond the current process. Designing subagents for Metaglass AIOS, part 5: delegation, isolation, and the summary contract https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-subagents-for-metaglass-aios/ https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-subagents-for-metaglass-aios/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 5 of the series. When one agent spawns another — what gets passed down, what comes back up, and the engineering surface that question opens. Designing prompt composition for Metaglass AIOS, part 4: assembling what the model knows https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-prompt-composition-for-metaglass-aios/ https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-prompt-composition-for-metaglass-aios/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 4 of the series. The layer that decides what the model knows at the moment it's called — identity, rules, capabilities, context, steering. Designing the tool system for Metaglass AIOS, part 3: what the agent is allowed to touch https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-the-tool-system-for-metaglass-aios/ https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-the-tool-system-for-metaglass-aios/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 3 of the series. The tool layer — what the agent can actually do, and how the rest of the kernel interacts with that surface. Designing the agent loop for Metaglass AIOS, part 2: turns, tools, and termination https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-the-agent-loop-for-metaglass-aios/ https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-the-agent-loop-for-metaglass-aios/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 2 of the series. The loop itself — what calls the LLM, runs the tools, decides whether to go again, and decides when to stop. Designing context management for Metaglass AIOS: what I learned from the field https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-context-management-for-metaglass-aios/ https://govindshukla.com/writing/designing-context-management-for-metaglass-aios/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Part 1 of a series on the Metaglass AIOS kernel. A walk through the design space of agent context management — recurring problems, the mechanisms that solve them, and the choices I made.