Rahat Kabir
I build AI agents and developer tools — and write about what breaks when you ship them.
Always shipping — agents, CLIs, infra experiments.
More about meTechnical writing
Essays on AI engineering, system design, and lessons from production.
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I built an AI audio briefing app and moved it to aws
Jul 2, 20267 min readHow I moved briefcast from a local AI briefing app into a production-style AWS setup with queues, workers, storage, observability, and cost trade-offs.
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I built my own AI coding agent. Then I actually used it.
Jun 10, 20269 min readA week of dogfooding astra-claw, my CLI coding agent: emergent OCR pipelines, silent package installs, memory that forgets its own lessons, and approval fatigue.
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Building Briefly AI: a Python CLI that turns URLs, PDFs, and YouTube videos into concise AI briefs
May 4, 20265 min readHow I built Briefly AI, a terminal-first Python CLI that extracts clean text from URLs, PDFs, and YouTube videos and turns it into concise, prompt-shaped briefs.
Recent Work
Projects
A snapshot of what I have been building recently—crafted with the same care and clarity as the rest of this site.
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MaintainedBriefly AI
Python CLI for creating concise AI briefs from text, local files, URLs, YouTube videos, and PDFs.
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MaintainedAstra-Claw
A terminal AI coding agent in Python — tool loop, persistent memory, markdown skills, and an approve-before-edit gate.
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BuildingSafeTest Forge
AI-powered test generation and debugging tool built with Claude Agent SDK that generates, runs, repairs, and rewinds Python pytest tests locally.
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My Products
Products
Tools and products I've built and shipped.
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Live Promptvault
Personal prompt library — save, organize, and run your best AI prompts in one place.
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Soon Data Analyst
Conversational data analyst for CSV/Excel files with descriptive analysis, interactive charts, dashboards, and reports.
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Soon DELEGATE
AI-powered travel agent for flights, hotels, events, and real-time news search with voice and text chat.
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My Notes
Lab Notes
Things I'm learning and exploring.
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Building AstraClaw - my own agentic system
Studied OpenClaw and Hermes Agent. Started building my own agent called AstraClaw that can use the shell, read files, and learn over time.
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March explorations: certifications, claude code SDK, and ai agent security
A summary of what I have been exploring in March 2026. AWS SAA prep, NVIDIA AI agent cert, Claude Code SDK practice, and diving deep into AI agent security.
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Building a Conversational Data Analyst with Deep Agents
Built an AI-powered data analyst agent. Upload CSV/Excel files, get instant analytics, interactive Plotly charts, dashboards, and reports through chat.