ContractorKeith 
construction veteran. agentic engineer. building in public.
RSS Feedi'm keith. i spent 37 years in the trades — electrician, plumber, GC, home builder, estimator, and everything in between. now i'm working full time in agentic engineering, building open-source tools like Ködade. this site is where i document what i build, what breaks, and what i learn fixing it.
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i became SlowBooks Pro's Mac maintainer
how Trent rebuilt the bookkeeping program he lost, what SlowBooks Pro does now, and how i gave it a signed and notarized Apple Silicon release.
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the open-source stack i'd consider for home services
the business software i'd evaluate for a home services shop, what each program does, where open source helps, and where i'd still pay.
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ködade is open source now
ködade's first public macos release is out under apache 2.0, with the supported workspace today and the bigger roadmap still under construction.
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an mcp server that reads plans like an estimator
conmcp gives any agent the tools to read a plan set like an estimator: find the sheets, see the drawings, pull the quantities, flag the RFIs.
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i needed a better window into my ai agents
a local terminal dashboard for tracing, replaying, comparing, and exporting ai agent sessions.
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a safer mcp toolbox for my mac
a local mcp server that lets an ai agent use selected mac tools without handing it an unrestricted shell.
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i built a subcontractor game for bid day
a free terminal game about pricing risk, winning the right work, and having enough cash left to make payroll.
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the takeoff suite, two weeks in
since the last post: a bid command center went pilot-ready, plan markup grew into three apps, and the free engine got a real installer.
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from bid invite to a package you can check
contractor-bid 0.2.0 lets you talk to an agent and get a source-backed bid package instead of a chat window full of guesses.
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testing ForgeCAD to draw my construction submittals
i pointed forgecad and codex at a real panic gate submittal and watched them redraw it, callouts and all, in an afternoon.
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local-job-scraper
built a python tool that scrapes company websites directly for job openings — not indeed, not ziprecruiter.
recent posts
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everything i'm building into ködade
Updated:the original ködade development roadmap, with an august update pointing to the open-source public release and its supported feature boundary.
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the toolbelt under the AI tools
i packaged 58 modern cli tools into one homebrew install, because your terminal should be dialed in before the AI shows up.
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teaching claude to stop writing like claude
how i built a claude code skill that catches 44 AI writing tells before they ever hit this blog.
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building my own bluebeam
bluebeam wanted windows, parallels, and $600 a year. i built the 10% i actually use in two days.
