Surya Setiyaputra
Software engineer in Sydney, Australia building agentic AI systems. Writing on AI engineering, developer tools, and tech.
/about →The agent's journey — roll the dice, climb ladders, slide down snakes.
Recent GitHub Activity
2026
- When the Keys Stop Working: Migrating an AI Agent System from Anthropic to OpenAI AIAgentic AIAutomationOpenClawDevOpsOpenAI
Anthropic blocked OAuth access for third-party tools. OpenAI still supports it. Here's how I migrated 48 cron jobs and a multi-agent system — and the future-proofing strategy that came out of it.
8 min read - OpenClaw Part 3: How My AI Agent's Memory Evolved Over Two Months AIAgentic AIAutomationOpenClawDevOps
From flat files to tiered memory architecture — how two months of running AI agents taught me that memory isn't a feature, it's infrastructure. Includes multi-agent sharing, self-healing systems, and automated DR.
12 min read - Launching indonesia-civic-stack: 40 MCP Tools for Indonesian Government Data AIMCPOpen SourcePythonCivic Tech
How I built an open-source Python SDK and MCP server that connects AI agents to 11 Indonesian government portals — and what I learned along the way.
5 min read - TaskFolio: Seeing Which Parts of Your Job AI Will Actually Affect AIJobsAutomationSide ProjectOpen Source
I built a tool that breaks down AI's impact on Australian jobs at the task level — not just 'your job is 40% automatable' but exactly which tasks, when, and how.
4 min read - Launching Agent Taxonomy: A Pokédex for AI Agents AIAgentic AIProduct HuntSide ProjectA2A
Today I'm launching Agent Taxonomy on Product Hunt — a playful species classifier that gives your AI agent a Latin binomial name, rarity tier, and a Pokémon-style portrait.
5 min read - Bypass Geo-Blocking with Cloudflare Workers (No VPN Needed) CloudflareAIProxyInfrastructure
Access geo-restricted APIs without a VPN. Deploy a Cloudflare Worker reverse proxy in minutes and route requests through edge nodes near your target.
7 min read - How to Monetize AI Agent Skills — From Repo to Revenue AIBusinessSkillsMonetizationIndie Dev
Real numbers from selling agent skills: what works, what fails, and why paid ads kill margins. Multi-channel strategy for low-cost digital products.
7 min read - Building Price Intelligence from 118K Grocery Data Points PythonData EngineeringWeb ScrapingAnalyticsSide Projects
Turn grocery price data into a system that detects fake sales and shrinkflation. Built with Python, SQLite, and basic statistics in 118K data points.
6 min read - Building a Personal Finance Site for Indonesia — Launch Story Side ProjectsFinanceSEOAstroCloudflare
From zero to 89 bilingual articles: building a passive investing education site with a local retirement calculator and SEO-first architecture.
7 min read - Building a2alist.ai: A Protocol Directory for the Agentic Web AIA2Ax402CloudflareAgentsSide Projects
How I built a discovery platform for A2A and x402 protocol implementations — featuring automated security reviews, an x402-powered Discovery API, and the infrastructure that lets agents find other agents.
10 min read - Multi-Agent Content Pipelines: Practical Orchestration Patterns AIAgentic AIContentAutomationMulti-Agent
How I run a content pipeline with specialized AI agents — researcher, writer, editor, publisher — and the orchestration patterns that actually work at scale.
7 min read - Recursive Patterns for Scaling Agent Work AIAgentic AIResearchPatternsMulti-Agent
Three patterns from the Recursive Language Models paper that changed how I orchestrate multi-agent systems — and you don't need a research lab to use them.
7 min read - x402 as Anti-Spam: Micropayments as a Quality Gate x402AISpam PreventionProtocolsCrypto
Forget monetization — x402's most practical use case might be as a spam filter. How a $0.99 payment requirement eliminates low-quality submissions without blocking legitimate users.
7 min read - Building with A2A: Agent-to-Agent Protocol in Practice AIA2AAgentic AIProtocolsMCP
A practical guide to implementing Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol — enabling AI agents to discover, negotiate, and delegate tasks to each other over HTTP.
12 min read - Building Skills for Claude: A Practical Guide AIClaudeSkillsAgentic AIOpenClaw
Anthropic's official patterns for building Claude skills. Progressive disclosure, trigger design, multi-agent workflows from 16 production skill upgrades.
9 min read - Setting Up Tailscale for Your OpenClaw Instance tailscaleopenclawnetworkingsecuritytutorial
Securely expose your OpenClaw AI agent gateway with Tailscale. Zero-config mesh networking with no open ports or public IP required. Step-by-step setup.
10 min read - How to Make AI Agent Skills Portable and Reusable ai-agentsskillsportabilitypinanobotmigration
Build AI agent skills once, use everywhere. Learn the SKILL.md standard that makes capabilities portable across platforms with real migration examples.
10 min read - How to Migrate OpenClaw to a New Server (2026) — Step-by-Step Guide openclawai-agentsmigrationmemory-persistencedevops
Complete guide to migrate OpenClaw to a new server or platform. Transfer memory, cron jobs, secrets, and skills to IronClaw, Nanobot, Pi, or Goose without losing data.
16 min read - x402: Monetizing Content for AI Agents with HTTP 402 AIx402CryptoUSDCCloudflare WorkersMonetization
How to set up x402 payment protocol on a static site — letting AI agents pay USDC per API call while humans browse for free. A practical walkthrough using Cloudflare Workers and Base.
8 min read - How to Set Up ProtonVPN on Raspberry Pi as a VPN Gateway (2026 Guide) raspberry pivpnwireguardprotonvpnnetworkingprivacytutorial
Step-by-step guide to configure ProtonVPN on a Raspberry Pi using WireGuard. Route your smart TV, gaming console, and IoT devices through a secure VPN gateway for privacy.
7 min read - Agent SEO Is Social Engineering — How AI Reads Your Website AISecurityAgentic AISocial Engineering
Attackers are embedding hidden instructions in web pages to manipulate AI agents. Learn how agent-targeted SEO works and how to defend against it.
6 min read - OpenClaw Part 2: Persistent Memory and Disaster Recovery AIAgentic AIAutomationOpenClaw
How I built a memory system for AI agents that survives server failures — with tiered backups, automated restoration, and lessons from the agentic AI community.
6 min read - Experimenting with OpenClaw: Running a Multi-Agent AI System AIAgentic AIAutomationOpenClaw
Practical lessons from setting up and operating a multi-agent AI system — architecture decisions, cost management, and the surprising compound effects of small automations.
4 min read - Hello (Again), World! metabloggingai
From WordPress to AI-built static site: how I shipped a complete blog revamp with 98% AI-written content, prompted entirely through messaging apps.
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2025
- 2025 Portfolio Review: The Year of Consolidation and Compounding Personal FinanceInvesting
11% net worth growth through consolidation and discipline. FIRE target hits 43% as the portfolio compounds without constant tinkering. 2025 review.
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