Russ McKendrick

Is my blog Agent-Ready?

Running russ.cloud through isitagentready.com and wiring up the checks that actually make sense for a static blog — Link headers, Content Signals, agent-skills discovery, llms.txt, and a tiny Cloudflare Worker to serve markdown on demand.

Tools 🧰AI 🤖

Introducing AI Commit

A Rust CLI I built to stop writing terrible commit messages — aic generates AI-powered commit messages, PR drafts, diff reviews, and repo visualisations from your staged changes.

Tools 🧰macOS 🍏

Introducing Hosts Butler

A terminal-based hosts file manager built in Rust that I wrote to stop manually editing /etc/hosts with a text editor and hoping I didn't break anything.

Creating Custom Skills for Copilot Cowork

AI 🤖Tools 🧰

Creating Custom Skills for Copilot Cowork

Copilot Cowork just landed in Microsoft's Frontier preview programme, and one of its most useful features is the ability to extend it with your own custom skills stored in OneDrive. Here's how to create one.

Tools 🧰Security 🔐

Introducing ssl-toolkit

A comprehensive SSL/TLS diagnostic tool built in Rust that I created to replace my ever-growing document of random certificate checking notes.

OpenClaw: Giving Claude a Body (and a Telegram Bot)

AI 🤖Linux 🐧

OpenClaw: Giving Claude a Body (and a Telegram Bot)

A quick guide to installing OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that gives LLMs persistence, tools, and messaging - turning a chatbot into an actual assistant.

Tools 🧰macOS 🍏

Day to Day Tools, the 2025 edition

The 2025 edition of my day-to-day tools: Ghostty, Claude Code, Google's Antigravity IDE, and the AI services that have become central to how I work.

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