Philip Bankier
Co-founder of Kairox AI.
Building ActRun and writing The Living Edge.

Selected work
Writing
Research library
Research notes from April and May 2026.
- May 2026
Mobile Devices as Agent Nodes
A field guide to Android and iOS automation tools and their documented setup requirements.
- April 25, 2026
The April 2026 AI Agent Roundup
Selected agent-tool and model announcements from April 2026, with links to the original announcements.
- April 24, 2026
The 2026 AI Agent Playbook
A field brief comparing agent architectures and deployment tradeoffs, with sections on context and memory.
- April 2026
The Landscape of Taste Transfer
Selected approaches to personalizing AI writing, with evaluation questions and primary sources.
Code
All repositoriesawesome-agent-skills
A directory of skills and tools for AI coding agents.
tastekit
Interviews you about how you want AI agents to work, then writes reusable instruction files.
codex-handoff-skill
A skill for handing coding plans to Codex CLI.
brain-dump
Backup tooling for AI agent memory, built around restic.
agent-cli-skills
A skill library for AI command-line agents.
lex-the-computer
A self-hosted workspace for AI chat and scheduled tasks.
technical-visualizer
Turns code and technical documents into HTML visual drafts, with optional AI image generation.
riskradar
Portfolio risk analysis and visualization.
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