Test machine publishers through their real tools
Prove a machine publisher has the permissions it needs, and no broader authority, by exercising the registered tools it will actually call.
Five contracts a PHP listing layer should prove
Test filter semantics, cache invalidation, and installed package behavior before trusting a PHP listing layer.
A PSR-14 dispatcher does not promise Symfony's second argument
Keep event dispatch calls within the interface you inject, using a small Waaseyaa fix as a practical example.
Fixing a hardcoded revision key in Waaseyaa's entity storage
How Waaseyaa’s EntityRepository let entity types configure their revision-pointer column, but ten call sites still read the literal revision_id string, and how a single private accessor plus a two-way test closed the gap.
Adding a working skip link to Waaseyaa's operator shell
How Waaseyaa’s shared operator shell added a real skip link and hid decorative icons from assistive technology, including the focus trick that makes the link’s own jump work in every browser.
Configuring identity-only OAuth requests in Waaseyaa
How Waaseyaa’s oauth-provider package added optional, additive configuration so a consumer that only needs a stable Google or GitHub identity can skip the email lookup, the forced consent prompt, and the offline refresh-token grant.
Claude Code and Codex skills are directories, not files
Why Claude Code and Codex discover agent skills as a directory containing SKILL.md, not a flat markdown file, and what silently breaks when an installer gets that wrong.
Host-bound session and CSRF cookies in Waaseyaa
How Waaseyaa’s SessionCookiePolicy enforces the __Host- cookie prefix’s four constraints for both the session cookie and the CSRF double-submit cookie, and rejects misconfiguration at boot instead of failing silently in the browser.
Fixing a metadata collision bug in Waaseyaa's file repository
How Waaseyaa’s LocalFileRepository silently collided metadata for different stream-wrapper URIs that shared a trailing path segment, and the fix that preserves full URI identity plus atomic writes and a reconciliation tool.
Building a conformant stdio MCP server in PHP
The wire-level rules that make a stdio MCP server correct in PHP - one writer to stdout, a bounded read with no natural limit, and a handshake that tells old clients from new ones.