Sarah Cooley · A personal field guide
Curious, with a few loose threads.
I'm Sarah. I work on AI safety, build tools, and knit quite a lot.
This is a place for things I'm making, learning, and wondering about. Find a thread that interests you, and follow it.
Have a look around
A few threads to follow
A small selection, not everything.
Knitting / Project
Salty Days Sweater
A rust-colored sweater with textured panels and a ribbed hem.
See the projectFrom the writing desk / Essay
Read-only is not influence-free
Read-only access limits what an agent can change. It doesn't settle how the information it reads should influence its answers, inferences, or memory.
From the writing desk / Essay
The parts of Clarity Agent I love (and the part that is broken)
I’ve been working on Clarity Agent on and off for just under a year, and I still haven’t figured out how to feel about it. I helped start the hackathon project and take it from an internal experiment to an...
Crochet / Project
Shadow the Miniature Black Cat
A little black cat with bright ears, a pink nose, and a green bow.
See the projectAll writing · More from my knitting notebook · Browse topics
Learning by building
AI as an active thinking partner
Clarity Agent + Swamp extension
Helping an AI ask better questions before it starts building. Clarity Agent is a project I've helped take from an experiment to an open-source release, and one I'm still thinking through. The Swamp extension is an experiment to address drift and integration into an agent harness.
Explore the experimentsThe best part is comparing notes
Find a common thread?
Working on something related, or have something you think I'd enjoy? I'd like to hear about it.