The Map of AI
Published August 21, 2026; revised
Most maps begin with the model. This one follows a common cloud AI request from the grid to the application on screen.
Writing · Updated
Writing
Long-form pieces by me, Abdul Moiz Shahzad, about the systems I build and the ones underneath them. They come out of the work, when there is something worth showing: a map of one AI request, and two pieces from maintaining tools for people who run agents.
Pieces
What an agent-skill installer has to get right
Published
Nine months of maintaining Ai-Agent-Skills, reduced to the decisions that mattered: where files go, what a copy owes its upstream, and why a manifest beats a folder.
Agent skills and MCP servers: what each one is for
Published
One gives an agent a new capability; the other tells it how to use the capabilities it has. Confusing the two produces tools nobody calls and instructions nobody can execute.