Writing
On AI-native development, context files, markdown craft, and the small decisions that make AI agents dramatically more useful.
- Task modeTASK.mdAI agents
Stop pasting raw tickets into your AI agent
The first message decides the whole conversation. Task mode turns a messy Jira ticket or Slack thread into a structured TASK.md your agent can actually fly with.
·6 min read - tokensoptimizercontext engineering
Tokens ≠ words: what your context files actually cost
LLMs don't read words — they read tokens, and the exchange rate is weirder than you think. Real numbers from cl100k, and how MDPilot's 5-pass optimizer exploits them.
·7 min read - Convert modeMarkItDownmarkdown
Markdown is the language AI actually reads
PDFs, DOCX, slide decks — your knowledge lives in formats built for printing, not for context windows. Why markdown wins, with real token numbers, and how Convert mode uses Microsoft's MarkItDown.
·5 min read - Labsexperimentsroadmap
Inside the Hangar: what MDPilot Labs is testing
Labs is where features earn their place on the flight deck. A tour of the current experiments — Image → Prompt, Interview Primer, Explain — and how the learning loop decides what graduates.
·5 min read
