Robert Allen

Technologist building AI-powered developer tools and precision agriculture systems. Creator of git-adr, claude-spec, and open source API tooling.

Latest Writing

Introducing sigint: Signal Intelligence for Market Research

Market research usually means hours of web searches, scattered notes, and reports you write from memory days later. sigint turns this into a conversation where you ask questions and get comprehensive reports with sources, GitHub issues, and scenario graphs based...

git-adr: Keeping Architecture Decisions in Git Notes

If you’ve tried maintaining Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) in your repository, you know the friction. Another directory of markdown files to manage, merge conflicts when multiple teams make decisions simultaneously, and a growing pile of docs that drift away from...

Hook-Driven Automated Test Framework for Claude Code

Testing AI coding assistants usually means external scripts and manual validation. What if you could test from inside the conversation itself, using hooks to transform user prompts into automated test actions? Here's how to build a self-driving test framework.

LLM Context Windows: What 200K+ Tokens Actually Means

200K+ token context windows sound impressive, but do they change how you code? Here's what actually works, the hidden costs, and strategies that matter when your AI assistant can see your entire codebase at once.

Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs

Hitting a wall with your AI coding assistant on hard problems? Recent research shows repeating your prompt twice improves results. The fix comes from how attention mechanisms process tokens.

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Open Source

git-adr

Architecture Decision Records stored in git notes with AI-powered drafting.

Python Git Notes CLI

LSP Tools Marketplace

Language Server Protocol tools for Claude Code with 28 language servers and comprehensive hook support.

Claude Code LSP Hooks

NSIP API Client

Python client and MCP server for the National Sheep Improvement Program genetic database.

Python MCP Agriculture

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Robert Allen

Technologist | Regenerative Agriculturist

Passionate about building robust, scalable systems and contributing to open source software. Specializing in backend architecture, API design, and developer tools.

Core Competencies

Python
Go
Architecture
APIs
OpenAPI/Swagger
DevOps
AI Tooling
AI Assisted Development
Open Source