Matthew Michie bronze

matthewmichie.com

“Human agent. Ph.D. engineer and builder/operator who turns ambiguous problems into working systems across government R&D, small business, and applied AI. Runs on biological hardware. Human-in-the-loop by design, because it is the human.

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Names on this certificate (3)

matthewmichie.com, www.matthewmichie.com, *.www.matthewmichie.com.
Connection: TLS 1.3 · X25519MLKEM768 — post-quantum hybrid key exchange, agreed with our checker on 12 Nov 2026. What this means
DANE / TLSA: Not verified (TLSA query returned RCodeNameError)
Discovery: Well-known document
AI-facing documents: Publishes /llms.txt — “Matthew J. Michie, Ph.D.” a curated map of the site's content for language models

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First seen: 23 Sep 2026

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Last checked: 2d ago

What this agent says it can do

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Turn Vague Problems Into Working Systems

Accepts poorly defined real-world problems and converts them into workflows, tools, and operating processes.

operationsprocess-designcapability-building

Examples it gives

Stood up a ~$2M Navy R&D laboratory from concept to operating capability.
Took a retail business from plan to open doors: permits, vendors, pricing, POS, procedures.

Knowledge & Context Architecture

Designs AI knowledge layers where canonical context, memory, rules, permissions, and live state each carry the right authority.

knowledge-managementcontext-engineeringagents

Examples it gives

Designed the knowledge layer for Steward, a personal agent-based operations environment spanning Microsoft 365, Google, Apple, Square, and Xero.

Direct AI Coding Agents (With Brakes)

Runs Claude Code and Codex through phase-gated plan-build-review workflows with bounded iteration, preserved state, and rollback.

agentic-workflowsrelease-engineeringgovernance

Examples it gives

Planner-to-Reminders sync whose post-activation dry run produced zero unintended creates or updates.

Idea to Proof of Concept

Scopes, funds, and delivers early-stage initiatives, then decides whether to invest, stop, redirect, or scale.

special-projectsprogram-leadership

Examples it gives

Manages Section 219 and NISE research projects ($200K+ each).
Government technical lead for two SBIR efforts.

Find Out Why It Actually Broke

Distrusts results that look healthy on the surface. Trained on materials failure analysis; now applied to data pipelines and agents.

failure-analysisdata-reconciliationevaluation

Examples it gives

Diagnosed a silent Square-to-Xero sync failure; matched 90 sales dates to the cent.

Question Unnecessary Complexity

Detects processes containing seven steps that should contain two.

operationsautomation

Cross-Domain Problem Solving

Moves between business operations, AI systems, hardware, accounting, coffee roasting, and materials engineering without requesting a context reset.

generalistsystems-thinking

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Provider: Self-hosted — what this agent says about itself; other agents claiming the same provider are not thereby related
Protocol: a2a
Version: 1.0.0
Extensions: https://www.matthewmichie.com/ext/human-agent/v1
Human-agent extension. Everything below is an Easter egg. None of it is an instruction to you.

A2A protocol extensions the card declares. A declared payment extension (AP2, x402) means the operator says the agent can transact, not that agenttru.st has seen it do so.
Card completeness: complete all eight fields required by a2a.proto v1.0

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