https://dataparade.io/Articles from DataParade on preventing privacy and security problems through solid architecture and a real understanding of the system.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://dataparade.io/articles/fifty-three-agents-before-lunch/https://dataparade.io/articles/fifty-three-agents-before-lunch/Every coding agent on your laptop keeps a record of what you asked it and what it did. BotSpy reads those records from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity and Grok into one schema. The first thing it showed me was what one Saturday morning of my own work actually looked like: 19 agents working…Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ryan Porterhttps://dataparade.io/articles/aws-is-right-you-dont-need-to-create-that-iam-key/https://dataparade.io/articles/aws-is-right-you-dont-need-to-create-that-iam-key/AWS has told us for years not to create long-lived access keys, and most of us kept creating them anyway. In 2026 that habit stopped being affordable. Here is the principle, and one worked example: a CLI for your own cloud app that signs in without a key.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ryan Porterhttps://dataparade.io/articles/a-name-isnt-an-identity/https://dataparade.io/articles/a-name-isnt-an-identity/A code scanner finds a hundred places where something called email appears. How many data items is that? Joining on the name alone dropped our grouping precision from 86% to 51%. The fix was to stop trusting names and join only on evidence the parser can show you.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ryan PorterScannerCode AnalysisPrecisionParserhttps://dataparade.io/articles/a-decision-model-that-walks-the-parse-tree/https://dataparade.io/articles/a-decision-model-that-walks-the-parse-tree/Sorting data item mentions into data items is an agent task: look at a candidate group, read around it, decide. A frontier coding model does it well and costs too much to run on every scan. We built the same loop around Jev, gave it parse-tree tools instead of a file viewer, and it landed above the…Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ryan PorterJevDecision ModelsParse TreeCost Optimizationhttps://dataparade.io/articles/your-coding-agent-already-knows-where-the-password-went/https://dataparade.io/articles/your-coding-agent-already-knows-where-the-password-went/Every decision about how a system handles personal data now gets made in a conversation with a coding agent, and the transcript is sitting on disk. We wrote a tool that reads those transcripts. The next step is an interviewer that forms a hypothesis from them and asks you to confirm it, instead of…Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ryan PorterBotSpyCoding AgentsSession TracesShift Lefthttps://dataparade.io/articles/we-labeled-six-repos-with-a-thousand-sub-agents/https://dataparade.io/articles/we-labeled-six-repos-with-a-thousand-sub-agents/You cannot improve a scanner you cannot score, and nobody had labeled where the personal data lives in a real codebase. So we had three sizes of model label it, argue about it, and let the biggest one arbitrate. The labels are not perfect. They are a compass needle, and the first thing they found w…Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ryan PorterEvaluationSub-AgentsGround TruthLLM Evalshttps://dataparade.io/articles/the-diagram-is-a-projection/https://dataparade.io/articles/the-diagram-is-a-projection/A dataflow diagram is not the output of a scan. It is a query over a knowledge base, and the gaps in that knowledge base tell you exactly which questions to ask a person. We built an interviewer on that idea. It drew its first system-context diagram after one question. It also makes dumb decisions,…Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ryan PorterOCSFKnowledge BaseC4 ModelInterview Engine