Kenny Ponders肯玩 AI
Kenny Ponders · Shenzhen

I make tools for the parts of thinking that usually disappear.

AI engineer working across local-first memory, agent workflows, and visual forms for thought.

NowShipping Clipplane and studying what deserves to persist.
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Three recurring practices

Not a pipeline. Three ways of noticing where human and machine work breaks down.

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Current field work

Three projects, three different kinds of evidence.

A · Local-first product

Clipplane

Keep web clips on your machine first.

Clipplane saves pages and selections to a local org-mode inbox, keeps an inspectable capture trail, and only sends content outward when you explicitly choose a sync target.

Boundary
Local save always completes first
Artifact
Human-readable inbox + machine-readable trail
Status
Dev preview · v0.5
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Clipplane capture history showing local and synced clipsClipplane browser extension popup
Capture history stays visible and local.
Tracework decision replay ledger showing a decision, rejected alternative, supporting evidence, and report outputs
$ /tracework:query why did we choose local-first storage?

decision: keep the raw evidence inspectable
rejected: cloud-only session history
evidence: capture boundary + privacy promise
B · Decision replay

Tracework

Git remembers the change. Tracework remembers why.

Session signals become cited decisions, daily reports, weekly synthesis, monthly review, and a narrative roadmap that can be questioned later.

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C · Visual systems

card-skill

Content in, checked visual artifacts out.

The layout changes with the argument. Posters, infographics, editorial covers, and reading cards are different forms, not color variants of one template.

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Field notes

Source-level writing on context, memory, and agent design.

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I work between research and product engineering: language systems, multimodal workflows, local-first tools, and the small interfaces that make agent work more humane.

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