Builder in the loop: Tony Rogers on stress-testing AURA before production

An interview with Tony Rogers on stress-testing AURA, Mezmo’s open-source agent harness for production operations. Rather than just validating that agents reach correct answers, Rogers analyzes how they get there through trace inspection and custom benchmarking. The piece explores AURA’s context management, including the Scratchpad feature that handles large tool outputs without overwhelming the model’s context window.