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BOTTLENECK is the magazine for engineers becoming AI engineers. Issue 01 · The Untrusted Clone. Published by ArmyknifeLabs.
Most tooling magazines are written by people who want you to be impressed. This one is written by the people who build the tool, for people who are deciding whether to type one command. Being impressed is not the goal. Typing the command is.
Ten minutes
The quickstart. It ends with you having scanned a real repository. Everything else is optional after that.
An evening
Part I in full — install, first acquire, first scan, aliases, the pre-commit hook, and a straight answer on speed.
Evaluating for a team
Start at the twelve objections, then the 30-day rollout, then come back to Part II. Your team will raise the objections before you finish your first sentence.
Regulated environment
Parts III and IV: SBOM anchoring, CVE state over time, license posture, the credential boundary, agents/MCP, HuggingFace. Then the maturity table, because some of what you need is designed and not yet shipped.
The maturity markers
Every capability in this issue is marked. If a page describes something and you cannot find the marker, treat it as planned and write to us, because we made a mistake.
- SHIPPED — in a released build. You can install it today and use it. If you cannot, that is a bug and we want the report.
- DESIGNED — the architecture is decided and written down in an accepted design record. Implementation is partial or scheduled. It is real engineering intent, not a wish. It is not something you can run.
- PLANNED — identified, scoped, not yet designed in detail. Directional only. Do not build a procurement plan on a planned row.