R7 Orbit https://r7orbit.io/ News, builds and the things in between: writing, videos, projects and code about building with AI. en Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sample: a new open-weights model lands, and the benchmarks argue back https://r7orbit.io/news/2026-10-03-open-weights-model-lands/ https://r7orbit.io/news/2026-10-03-open-weights-model-lands/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Source: Example Lab (sample). What changed, what didn't, and which claims deserve a second look before you rebuild anything around it. open-weights evals Source: Example Lab (sample)

What changed, what didn't, and which claims deserve a second look before you rebuild anything around it.

]]> An article built from components https://r7orbit.io/blog/an-article-built-from-components/ https://r7orbit.io/blog/an-article-built-from-components/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A sample post with a featured image, a figure, a callout, a pull quote, two columns, an image row and a code block. site-notes This is sample content. It exists to test the article components together with the featured image, the table of contents and the share image, and to show how the admin writes them.

A figure

An image with a caption, written the way the admin’s Figure block writes it. The file lives in public/media/.

Four brass rings around a small bright dot, drawn as a placeholder for this sample post.
A placeholder drawing. Replace it with your own image.

A callout and a pull quote

Where the images go.

The featured image goes in src/assets/blog/ and is optimised at build time. Images in the body go in public/media/ and are used as they are.

Two columns and an image row

The left column holds the longer text. On a wide screen it takes two thirds of the width, and below 720px the columns stack.

The right column is for a short aside, a list, or a note.

Two brass rings on the left of the frame with a small dot to their right.
Rings on the left
Two brass rings on the right of the frame with a small dot to their left.
Rings on the right

Code

npm run dev
npm run cms

That is every block in one post. It is a sample and can be deleted.

]]> Sample: a featured image behind the headline https://r7orbit.io/blog/a-featured-image-on-a-post/ https://r7orbit.io/blog/a-featured-image-on-a-post/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short sample post that shows the optional hero image, which sits behind the breadcrumbs and title, under a dark gradient. site-notes This is sample content. It exists to show the optional featured image on a blog post, and to test it.

How it works

Add featuredImage (a file under src/assets/) and featuredImageAlt to a post’s front matter. Leave them out and the post keeps its plain header.

Why a gradient

The text is always ivory, so the image gets a dark gradient that keeps it readable.

]]> Sample: why every agent gets its own room https://r7orbit.io/blog/why-every-agent-gets-its-own-room/ https://r7orbit.io/blog/why-every-agent-gets-its-own-room/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Running several AI agents on one repo goes wrong in quiet ways. The fix turns out to be old advice about folders and branches. ai-agents git When two agents edit the same folder at the same time, they trample each other. They don’t crash. They quietly overwrite each other’s work, and you find out three commits later.

The old fix

Git already has the answer: worktrees. Give each task its own folder and its own branch, and let a person decide what gets merged.

git worktree add ../app.orbit/fix-header -b orbit/fix-header

Small rooms, clear doors

A list keeps this honest:

  • One task, one folder, one branch.
  • Nothing runs a command unseen.
  • Finished work merges itself; clashes go back to the agent that caused them.

An agent that can break nothing is an agent you can let run.

Sample pull quote

What I’d do differently

(Sample text. Replace with what you actually learned.)

]]> Sample: I built a game with AI agents https://r7orbit.io/vlogs/i-built-a-game-with-a-team-of-ai-agents/ https://r7orbit.io/vlogs/i-built-a-game-with-a-team-of-ai-agents/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A walkthrough of building a small browser game with several agents working at once, including the moment two of them had to settle a merge conflict. ai-agents game-dev video A walkthrough of building a small browser game with several agents working at once, including the moment two of them had to settle a merge conflict.

Watch the video

]]> example-repo (sample) https://r7orbit.io/repos/example-repo/ https://r7orbit.io/repos/example-repo/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A small command-line tool that does one thing well. (Sample.) tooling typescript Sample project: R7 Orbit https://r7orbit.io/projects/r7-orbit/ https://r7orbit.io/projects/r7-orbit/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A desktop app for directing AI coding agents on your git repos, each task in its own worktree, with approvals and diff review. ai-agents electron typescript tooling