Grayson Hicks

customer engineer @mastra

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[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

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[Tyler Barnes @tylbar]

🚨We shipped a new context engineering primitive @mastra today, Agent Signals! (alpha)
🔓Unlocks: multiplayer steering, dynamic cacheable system prompts, agent notifications (gh/email/etc), and automatic behavior guidance 🧵

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@suekhim I have 5 kids from age 9 to 17, would love an invite to check it out. Looks great.

[Sam Bhagwat @calcsam]

We're launching Agent Builder, your internal agent platform:

- Devs write tools, select models, build workflows
- Non-dev teammates assemble into agents (or vibe code), chat, publish
- Includes RBAC, ownership, and visibility controls
- Under the hood everything's Mastra agents

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@adamdotdev this is why I call 'Kobe!' every time I merge

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@mastra 🔥🔥🔥

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

I’ve always been drawn to Adam Smith’s pin factory story. I first read it in high school, and it’s stayed with me ever since as a way to think about efficiency and productivity.

That same story has become one of the clearest mental models I use for building reliable multi-agent AI systems. Wrote about it here:

https://t.co/yQmk3iY30E

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@kenwheeler @chipro definitely the way: https://t.co/eP7ZjKpyva

[Joonho Lee @junja941]

In the end, it was not about fancy large models or massive datasets. We chose to harness small learned models within well-established workflow tools such as state machines and behavior trees.

That made the system more predictable, debuggable, and easier to integrate.

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@kenwheeler @chipro oh I see, yea I didn't mean (or recommend) purely 'agent driven' workflows. should definitely be using some sort of workflow lib to enforce this stuff, agreed.

[Shane Thomas @smthomas3]

Studio.
Server.
Memory Gateway.

@mastra is no longer just a framework, it's a platform.

Here is our keynote from TSAI Demo day.

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

Inspo from @seekayel

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

AI agents aren’t employees. They’re interns.

Give them clear tasks, tight feedback loops, and guardails, and they can do incredible work. But don't leave them unsupervised.

Wrote about that mental model here: https://t.co/MRY4TFW2Su

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

why hasnt anyone just made an AI agent to open the straight of hormuz?

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

I wrote a blog post about using AI to write blog posts and why we draw the lines where we do. Yes, I see the irony.

https://t.co/Ig8GYcvdmf

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@benrobertsonio want to like the tweet but hate the content

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@ryanflorence One analogy that really helped me was: "Hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping it hurts them."

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@IterIntellectus ask it how many r's in strawberry

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@kenwheeler @thekitze this guy eats

[Grayson Hicks @graysonhicks]

@faizan10114 @calcsam Changelog can be found here: https://t.co/AaLQOKyZ4O

Can I ask where you found that changelog link? Want to fix that.

[Sam Bhagwat @calcsam]

We’re excited to announce today that @mastra has raised a $22M Series A led by Spark Capital.

This brings our total capital raised to $35M: