Hi, subscribers, Quick heads-up on a change that keeps this community worth your time.
Starting October 20, 2026, creating new chat threads in our community becomes a paid subscriber perk.
Everyone — free and paid — can still read every thread and reply to any of them. Nothing about reading or replying changes.
To see what others discussed in this Substack chats, please visit here
This community now reaches more than 129,000 readers. That scale is something we're proud of, and it asks something of us: the quality of discussion has to keep up with the size of the room.
The strength of this community is its people — builders shipping agents and securing them. Putting new threads in the hands of paid members keeps our signal strong. Every new discussion starts from someone invested in the craft, which keeps conversations focused, practical, and worth your time.
It also makes thread creation a real perk of paid membership. Paid members fund this publication. They deserve a room where starting a conversation is part of what their subscription gives them.
And every paid subscription directly funds the work you read here: the deep builder's guides, the diagrams, the threat reports, and the schemas and checklists you can copy into your own systems.
If you read for free, you keep everything you have today: every thread, every reply, full read access across the community. The only thing that changes is who can start a new thread.
Paid membership has always been about the implementation layer under every post. As a paid subscriber you get:
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Go paid: every analysis becomes something you can ship — templates, schemas, builder's guides with diagrams, threat reports, and the GitHub repos when relevant
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Copy-paste builder artifacts: event schemas, rubrics, checklists, metrics templates
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GitHub repo access related to some articles
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The full archive of past paid playbooks
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And from October 20: the ability to start new chat threads
Founding members get everything in Paid, plus a 30-minute virtual meeting with me — book by email to ken@distributedapps.ai with a list of questions you'd like to discuss.
These are the three most-read articles on the publication. Each has a paid portion that only paid subscribers can read in full:
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Claude Fable 5 (Part 1): What Changed, and How to Stop Prompting It Like Opus — https://kenhuangus.substack.com/p/claude-fable-5-what-changed-and-how
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CLAUDE CODE ORCHESTRATION — https://kenhuangus.substack.com/p/claude-code-orchestration-dynamic
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OWASP Publishes Agentic Skills Top 10 v1.0 — https://kenhuangus.substack.com/p/for-immediate-release-owasp-publishes
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If you start threads today and want to keep doing it, convert to paid before October 20, 2026. After that date, the change takes effect automatically.
Thank you to everyone who has supported this publication so far — readers, commenters, and especially the paid members who make the deep work possible. # # We're building something rare here: a practitioner community that ships.
— Ken
