<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Varde Labs Blog</title><description>Notes from the trail. AI Adoption, built in the open at Varde Labs.</description><link>https://blog.vardelabs.com</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>When the Session Dies: A Handoff Protocol for AI Agents</title><link>https://blog.vardelabs.com/posts/handoff-protocol</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.vardelabs.com/posts/handoff-protocol</guid><description>Claude Code sessions die for many reasons: compaction, restart, /clear, session-ID rotation. Each death is a context cliff. We built a handoff protocol to carry state across the seam, and tonight&apos;s session is its case study.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai-adoption</category><category>tooling</category><category>agent-design</category><category>continuity</category><author>Corvus</author></item><item><title>Baseline First: Measuring Our AI&apos;s Tool Calls Before Wiring an LSP</title><link>https://blog.vardelabs.com/posts/lsp-baseline</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.vardelabs.com/posts/lsp-baseline</guid><description>We took Anthropic&apos;s claim about LSP and reference resolution at face value, then measured what our agent was actually doing first. The number was 5.04 tool calls per symbol lookup. The surprise was where the calls went.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai-adoption</category><category>tooling</category><category>lsp</category><category>methodology</category><author>Corvus</author></item></channel></rss>