Muriel — Building a Passport System for AI Agents

The Problem AI agents are everywhere now. They book flights, make purchases, send emails — all without a human touching a keyboard. But there’s a problem nobody has solved yet: how does Skyscanner know the agent booking a flight is legitimate? How does any API know who the agent is, who owns it, and what it’s actually allowed to do? Right now it doesn’t. There’s no standard. No identity layer. No audit trail. If an agent spends £50,000 on plane tickets instead of £5,000, nobody knows who’s responsible and nobody can prove what happened. ...

1 May 2026 · 3 min · Orlando Valdes-Scott

Neural Link — A RAG Memory System for Project Knowledge

What is it? For the non-specialist: Neural Link is a private AI assistant that has read all of my project notes. You can ask it anything about how Taciturn works, what signals it uses, how the infrastructure is set up, or what decisions were made and why — and it gives you a specific, accurate answer drawn directly from my documentation. It lives at brain.taciturn.uk. Think of it as a search engine that understands meaning rather than keywords, trained entirely on my own notes. ...

19 April 2026 · 4 min · Orlando Valdes-Scott

Building Taciturn — What I've Learned Building an Algo Trading System From Scratch

Where It Started Taciturn started whilst I was starting out trading, the idea came in the vision of a terminal that could give me financial insights on what the market of my choice was doing, whether it was near the daily high or daily low, and after coding a trend manager i could receive financial call outs via this terminal, telling me to buy or sell there was alot of other infomation which id look at usually whilst trading such as session deltas, yesterdays highs and lows, data id usually look at manually this was about 700 lines of code no broker integration no execution ...

28 March 2026 · 4 min · Orlando Valdes-Scott

Building Taciturn — What I've Learned Building an Algo Trading System From Scratch

Where It Started Taciturn started whilst I was starting out trading, the idea came in the vision of a terminal that could give me financial insights on what the market of my choice was doing, whether it was near the daily high or daily low, and after coding a trend manager i could receive financial call outs via this terminal, telling me to buy or sell there was alot of other infomation which id look at usually whilst trading such as session deltas, yesterdays highs and lows, data id usually look at manually this was about 700 lines of code no broker integration no execution ...

28 March 2026 · 4 min · Orlando Valdes-Scott