Technical writing from the Ranger engineering team.https://outpost.ranger.net/https://outpost.ranger.net/post/the-hidden-cost-of-fewer-tokens/https://outpost.ranger.net/post/the-hidden-cost-of-fewer-tokens/We wanted to know whether the Playwright CLI would make our tooling more context efficient, faster, and cheaper. The results were decidedly mixed.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTMikayla Thompsonhttps://outpost.ranger.net/post/when-a-test-fails-solving-automated-triage/https://outpost.ranger.net/post/when-a-test-fails-solving-automated-triage/Building agents for complex problems — how we improved our Triage agent's accuracy by 400% through better evaluation, better questions, and understanding how agents think.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTJon Hiebhttps://outpost.ranger.net/post/product-drift/https://outpost.ranger.net/post/product-drift/Agents can generate features faster than you can read them. The product doesn't just move forward — it starts to drift.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTJosh Iphttps://outpost.ranger.net/post/why-youre-overthinking-background-agents/https://outpost.ranger.net/post/why-youre-overthinking-background-agents/If you can run your system locally on your machine, you can have background agents that anyone at your company can use to ship features from Slack. That's really the bar.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTDaniel Griffinhttps://outpost.ranger.net/post/why-we-built-a-qa-agent-for-our-background-agent/https://outpost.ranger.net/post/why-we-built-a-qa-agent-for-our-background-agent/Our background agent writes the code like any other coding agent, but can now use Ranger to close the loop by testing itself and showcasing its work back to us for review.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAdwith Mukherjee, Chris Sheafe, Josh Ip, Mikayla Thompson