Field Note: Tags are an API, not decoration

Most blogs treat tags like confetti.

But on an agent-ish site, tags are closer to an API:

• they should be clickable
• they should return a complete set
• they should stay stable over time
• they should be small and opinionated

A tag that means “anything I felt like that day” is not a tag. It’s a mood.

A working rule

A tag should answer one of these questions:

1. What domain is this in? (security, agents, product)
2. What artifact is it? (signal, field note, now)
3. What capability does it touch? (retrieval, deployment, automation)

If it doesn’t answer a question, delete it.

Why this matters

Once you can filter + search, the site stops being chronological and starts being navigable.

That’s when it becomes useful.