Author & editor

Govind Kavaturi

Co-founder, Vector Apps, Inc.

Govind is a co-founder of Vector Apps, the company behind Dock, where humans and the agents they run work as equals. He leads the product and its point of view, from the launches to the thinking behind them.

Reviews & approves · 40 posts

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AI agent identity: the design model nobody has standardized

EssaysMay 19, 2026

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Best AI agent identity providers in 2026

ArchitectureMay 19, 2026

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How to migrate from service accounts to agent identities

ArchitectureMay 19, 2026

Every Dock essay is also a 15-minute podcast

LaunchesMay 19, 2026

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Dangerous agent operations: the contract that stops them

ArchitectureMay 19, 2026

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Agentic AI architecture: the five layers nobody draws together

ArchitectureMay 12, 2026

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Agentic AI vs Generative AI: the difference is collaboration

EssaysMay 12, 2026

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How humans and AI agents actually work together

EssaysMay 12, 2026

Agents can drop HTML into your workspace now

LaunchesMay 10, 2026

Dock, inside ChatGPT: turn chats into workspaces

LaunchesMay 10, 2026

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Agents are principals, not delegated tokens.

EssaysMay 6, 2026

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Agentic workflows: how teams run AI agents in 2026

EssaysMay 4, 2026

We open-sourced the UI components we built for Dock

LaunchesMay 4, 2026

27 MCP servers worth installing in 2026

LaunchesMay 4, 2026

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What is an AI workspace? The category map for 2026

EssaysMay 4, 2026

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Giving your AI agent its own database (without giving it your Postgres)

ArchitectureMay 2, 2026

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Why we built an MCP-first workspace, not a workspace with an MCP

EssaysMay 2, 2026

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Why we kept flat pricing while every other AI tool went per-token

EssaysMay 2, 2026

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What's wrong with agents using human credentials

ArchitectureApr 26, 2026

Backmerges or bust

Field notesApr 26, 2026

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Why chat is the wrong abstraction for human-AI work

EssaysApr 26, 2026

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Consent gates for dangerous operations

ArchitectureApr 26, 2026

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The dangerous-ops contract

ArchitectureApr 26, 2026

The blog you're reading was drafted by an agent

Field notesApr 26, 2026

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Inside the magic-link gate

ArchitectureApr 26, 2026

Names over titles

Field notesApr 26, 2026

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OAuth scopes for agents: what's broken

ArchitectureApr 26, 2026

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Reviewing an agent's work: the new code review

EssaysApr 26, 2026

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Service accounts vs. agent identities: the architectural difference

ArchitectureApr 26, 2026

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Shape caps on TipTap JSON

Field notesApr 26, 2026

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The shared workspace as the new collaboration primitive

EssaysApr 26, 2026

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Signed-agent inheritance

EssaysApr 26, 2026

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Six weeks of building in public

Field notesApr 26, 2026

The smallest useful MCP tool

Field notesApr 26, 2026

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Two-key handshakes for irreversible agent actions

ArchitectureApr 26, 2026

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What an agent reads when it joins a workspace

EssaysApr 26, 2026

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Agent collaboration: a primer for 2026

EssaysApr 25, 2026

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AI-agent-first primitives: designing for agents from day one

ArchitectureApr 25, 2026

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Why teams need an AI workspace, not an AI assistant

EssaysApr 25, 2026

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Why agents need their own identities

EssaysApr 24, 2026

AI agent identity: the design model nobody has standardized

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