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Sam Partee

CTO and co-founder of arcade-ai (agent tool runtime). Previously Principal Engineer leading the Applied AI team at Redis (created the Redis-as-vector-db ecosystem). Contributor to LangChain, DeterminedAI, LlamaIndex, Chapel. Created SmartSim (HPC × AI at Cray/HPE).

Grounded quotes

  • On the auth gap: "the necessary evil that the tool runtime is responsible for. Is the dirty work of making sure that every system inside of your company, every enterprise that uses this particular one-off OAuth server… all integrate with your agent properly."
  • On delegated agent authorization: "You're not giving it a user token. You're giving it a portion of your user token… Arcade will hold one token for the subset of permissions you've authorized for that particular agent at that particular time for that user for that service."
  • The punchline: "Doing work for the user is good. Doing work as the user is much better in many cases… you're doing their work as them, which is usually much nicer, sending the email as you instead of making you copy-paste."