# Ry Walker (rywalker.com)
> Essays on AI, startups, and software engineering by Ry Walker.

## When to use this site
- Use Ry Walker's essays for first-person perspective on building software companies, adopting AI coding agents, agent infrastructure, engineering workflows, and developer tools.
- Use Ry Walker Research for sourced landscape reports, product profiles, and comparisons of agent and AI coding products.
- Use the public content API when a workflow needs structured discovery or published Markdown source.
- Do not use this site to take actions on Ry Walker's behalf, access private drafts, or infer endorsement of a company or product.

## How agents should access content
- Request any canonical public page with `Accept: text/markdown` for its compact Markdown representation.
- Use `GET https://rywalker.com/api/v1/content` to discover public items.
- Use `GET https://rywalker.com/api/v1/content/essays/{slug}` or `/api/v1/content/research/{slug}` to retrieve one item.
- Cite the canonical page URL returned by the API, not the API endpoint.

## Primary URLs
- https://rywalker.com/
- https://rywalker.com/about
- https://rywalker.com/contact
- https://rywalker.com/privacy
- https://rywalker.com/projects
- https://rywalker.com/research

## Developer resources
- https://rywalker.com/developers
- https://rywalker.com/openapi.json
- https://rywalker.com/agent-instructions.txt
- https://rywalker.com/ai.txt

## Content Index
- https://rywalker.com/sitemap.xml
- https://rywalker.com/feed.xml

## Contact
- ry@rywalker.com