Astroloop is an Astro landing page template for AI agent products, built around the questions autonomy actually raises: what can it touch, what did it do, and what does it cost.https://astroloop.larryxue.dev/https://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/why-approval-is-not-a-prompt/https://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/why-approval-is-not-a-prompt/An instruction that says "always ask before merging" is a suggestion. Here is where we moved the check, and what it cost us to move it.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/what-a-run-actually-costs/https://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/what-a-run-actually-costs/We billed per seat for two months. Here is why we stopped, and what the numbers looked like on both sides of the change.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/the-transcript-is-the-product/https://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/the-transcript-is-the-product/We built the run transcript as a debugging tool for ourselves. It turned out to be the thing customers actually evaluate us on.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/we-deleted-the-chat-box/https://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/we-deleted-the-chat-box/The first version had a conversational interface because everything does. Removing it made the product easier to trust and considerably harder to demo.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/how-we-price-a-retry/https://astroloop.larryxue.dev/blog/how-we-price-a-retry/A run that fails six times and then succeeds is one run. Getting to that sentence took three pricing models and one very annoyed customer.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT