{ "type": "tag", "title": "Mullet", "canonical": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/tag/mullet", "path": "/writing/tag/mullet", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/tag/mullet", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/tag/mullet.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/tag/mullet.json", "feed": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/tag/mullet.rss", "items": [ { "type": "article", "title": "Safe by default: a local AI server and a cheap model with a shell", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/safe-by-default-a-local-ai-server-and-a-cheap-model-with-a-shell", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/safe-by-default-a-local-ai-server-and-a-cheap-model-with-a-shell.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/safe-by-default-a-local-ai-server-and-a-cheap-model-with-a-shell.json", "summary": "A hardening pass on Mullet: a local server that a web page could not be stopped from calling, tools that fetched any address, and cheap models with more tools than they needed. What each guard checks and where to change it.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Every session starts with one question: what’s the budget?", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/every-session-starts-with-one-question", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/every-session-starts-with-one-question.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/every-session-starts-with-one-question.json", "summary": "A Claude Code hook opens each session by asking how much to spend and how much to delegate to cheaper models, then makes Mullet’s jobs follow the answer.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Mullet is free for your company", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/mullet-is-free-for-your-company", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/mullet-is-free-for-your-company.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/mullet-is-free-for-your-company.json", "summary": "Mullet’s licence used to say one developer, one running instance. It now allows free production use for any purpose, including inside a company, with one exclusion: offering Mullet to others as a service.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "We checked the bill, and our ledger was wrong by half", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/we-checked-the-bill-and-our-ledger-was-wrong-by-half", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/we-checked-the-bill-and-our-ledger-was-wrong-by-half.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/we-checked-the-bill-and-our-ledger-was-wrong-by-half.json", "summary": "Mullet’s ledger said about $38 for a weekend of jobs. The providers billed about $50. How I found the gap, why one OpenRouter model was recorded at about a third of its cost, and the checks that now catch it.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Why Mullet doesn’t use FreeLLMAPI", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/why-mullet-doesnt-use-freellmapi", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/why-mullet-doesnt-use-freellmapi.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/why-mullet-doesnt-use-freellmapi.json", "summary": "FreeLLMAPI puts dozens of free LLM tiers behind one endpoint, and it is a good tool for what it says it is for. Mullet 2 needs to know which model did each step and whose terms apply to my code, so it uses one named OpenRouter free model, for public repos only, instead. That rung hasn’t run yet.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "The delegation ladder, or who does each step", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/the-delegation-ladder", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/the-delegation-ladder.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/the-delegation-ladder.json", "summary": "How Mullet 2 hands each step of a coding job to the cheapest worker that can pass its checks: free and local models first, then Kimi and OpenRouter, Claude last, with the order set by how much of my Claude week is left.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "A 30-minute test suite in five minutes", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/a-30-minute-test-suite-in-five", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/a-30-minute-test-suite-in-five.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/a-30-minute-test-suite-in-five.json", "summary": "Cutting every test off from the real world let Mullet’s tests (about 17,700 when I wrote this) run in parallel, and flushed out a real Kimi call and a fixture deleting a real file.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Running your own Claude subscription unattended", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/running-your-own-claude-subscription-unattended", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/running-your-own-claude-subscription-unattended.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/running-your-own-claude-subscription-unattended.json", "summary": "Mullet 2 drives your own claude -p, touches no credentials, pauses at usage limits, and reads usage from the statusline. Plus an API key trap worth knowing.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Sandboxing an AI coding worker", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/sandboxing-an-ai-coding-worker", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/sandboxing-an-ai-coding-worker.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/sandboxing-an-ai-coding-worker.json", "summary": "How Mullet 2 keeps a coding worker in a private clone behind bubblewrap, and what probing the real Claude Code binary turned up that the docs did not.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Gates, not a model’s word", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/gates-not-a-models-word", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/gates-not-a-models-word.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/gates-not-a-models-word.json", "summary": "How Mullet 2 decides a coding step is done: eight gates that read the diff and the test results, and a reviewer that can block a step but never pass one.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Mullet 2, coding jobs you can leave running", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/mullet-2-coding-jobs-you-can-leave-running", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/mullet-2-coding-jobs-you-can-leave-running.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/mullet-2-coding-jobs-you-can-leave-running.json", "summary": "Mullet 2 plans a coding job, runs it unattended in a sandboxed clone, and passes each step only on evidence. Why I rebuilt it, and how to try it.", "published": "2026-10-25" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Picking the cheapest model that can do the job", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/picking-the-cheapest-model-that-can-do-the-job", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/picking-the-cheapest-model-that-can-do-the-job.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/picking-the-cheapest-model-that-can-do-the-job.json", "summary": "How Mullet sizes up a task, picks the cheapest model that clears a quality floor for it, and carries on when OpenRouter withdraws a model without notice.", "published": "2026-10-21" }, { "type": "article", "title": "Checking a delegate’s edits before trusting them", "url": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/checking-a-delegates-edits", "markdown": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/checking-a-delegates-edits.md", "json": "https://www.dealmobile.co.uk/writing/checking-a-delegates-edits.json", "summary": "How Mullet decides what a cheaper model actually changed, and flags the edits worth a second look, without asking another model and without trusting the first one’s word.", "published": "2026-10-20" } ] }