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Steve Morin
VP of Engineering at Flox. Building reproducible developer environments on Nix, and leading AI transformation across engineering.
about
I lead engineering at Flox, where we're making reproducible development environments something every team can use — not just Nix experts.
A former startup founder, I held engineering leadership roles at Instagram, Asana, and Yahoo, and was CTO of Tripping.com through its acquisition by HomeToGo. These days I spend my time on one question: how great engineering teams build great products in the age of agents.
14 U.S. patents and applications in AI, computer vision, and collaboration software — Instagram (Meta) and Asana. (Justia: Steve Morin · Steve B. Morin)
skills
I built these 34 agent skills for my own work and use them every day. They’re open source, MIT licensed, and run in Claude Code and Codex. Install the set or choose the ones you need. You’ll also find recommended skills from other creators and a collection for iOS and Mac development.
- /session-recapCatch yourself up on a session gone cold.
- /question-walkthroughDecide a pile of open questions one at a time.
- /explainExplanations anchored to a real example, every time.
- /html-codesignA decision page someone can operate and send back.
- /clear-technical-communicationRewrite technical prose so the reader infers nothing.
Works with any agent.
npx skills@latest add smorinlabs/smorinlabs-harnessquotes
now
These days I'm deep in agentic harnesses and fine-tuning — building the scaffolding that turns language models into dependable engineering teammates, and tuning the models themselves for the jobs that scaffolding reveals. This site is itself a product of that work: redesigned end-to-end by agents under supervision.
videos
I make short videos demystifying AI and engineering concepts for 15,000+ people who don't have time to read papers.
watch on tiktok ↗projects
agent-fork
An agentic skill in a CLI that forks a running coding agent — a new branch and worktree carrying the current file state, verified, with the exact command to resume in Claude Code or Codex.
doxa-research
AI-powered research assistant — a CLI that runs deep technical research across multiple LLM providers in parallel and ships clean, citable reports.
agent2linear
A Linear CLI built for humans and AI agents alike, optimized to minimize token usage and context-window waste.
envgen
Generate and validate .env files from one spec — self-documenting config, consistent across environments, secrets stay out of git.
Also a contributor to agent-deck, cmux, and raycast extensions.
patents
US11379908B2 · 3-D product reconstruction from crowd photos meta
Builds a spinnable 3-D model of a product by fusing a seller's catalog shots with everyday photos other users posted of the same item — AI vision turning crowd photos into shopping-grade 3-D.
US11704716B2 · auto-tagging products in photos meta
An AI vision model that recognizes catalog products inside a user's photo and tags them automatically — or offers a ranked shortlist when it isn't confident enough to decide alone.
US12579515B2 · meeting audio → work records asana
An AI model that learns how people link meeting recordings to their tasks, then maps new recordings to the right work items on its own — a recorded conversation becomes structured work without manual note-taking.
US12619954B2 · task creation from a language model asana
A language model trained on a team's own writing that drafts new tasks and work records itself — raw text in, a structured plan out.
speaking
GitHub Universe 2026 [proposed] — "From Vibes to Verified: Engineering Deterministic, Secure Agents," with Ron Efroni (Flox), Dex Horthy (HumanLayer), and Ankur Goyal (Braintrust).
advising
ADVISING
A decade-plus of advisory work: more than ten roles with early-stage developer-tools and AI companies, on engineering, management, product, and business strategy.
INVESTING
Separately, I'm an active startup investor — over twenty-seven investments to date, including Raycast, type.ai, and CopilotKit.