--- title: "Liran Baba" description: "AI Lead at JFrog. Writing about dev tools, agents, and the practical side of shipping AI inside a real company." canonical: https://liranbaba.dev/ doc_version: 2026-07-29 last_updated: 2026-07-29 --- # Liran Baba > AI Lead at JFrog. Writing about dev tools, agents, and the practical side of shipping AI inside a real company. ## About 18 years in enterprise tech. I lead AI on JFrog's CIO team. Day to day that looks like evaluating tools, building internal platforms, and working with engineering and security to get AI into actual workflows. Less "art of the possible," more "will this pass a security review." I got here through a long stretch at Avaya, where I architected solutions for Dell, Apple, Boeing, and Comcast, and built tools for speech analytics and knowledge management. That background is probably why I care more about integration headaches than hype cycles. I also mentor people on AI adoption and build things on the side, mostly productivity tools and automation. ## Projects ### GolemPII-v1 Hebrew PII detection and redaction model. No dedicated Hebrew PII detection model existed for local deployment. GolemPII fills that gap with a fine-tuned model trained on 115K Hebrew examples, enabling privacy compliance with Israeli data protection regulations without sending data to external APIs. - Type: ML Model - Status: Released - Stack: ML, NLP, Transformers, Hebrew - Link: https://huggingface.co/CordwainerSmith/GolemPII-v1 ### Claudoscope Cost visibility and session analytics for Claude Code. Claude Code users had no way to track spending or analyze usage patterns across sessions. Claudoscope gives them a native macOS dashboard for real-time cost monitoring. - Type: macOS App - Status: Active - Stack: macOS, Swift, Claude Code - Link: https://claudoscope.com ### Adapt-CV Align resumes with job descriptions for better ATS pass rates. Job seekers struggle to tailor resumes for each application. Adapt-CV analyzes the gap between a resume and a job description, then suggests targeted improvements to increase ATS compatibility. - Type: Web App - Status: Active - Stack: Streamlit, Claude API, Python - Link: https://huggingface.co/spaces/CordwainerSmith/adapt-cv ### Reddit MCP MCP server for searching and reading Reddit. AI agents have no way to access Reddit. This server gives MCP-compatible agents 13 tools for browsing posts, threads, user profiles, and subreddit wikis. Credentials rotate automatically with per-key rate limiting. - Type: MCP Server - Status: Active - Stack: Python, MCP, AsyncPRAW - Link: https://github.com/cordwainersmith/reddit-mcp ## Writing - [The hard part of a self-service agent platform isn't the agents](/blog/self-service-agent-platform-hard-part.md): Gartner expects 40% of enterprise apps to ship AI agents by end of 2026. After building AgentHive at JFrog, I think generating the agent is the easy part. - [Boost compressed 212M tokens out of my agent sessions. Here are the receipts](/blog/boost-faster-agents-faster-ci.md): Boost wraps every CLI my agents touch. Across 964 sessions it compressed 212M tokens (63.4%) and saved $1,060. The three pillars and what they actually do. - [Why every Ghostty tab said 'Claude Code' (and the 30-line zsh hook that fixed it)](/blog/ghostty-tab-titles-claude-code.md): Every Ghostty tab said 'Claude Code'. Two configs and a 30-line zsh hook turned the tab bar back into useful navigation across 4-pane workflows. - [Claude Code hooks: the half of Claude Code nobody uses](/blog/claude-code-hooks-the-half-nobody-uses.md): Skills feel like capability. Hooks are enforcement. Inside: the full event reference, 10 real hooks (one cuts tokens 73%), and the enterprise patterns nobody writes. - [ForgeCode vs Claude Code: which AI coding agent actually wins?](/blog/forgecode-vs-claude-code.md): Claude Code's speed was driving me and my team crazy. I tried ForgeCode. The speed was real. Now I'm running both. Full index: [/blog/index.md](/blog/index.md) ## Elsewhere - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liranba/) - [GitHub](https://github.com/CordwainerSmith) - [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/CordwainerSmith) ## Sitemap - [Full sitemap](/sitemap.md)