MNZR Work

Case Studies and Papers by Manazir Ali

Forecasting When LLM Agent Memory Goes Stale (ANAMNESIS)

LLM memory doesn't only get written wrong, it goes stale. A local-first system that forecasts which stored facts will corrupt, and repairs them first.

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How Far Agent Scaffolding Takes a Weak LLM

Whether a cheap model wrapped in deterministic retrieval, curated tools, and verification loops can reach frontier-tier output. Evidence and limits.

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Hardening an AI Agent That Has Write Access to Your Files

Least-privilege subagents, append-only enforcement, and cutting the lethal trifecta by removing the exfiltration channel at the permission layer.

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Vectorless RAG: LLM Retrieval Without a Vector Database

A few hundred Markdown pages, no embeddings and no vector store. Deterministic two-step index retrieval at about 1.2 tool calls per lookup.

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Building a Local-First Personal AI With Tiered Memory (Hydra)

A self-hosted personal AI assistant with four-tier brain-mapped memory, a two-instance LAN topology, and blockchain-anchored provenance.

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Building Microservices Full-Stack: From Zero to Production

A 16-chapter guide to Clean Architecture, TypeScript microservices, the Next.js BFF pattern, and Kubernetes, built around a real grocery app.

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Building a Personal Knowledge Graph API in FastAPI

A typed personal knowledge graph exposed as a FastAPI service with a Typer CLI, and a runtime protocol that swaps the storage backend.

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Meat Shop POS - Business Management & Accounting System

Production POS and accounting system for a meat retail business: supplier receipts, sales lifecycle, cash ledger, and daily reconciliation.

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A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Architecture for Software Engineering

Design and production validation of an 18-agent, four-tier multi-agent system for software engineering, with a cost-of-reversal model.

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The Night the Terminal Became a Canvas

A personal journey building a permissioned blockchain MVP: infrastructure, chaincode, backend bridge, and a Next.js wallet, lessons in simplicity, trust, and resilient systems.

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Iman Academy Sri Lanka – Official Website

Custom WordPress site delivering identity, curriculum, alumni stories, events, and donation flows for an educational institution.

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Bookstore RESTful API – JAX-RS Coursework

Java JAX-RS backend powering CRUD for books, authors, customers, carts, and orders with layered architecture and clean resource modeling.

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DineEase – Restaurant Booking & Meal Pre‑Ordering Platform

Full-stack Next.js + Firebase platform enabling table reservations, real-time order tracking, meal pre-ordering, ML recommendations, and AR meal previews.

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React Estate Agent App – Property Search SPA

Responsive React + Vite single-page app for property discovery with filtering, detail views, maps, and favorites persistence.

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Real-Time Event Ticketing System – Multithreaded Producer/Consumer Platform

Concurrency-driven ticket distribution system with Java multithreading core, Angular + Spring Boot UI/API, and real-time WebSocket logging.

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