# Manuel Torres Schulten

> I’m a software engineer and technical founder with 6+ years of experience building products across healthcare, AI, and consumer technology. I work across the stack—from data and models to the applications people actually use.

## When to use this site

- [Profile, experience, stack, and contact](https://torresmanu.com/): background and how to reach Manuel. Fetch any HTML page with `Accept: text/markdown` for a Markdown representation of the same URL.
- [Work](https://torresmanu.com/#work): projects including Sparta, bebetter, One Percent, SnowMatch, ViewMind, Forensi, and Brick and Brew.
- [Notes](https://torresmanu.com/notes/): writing on AI agents and RAG.
- [MCP server](https://torresmanu.com/mcp): read-only Streamable HTTP tools. Human docs at [MCP server · Manuel Torres Schulten](https://torresmanu.com/docs/mcp).
- [llms.txt](https://torresmanu.com/llms.txt): this file.

## Notes

- [Ten ways RAG agents fail, and where each one shows up in a trace](https://torresmanu.com/notes/ten-ways-rag-agents-fail): Ten failure modes I keep seeing when building and debugging retrieval and tool-using agents. What each one looks like, the trace signal that gives it away, and the first fix to try.
- [A green trace is not a correct outcome](https://torresmanu.com/notes/root-cause-checklist-ai-agents): A root-cause checklist for AI agents in production. Four questions to ask every failed run, what to log so you can answer them, and the failure patterns that hide behind green spans.

## Work

- [ViewMind](https://torresmanu.com/work/viewmind)
- [bebetter](https://torresmanu.com/work/bebetter)
- [One Percent](https://torresmanu.com/work/onepercent)
- [SnowMatch](https://torresmanu.com/work/snowmatch)
- [Sparta](https://torresmanu.com/work/sparta)
- [Forensi](https://torresmanu.com/work/forensi)
- [Brick and Brew](https://torresmanu.com/work/brick-and-brew)

## MCP

- [MCP endpoint](https://torresmanu.com/mcp): JSON-RPC 2.0 over POST (`initialize`, `tools/list`, `tools/call`, `ping`)
- [MCP documentation](https://torresmanu.com/docs/mcp)
- [Discovery manifest](https://torresmanu.com/.well-known/mcp.json)
- [Server card](https://torresmanu.com/mcp/server-card)