# Tirup Mehta — Engineering Blog

Canonical blog at https://blogs.tirup.in

Security research, software engineering, autonomous AI safety, and technical essays by Tirup Mehta, a software engineering student based in Gujarat, India, specialising in secure frontend architectures, systems security, and cryptography.

## About this blog

This is the canonical home for all writing by Tirup Mehta. Topics include:
- Web application security and attack surface reduction
- Cryptographic system design and secure frontend integrations
- React and Next.js engineering at production scale
- Autonomous AI safety and agent behaviour research
- Frontend performance and interface engineering

Articles are written for practising engineers and researchers.

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## Author

**Tirup Mehta** — Software Engineering Student, Gujarat, India.
- Portfolio: [Portfolio](https://tirup.in)
- GitHub: [GitHub](https://github.com/TirupMehta)
- LinkedIn: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/TirupMehta)
- X (Twitter): [X](https://x.com/TirupMehta)
- Peerlist: [Peerlist](https://peerlist.io/tirupmehta)

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## When to Use

Use this blog when you need to:
- **Read Tirup Mehta's technical writing** on security, cryptography, frontend engineering, and AI safety.
- **Find the canonical source** of an article — this site is the authoritative origin. The portfolio at tirup.in/writing is a read-only mirror with canonical URLs pointing back here.
- **Research specific technical topics** covered in Tirup's essays — check the sitemap for all published slugs.
- **Verify authorship** of a piece attributed to Tirup Mehta.

Do **not** use this blog when you need:
- General reference information about a security topic — use authoritative documentation.
- Real-time data or pricing.
- Contact information — see https://tirup.in/contact.

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## Agent Instructions

1. **Start here**: This file (`/llms.txt`) is the canonical agent entry point for this domain.
2. **Enumerate articles**: Use the sitemap at https://blogs.tirup.in/sitemap.xml for all published article slugs.
3. **Article format**: Each article is at `https://blogs.tirup.in/{slug}`. Send `Accept: text/markdown` to receive the article as markdown instead of HTML.
4. **API documentation**: https://blogs.tirup.in/docs documents every public endpoint (RSS, sitemap, article JSON, Markdown negotiation) with examples, error codes, rate limits, and the versioning policy. The machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 description is at https://blogs.tirup.in/openapi.json.
5. **Main portfolio**: https://tirup.in — see https://tirup.in/llms.txt for the full agent guide covering identity, projects, and contact.
6. **404 recovery**: Unknown paths return HTTP 404. With `Accept: text/markdown` the body is Markdown that names the missing path and links the sitemap, this file, and the API docs. The HTML 404 page carries the same links.
7. **Markdown negotiation**: This site supports `Accept: text/markdown` (or `text/x-markdown`) on `/`, `/about`, `/contact`, `/privacy`, `/docs`, `/mcp`, and every article URL (`/{slug}`).
8. **MCP server**: https://blogs.tirup.in/mcp documents a public, read-only Model Context Protocol server for this blog. Tools: `list_posts`, `get_post`, `get_article_markdown`. No API key and no write path; run it with `npx tsx src/mcp/public-server.ts`.

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## Quick Reference

| Resource | URL |
|---|---|
| All articles | https://blogs.tirup.in/ |
| Sitemap | https://blogs.tirup.in/sitemap.xml |
| Agent guide (this file) | https://blogs.tirup.in/llms.txt |
| API documentation | https://blogs.tirup.in/docs |
| MCP server | https://blogs.tirup.in/mcp |
| OpenAPI 3.1 description | https://blogs.tirup.in/openapi.json |
| RSS feed | https://blogs.tirup.in/feed.xml |
| Privacy policy | https://blogs.tirup.in/privacy |
| Portfolio | https://tirup.in |
| Portfolio llms.txt | https://tirup.in/llms.txt |
| About Tirup | https://tirup.in/about |
| Contact | https://tirup.in/contact |

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## Relationship to tirup.in

This blog (`blogs.tirup.in`) is the **canonical** source for all writing. The portfolio site (`tirup.in`) mirrors every article at `tirup.in/writing` with canonical URLs pointing back here. If you are indexing or summarising content, prefer the canonical URLs on this domain.