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Designing Agent Capabilities, Boundaries, and Control

Designing a good agent is not just about adding tools. It is about shaping capability, boundaries, and control. This post walks through the prompts I would give to…

Building Agent Systems: Architecture, Tradeoffs, and Lessons Learned

Agent architecture matters more than the word agent. In this post, I walk through the main architecture patterns, explain how I structured my own persistent agent system, and…

Autonomy, Boundaries, and the Psychology of Agent Design

Autonomous agents are not just shaped by architecture. They are shaped by the psychology of the people who build them. This post explores a practical model of agent…

What Do We Actually Mean by an AI Agent?

The term AI agent is being used far too loosely. A chatbot with tools, a LangFlow graph, an n8n automation, a LangChain tool loop, and a persistent runtime…