Operating manual
Tag: Agent Operations
A focused reading path for Agent Operations: related field notes, evidence trails, and operating questions from the archive.
- the-last-wrong-step-is-not-where-the-agent-failure-started.md
The Last Wrong Step Is Not Where Failure Started
A four-stage operator model for tracing long-horizon agent errors from their initiating deviation through propagation, resolution, and terminal impact.
open artifact → - your-ai-security-checklist-has-a-version-problem.md
Your AI Security Checklist Has a Version Problem
A practical control for pinning AI security guidance, preserving its source, and reopening reviews when that guidance changes.
open artifact → - voice-agents-need-a-different-reliability-test.md
Voice Agents Need a Different Reliability Test
Voice agent reliability should track intent from capture through action. This six-stage operator framework finds where meaning first breaks.
open artifact → - more-compute-wont-fix-local-computer-use-agents.md
Four Compute Bets for Computer-Use Agents
For computer-use agents, context, steps, decomposition, and parallel plans are different bets. Here is how to test which one earns its cost.
open artifact → - system-prompts-are-product-policy.md
System Prompts Are Product Policy
When a prompt clause changes consequential AI behavior, it needs a release record—not an informal text edit.
open artifact → - more-coding-agents-can-make-the-work-worse.md
More Coding Agents Can Make the Work Worse
When do multiple coding agents help? Use this five-gate test to decide whether parallel work justifies its coordination tax.
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