Tag: agents
All the articles with the tag "agents".
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A knowledge base is a graph, not a folder
Turning a manual into an agent's knowledge base isn't converting it to text — that flattens the thing that mattered. The power comes from the graph: the criteria that condition each other. How we built ours, what it caught, and the bench of specialized agents it produced.
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The optimization you wrote isn't the one that runs
I had the optimization written and approved, and a week later it still wasn't what ran. The fix wasn't a better design. It was making the trigger deterministic and leaving the judgment to the model.
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Give the agent the real source of truth
An AI setup I call MARCO placed 26 drainage culverts into our road-design software from a one-column list. The speed wasn't the interesting part. What mattered was finding which file held the real toe of the slope, and turning the fix into a reusable skill.
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Anatomy of a four-minute boot
Where my Claude Code sessions actually spent their first four minutes, and what cut it to thirty seconds without losing any context. Hooks were three seconds of the problem. The model's diligence was the rest.