Tag: agents
All the articles with the tag "agents".
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A knowledge base is a graph, not a folder
An agent knew the manual's minimum radius cold and still got the curve wrong, because the number was only the start of the question. Why a domain agent reasons better from a graph of criteria than from a persona prompt, and what that structure caught in real road-geometry and brand reviews.
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You can't measure a memory hook by the times it spoke
I tagged sixty hook activations, concluded retrieval was fine, and wrote down a verdict. Then I measured the prompts where the hook said nothing at all, and the number flipped.
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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.