Tag: agents

All the articles with the tag "agents".

• Seven ways a check goes green without checking

  19 Aug, 2026

  I moved 177 entries out of an index and the consistency check went green without looking at any of them. Over nineteen days I collected twenty-four of these across modules that never met, and they sort into seven structurally different reasons a check cannot produce a red result.

• A knowledge base is a graph, not a folder

  27 Jul, 2026

  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.

• You can't measure a memory hook by the times it spoke

  20 Jul, 2026

  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.

• The optimization you wrote isn't the one that runs

  19 Jun, 2026

  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.