Agent Evaluation: Task Success, Cost, Latency Agent systems can look impressive in a demo while failing quietly in production. The gap is not only model quality. It is evaluation discipline. A deployed agent is a workflow engine that reads, plans, calls tools, and produces outcomes under constraints. Evaluating an agent means evaluating the workflow, not […]

Agent Handoff Design: Clarity of Responsibility Handoffs are where agent systems either become trustworthy infrastructure or become a source of quiet risk. A handoff happens whenever responsibility moves from one actor to another: from agent to human, from agent to another service, from agent to a different role, or from one stage of a workflow […]

Memory Systems: Short-Term, Long-Term, Episodic, Semantic Memory is the difference between an agent that answers questions and an agent that can carry work across time. It is also the difference between a system that quietly accumulates risk and a system that stays accountable. “Memory” is not a single feature. It is a set of storage […]

Planning Patterns: Decomposition, Checklists, Loops An agent that takes action without a plan is fast until it is wrong. An agent that plans without acting is safe until it is useless. The practical craft is not “planning” as a philosophical concept, but planning as a set of patterns that keep multi-step work inside budgets while […]