Posts tagged tooling

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Methodology
Why an agent tool should surface the decision, not make it
July 5, 2026 · 5 min read
In one working session I designed a read-only advisor and spent the rest of it being the customer of another. Both ran on the same short discipline: surface the decision and never seize it, verify before you assert, pilot before you fan…
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Methodology
Leverage by subtraction: keeping an AI agent fleet small enough to maintain
June 29, 2026 · 5 min read
The instinct with agentic tooling is to add: more agents, more skills, more clever prompts. The leverage runs the other way. Here is the test I use to decide whether a piece of work should be a script, a hook, a skill, or an agent, and w…
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Why an agent tool should surface the decision, not make it