Operating Agents I: Action Systems and Tool Use
The action chapter of Operating Agents, covering tool use, action surfaces, and the boundary between describing work and performing it.
Series
7 mirrored posts in publication order.
The action chapter of Operating Agents, covering tool use, action surfaces, and the boundary between describing work and performing it.
The memory chapter of Operating Agents, focused on memory layers, authority, retention policy, and evaluation.
The reasoning chapter of Operating Agents, covering scaffolds, planning, decomposition, and failure diagnosis.
The multi-agent chapter of Operating Agents, focused on handoffs, transport, and when a second agent is actually justified.
The safety chapter of Operating Agents, covering trust boundaries, attack surfaces, and architectural containment.
The optimization and evaluation bonus chapter of Operating Agents, focused on workflow optimization, measurement, and bounded self-improvement.
The framing note for the Operating Agents course, introducing the chapter structure, blueprints, companions, and builder-first doctrine.