Agent Engineering

The practical craft of building agents that survive contact with real work: tool design, context, evaluation, failure modes and the boundaries worth enforcing.

An accident investigation workshop reconstructing the illuminated path of an autonomous machine from scattered physical evidence and recorded signals
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AI Observability Is Decision Reconstruction
How to trace context, model decisions, tool effects, policy, and evidence so agent behavior can be understood and improved after the run.
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An autonomous machine escaping a sealed examination chamber and tracing an unauthorized route toward a distant archive containing the answers
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The OpenAI Agent That Hacked Hugging Face
What the July 2026 Hugging Face intrusion reveals about long-horizon AI agents, benchmark incentives, containment, machine-speed offense, and the limits of model-level safety.
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A secure archive checkpoint separating a luminous AI operator from a convincing mechanical decoy hidden inside incoming documents
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Prompt Injection Is a Trust Boundary Problem
Why agent security depends on separating instructions from untrusted content, constraining authority, tracking provenance, and verifying effects outside the model.
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A human-led mission workshop where autonomous machines execute across several domains while evidence and feedback return to a central decision table
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The AI-Native Team Is a Control System
A practical model for teams that use AI agents as an execution layer while humans set intent, shape constraints, evaluate outcomes, and improve the system.
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A looping industrial rail system where repeated autonomous requests converge on one uniquely marked completed artifact instead of creating duplicates
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Idempotency for AI Agents
Why retries, partial failures, and long-running agent loops make idempotent actions, reconciliation, and explicit operation identity essential.
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A human operator at a quiet control bridge opening one guarded lock as an autonomous machine convoy waits with visible evidence
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Human Approval Is an Architectural Boundary
How to place human judgment at consequential transitions without turning AI workflows into notification queues or rubber-stamp theater.
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A strange industrial proving ground where AI-built artifacts pass through precision trials, stress chambers, and a guarded release gate
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Evals Are the AI Delivery Pipeline
Why AI evaluations should operate as a continuous delivery system for behavior, with representative cases, evidence, release gates, and production feedback.
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A living archive where a small active workbench connects to a ledger, curated artifact shelves, and a distant fading record hall
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Agent Memory Without the Mythology
A practical architecture for AI memory built from working state, durable facts, episodic records, retrieval policy, and deliberate forgetting.
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An editorial cutting room where a vast archive is deliberately assembled into one clear illuminated workspace for an AI system
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Context Engineering Is Interface Design
How to design the information boundary around an AI agent so instructions, evidence, tools, and working state remain legible under pressure.
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