Design the failure paths before the agent demo
Use explicit task states, bounded retries, effect-aware recovery, and useful human handoffs to keep agent workflows understandable when execution goes wrong.
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Work in progress. Thoughts along the way.
Engineering decisions, ideas to revisit, and observations beyond the working day.
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Keep a one-page record of important decisions
Record the problem, authority, evidence, alternatives, and accepted tradeoffs so that later reviews can examine reasoning as well as outcomes.
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