agent-design

From the author

Scope an agent or subagent before it is built — the one job it owns, the smallest tool set that closes that job, what it must never do, and the evidence it has to return. Use when adding an agent, subagent or automated role to a system, when deciding which tools it gets, when an existing agent loops, over-reaches or reports work it did not do, or when reviewing someone else's agent design. Not for wording the prompt itself, not for deciding what occupies its context window, and it never grants an agent permission it did not already have.