The engineering notebook.

7 articles

• Context engineering
  5 min read

  Build Retrieval That Can Explain Its Sources

  Design retrieval around authorized evidence, stable document revisions, useful context, and claim-level provenance instead of a larger context window.

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• Architecture decisions
  5 min read

  Choose a Workflow Before You Choose an Agent

  Match autonomy to the actual uncertainty in a task, with a practical decision process for workflows, bounded agents, and human escalation.

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• Tool engineering
  5 min read

  Design Tool Contracts an Agent Can Use Correctly

  Make tools discoverable, narrow, and recoverable with explicit schemas, authorization boundaries, useful results, and honest failure semantics.

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• Agent architecture
  16 min read

  Deterministic Patterns for Agentic Applications: A Practical Guide

  Build reliable agent systems with validated proposals, pure state transitions, durable observations, scoped approvals, and transactional execution intents.

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• Workflow engineering
  5 min read

  Make Retries Safe Before You Automate More

  Design operation identities, retry budgets, and reconciliation paths that prevent an interrupted request from becoming duplicate work.

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• Operations
  5 min read

  Observe Agent Runs and Enforce Useful Budgets

  Trace the complete task, separate waiting from work, and enforce cost and latency limits without losing track of uncertain side effects.

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• Agent architecture
  5 min read

  Put Approval at the Point of Commitment

  Bind human approval to a concrete action, authenticated identity, and resource version so execution still matches what was reviewed.

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