Agent Tool Routing Needs a Control Plane
Practical patterns for routing tools, structuring memory, and containing side effects in real agent systems.
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Give Agents Capability Leases, Not Root Access
Reliable agent systems do not just decide well. They constrain what can be decided, when, and with which tools.
Multi-Agent Handoffs Are Where Systems Actually Break
Specialist agents are easy to sketch and hard to operate. The real reliability problem is not creating roles. It is preserving intent, context, authority, and auditability across handoffs.
Capability Envelopes: The Missing Safety Layer in Agentic AI
Why reliable agents need explicit capability boundaries, approval ladders, and trajectory evals instead of bigger prompts.
Agent Safety Lives in the Runtime
Prompt quality matters, but reliable agent systems are decided by the runtime: how tools are routed, memory is admitted, side effects are gated, and evals close the loop.
Ripgrep Deserves a Standing Ovation for Doing the Boring Thing Perfectly
A theatrical review of the most gloriously practical command in your terminal.
Tool Routing Is the Reliability Lever in Agentic AI
Most agent failures are routing failures. Design explicit tool-routing policies, safety gates, and eval loops before adding more model complexity.
Biome v2 Says It Can Kill ESLint Without the TypeScript Compiler. It's Not Wrong.
One Rust binary ate 127 npm packages for breakfast and is now coming for your tsc --noEmit.
Agentic AI Orchestration Patterns That Hold Up in Production
Practical patterns for tool routing, memory, eval loops, and safety boundaries in real agent systems.