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Agent Architecture
Planning and Execution
Architecting Agent-Based Systems
Memory and Selective Recall
Building the Complete Agent
Building Systems That Distrust Their Models
Advanced Agents From First Principles 23: Your Infrastructure Is Healthy. Why Is the Agent Getting Worse? Detect Behavioral Drift and Roll Back Safely
Advanced Agents From First Principles 21: What Happens When Too Many Agents Compete for the Same Resources? Add Admission Control, Quotas and Backpressure
Advanced Agents From First Principles 20: Can Your Agent Coordinate Across Machines Without Duplicating Work? Use Leases, Idempotency and Fencing
Advanced Agents From First Principles 19: Can Your Agent Explore in Parallel Without Creating Chaos? Use Speculative Execution and Early Cancellation
Advanced Agents From First Principles 18: What Should Your Agent Observe Next? Use Expected Value of Information
Advanced Agents From First Principles 17: What Is Your Agent Actually Uncertain About?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 16: Where Should an Agent Spend Its Compute? Build a Dynamic Budget Scheduler
Advanced Agents From First Principles 15: How Do You Optimize an Agent Policy Without Turning It Into Another Black Box?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 14: Can Your Agent Learn From Its Own Trajectories Without Learning the Wrong Lessons?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 13: How Do You Debug an Agent That Made the Wrong Decision? Add Trajectory Observability
Advanced Agents From First Principles 11: Which Advanced Agent Architecture Should You Use? A Practical Selection Guide
Advanced Agents From First Principles 29: When Should an Agent Stop and Ask a Human? Design Authority Boundaries and Escalation
Advanced Agents From First Principles 32: Which Capabilities Are Actually Worth Building? Design a Capability Portfolio
Advanced Agents From First Principles 33: Which Shared Components Actually Unlock More Capability? Build a Capability Dependency Graph
Advanced Agents From First Principles 34: Where Should This Task Actually Run? Build Capability-Aware Placement Across Models, Providers and Resource Pools
Advanced Agents From First Principles 38: A Plan Is Not a Commitment — Model Goals, Commitments and Executable Work
Advanced Agents From First Principles 42: How Do Multiple Agents Coordinate Without Becoming a Distributed Argument?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 43: Who Controls the Agent? Build an Explicit Agent Control Plane
Advanced Agents From First Principles 10: Are You Combining Every Agent Technique Into One Monster? Build a Mixture-of-Agents Runtime
Advanced Agents From First Principles 09: Can Your Agent Actually Learn From Previous Runs?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 00: When Should You Use an Advanced Agent Architecture?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 07: Do Your Agents Agree Too Easily? Use Adversarial Review and Multi-Agent Debate Without Confusing Debate With Truth
A Memory Gate for AI: Policy-Bounded Acceptance in the Executable Cognitive Kernel
Intelligence Through Execution: The Executable Cognitive Kernel
Self-Improving AI: A System That Learns, Validates, and Retrains Itself
Thoughts of Algorithms
Document Intelligence: Turning Documents into Structured Knowledge
Learning to Learn: A LATS-Based Framework for Self-Aware AI Pipelines
Programming Intelligence: Using Symbolic Rules to Steer and Evolve AI
Adaptive Reasoning with ARM: Teaching AI the Right Way to Think