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Skills Are Dependencies Now
Treat third-party agent skills like executable dependencies by pinning, auditing, reviewing updates, and constraining their permissions.
Your Verifier Can't See What Compaction Deleted
Verify against artifacts outside the compacted transcript so review does not inherit the omissions of lossy context compression.
Your Agent Harness Is an Unpinned Dependency
Treat auto-updating harnesses, model aliases, and vendor defaults as mutable dependencies whose behavior must be pinned or continuously verified.
Agent Teams Solves the Spawning. The Session Boundary Is Still Yours.
Separate convenient in-session teamwork from the durable queue, state, and recovery machinery that must survive after the session ends.
Context Debt: The Metric Nobody's Measuring in Multi-Agent Systems
Bound and prune instruction files before accumulated incident rules become stale state that confidently misleads every agent that loads them.
Parallelism Is Free, Coordination Is Not: The Single-Writer Gate for Background Agents
Protect shared mutable resources with a single-writer gate enforced where parallel agents are spawned, not in their individual prompts.
The Bugs You Can't Unit-Test: What Breaks After Months of Uptime
Identify failures caused by elapsed time and repetition, then pair each one with an operational primitive that a short test suite cannot provide.
Chat Is a Bad Retry Protocol for Agents
Move retry state out of conversation and into structured tasks with bounded attempts, isolated failure, and explicit terminal states.
Loop Engineering in Production: A Loop Without a Circuit Breaker Is a Retry Storm
Design stopping conditions, budgets, and stall detection before a productive loop multiplies the wrong behavior.
The Viral CLAUDE.md Rules, After 4 Months in Production
Test popular instruction-file advice against production and identify which rules need tool-level enforcement to hold.
Vibe Coding vs Agentic Coding: They're Not the Same Job
Choose exploratory human-reviewed work or production agent discipline based on who exercises judgment after the code is generated.
Keep Your Agent From Becoming PR Spam
Keep autonomous contributions useful with outbound action budgets and quality gates enforced below the prompt.
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