AI Agents

AI Agents

Tool use, agentic workflows, memory systems, observability, human handoff.

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ARTICLE · 01

Agent Evaluation at Scale

From spot-checks to continuous monitoring.

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ARTICLE · 02

Agent-to-Human Handoff Patterns

When and how to escalate well.

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ARTICLE · 03

Agent Memory Layers Compared

Working, episodic, semantic — what to persist where.

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ARTICLE · 04

Agent Memory Systems

Short-term context vs long-term vector store vs structured memory.

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ARTICLE · 05

Multi-agent debate architecture

Deep-dive on multi-agent debate: two proposers with distinct personas, critic attacks, rebuttal, judge picks winner, cost.

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ARTICLE · 06

Agent checkpointing

Deep-dive on checkpointing long-running agents: write-ahead event logs at step boundaries, snapshot-plus-tail resume, idempotency keys and reconciliat…

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ARTICLE · 07

Context compaction for long-running agents

Deep-dive on context compaction: keeping a long agent session inside the context window by summarizing settled history rather than truncating it. Cove…

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ARTICLE · 08

Context engineering architecture

Deep-dive on context engineering for agents: per-turn token budgets, history windowing and commitment-preserving compaction, tool-result hygiene and a…

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ARTICLE · 09

Agent cost optimization -- controlling the token bill

Deep-dive on agent cost optimization: why agents are token-hungry (loops, growing context), the cost drivers, model routing, context management, promp…

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ARTICLE · 10

Agent Evaluation

How to evaluate agents: task success, tool usage correctness, trajectory analysis, efficiency.

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ARTICLE · 11

Agent Evaluation Architecture in Depth

A 2500-word walkthrough of agent evaluation: task suite, outcome + trajectory, LLM judge, sandbox, adversarial, regression gates, continuous online.

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ARTICLE · 12

Agent evaluator architecture

Deep-dive on agent evaluators: task suite, rubric, judge model, trace scoring, regression gate, calibration, multi-judge.

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ARTICLE · 13

Agent Frameworks

The major agent frameworks and their design philosophies.

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ARTICLE · 14

Agent guardrails

Deep-dive on agent guardrails: input/output/action/budget control points, deterministic vs LLM-based checks, fail modes (block/warn/escalate), defense…

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ARTICLE · 15

Human-in-the-loop -- humans and agents collaborating

Deep-dive on human-in-the-loop agents: approval gates, escalation, review/correction, and confidence-based involvement, interaction patterns (sync/asy…

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ARTICLE · 16

Agent memory architecture

Deep-dive on agent memory: working, episodic, semantic stores, vector retrieval, consolidation, forgetting, privacy, and user controls.

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ARTICLE · 17

Memory Pattern

How agents use short-term (conversation) and long-term (cross-session) memory to be more useful.

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ARTICLE · 18

Multi-Agent Pattern

How multi-agent systems decompose work across specialist agents with a coordinator.

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ARTICLE · 19

Multi-Agent Orchestration Architecture in Depth

A 2500-word walkthrough of multi-agent orchestration: supervisor, workers, shared memory, message bus, budgets, and human-in-the-loop.

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ARTICLE · 20

Agent orchestrator architecture

Deep-dive on agent orchestrator: coordinator, task graph DAG, specialized agents, state store, retries, compensation, budgets.

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ARTICLE · 21

Agent output verification architecture

Deep-dive on verifying agent outputs before acting: structure, grounding, and policy layers; deterministic rules vs LLM-as-judge; the pass/repair/reje…

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ARTICLE · 22

AI Agents Overview

What AI agents are, how they differ from chatbots, and the loop that defines agentic behavior.

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ARTICLE · 23

Agent planner architecture

Deep-dive on agent planner architecture: the reflection loop with state store, memory, guardrails, and observability.

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ARTICLE · 24

Agent planner v2 architecture

Deep-dive on agent planner v2: hierarchical goals, actions, state store, adaptive re-plan, budgets, eval hooks, human handoff.

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ARTICLE · 25

Planning Pattern

How planning agents decompose complex tasks into subtasks before execution, improving reliability.

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ARTICLE · 26

Agent Planning Architecture in Depth

A 2500-word walkthrough of agent planning: task prompt, strategy (ToT/ReAct/Plan-Exec), reflection, replanning, sub-agents, constraint enforcement, st…

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ARTICLE · 27

Agents in Production

The practical concerns of running agents in production: monitoring, safety, cost control, incident response.

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ARTICLE · 28

ReAct -- reasoning and acting interleaved

Deep-dive on the ReAct agent pattern: interleaving reasoning and acting (thought/action/observation), the loop, grounding in real results, adaptivity …

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ARTICLE · 29

ReAct Pattern

How the ReAct pattern (Reasoning + Acting) structures agent loops with explicit thought traces.

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ARTICLE · 30

Reflection Pattern

How reflection loops improve agent output by having a critic evaluate and revise.

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ARTICLE · 31

Agent reflection architecture

Deep-dive on agent reflection: self-critique, verifier tools, revise loop, bounds, convergence, diverse critics, ranking, evaluation.

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ARTICLE · 32

Agent request router architecture

Deep-dive on request routing for agent systems: a cheap classifier that scores intent and difficulty, a routing policy that dispatches to a cheap mode…

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ARTICLE · 33

Agent tool sandboxing -- containing what agents can do

Deep-dive on agent tool sandboxing: the untrusted-agent threat (LLM-driven, prompt-injectable), sandboxing tool execution, isolation levels (process/c…

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ARTICLE · 34

Agent semantic cache architecture

Deep-dive on semantic caching for LLM agents: embedding-based nearest-neighbor lookup, the similarity threshold as the precision/hit-rate dial, scope …

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ARTICLE · 35

Speculative tool execution for agents

Deep-dive on speculative tool execution in LLM agents: predicting the next tool call, running read-only tools eagerly in a sandbox, committing on a ma…

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ARTICLE · 36

Agent state machine architecture

Deep-dive on modeling an LLM agent as an explicit finite state machine: named states (intake, plan, act, observe, verify, respond, escalate, error) wi…

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ARTICLE · 37

Agent task decomposition

Deep-dive on agent task decomposition: a decomposer that plans subtasks and dependencies, a scheduler that releases the ready set and exploits paralle…

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ARTICLE · 38

Agent tool-call recovery architecture

Deep-dive on making agent tool calls robust: an error taxonomy (transient / invalid-input / permanent), idempotency keys for safe replay, exponential …

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ARTICLE · 39

Agent tool schema versioning architecture

Deep-dive on versioning agent tool schemas: why a schema is a prompt not an API contract, immutable versioned registries, compatibility classification…

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ARTICLE · 40

Tool selection architecture

Deep-dive on dynamic tool selection (tool retrieval) for agents whose catalog has grown to hundreds or thousands of tools, where listing them all in t…

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ARTICLE · 41

Agent tool use architecture

Deep-dive on agent tool use: parallel dispatch, streaming, aggregator, error contracts, retries, timeouts, fallback, observability.

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ARTICLE · 42

Tools Pattern

How the tools pattern lets agents call functions to affect the world, and how to design good tools.

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ARTICLE · 43

LangGraph for Agent Orchestration

State machines for multi-step LLM workflows with checkpointing.

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ARTICLE · 44

Multi-Agent Collaboration & Negotiation: Orchestrating Collective Intelligence

Multi-Agent Collaboration & Negotiation: Orchestrating Collective Intelligence

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ARTICLE · 45

Multi-Agent Communication Protocols: The Language of Collaboration

Multi-Agent Communication Protocols: The Language of Collaboration

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ARTICLE · 46

Multi-Agent Systems: What Happens When a 'Developer' LLM Talks to a 'Reviewer' LLM?

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ARTICLE · 47

ReAct Pattern Explained

Reason + Act loops for LLM agents and where they break.

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ARTICLE · 48

ReAct Pattern Revisited

Reasoning + acting in 2026 — what survived.

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ARTICLE · 49

The Rise of 'Thinking' Models: How Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Is Turning LLMs into Logic Engines

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ARTICLE · 50

Tool Calling Best Practices

Designing tool descriptions retry policies and timeout handling.

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ARTICLE · 51

Tool Use Failure Modes

Six ways agents call tools wrong.

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