Apr 9, 2026 •6 min
Prompting Parallel Coding Agents: Task Decomposition That Actually Ships
How to write prompts for Cursor 3 background agents and Claude Code subagents that run concurrently without stepping on each other
Brian Gagne
CTO of Kief Studio. 20+ years technology consulting. Cisco Certified Ethical Hacker, UPenn AI for Business, Perplexity AI Business Fellow. Builds the tools Qurtoo teaches you to use.
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Apr 8, 2026 •6 min
Red Teaming Your AI Agents With Prompt Chains Before Attackers Do
Multi-turn jailbreaks hit 97% success rates -- here are the exact prompt sequences to stress-test your agentic workflows
Mar 29, 2026 •7 min
Red-Teaming Your Own AI App: A Prompt Injection Test Suite You Can Run Today
40 injection payloads organized by attack class with expected-vs-actual output scoring
Mar 29, 2026 •6 min
Agent Handoff Protocols: How to Transfer State Between Specialized Agents Without Context Loss
The structured handoff format that makes multi-agent pipelines actually reliable
Mar 29, 2026 •7 min
Building Retry Logic Into Agent Prompts: Self-Healing Workflows That Don't Need Human Intervention
Teach your agent to detect its own failures, diagnose the cause, and try a different approach
Mar 29, 2026 •6 min
Tool-Use Prompt Design That Prevents Hallucinated Function Calls in Production
Why your agent invents tools that don't exist and the three-line fix that stops it
Mar 29, 2026 •7 min
The Supervisor-Worker Agent Pattern: One Smart Model Plans, Cheap Models Execute
How to architect multi-agent systems that cost 90% less than running Opus on everything
Mar 29, 2026 •6 min
Context Engineering for Agents: Manage What Your LLM Sees Across 50 Turns Without Losing the Thread
The 2026 skill that replaced prompt engineering as the bottleneck for agentic systems
Mar 28, 2026 •6 min
Prompt Decomposition: Break One Complex Prompt Into Five Simple Ones and Get Better Results for Less Money
The cost and quality math behind splitting monolithic prompts into chains
Mar 28, 2026 •6 min
Persona Stacking: Layer Multiple Roles in One System Prompt for Expert-Level Output
Why 'You are a senior engineer who also reviews for security' beats single-role prompts
Mar 28, 2026 •6 min
Meta-Prompting: Write Prompts That Generate Better Prompts Than You Can
Use frontier models to improve their own instructions with measurable improvement loops
Mar 28, 2026 •5 min
The Negative Prompt Pattern: Tell the LLM What NOT to Do and Watch Quality Jump
Why exclusion constraints are more effective than inclusion instructions for complex tasks