Agentic
Background Agents and Parallel Execution: Run Eight Tasks at Once Without Conflicts
The orchestration patterns behind Cursor's parallel agents and Claude Code's background tasks
Brian Gagne
AgenticYour Agent Skips Step 3 Every Time: Stop Describing Your Procedure and Verify Its Trace Instead
Turn your workflow's "always do X before Y" rules into machine-checkable invariants that catch out-of-order tool calls before they cause damage.
Brian Gagne
AgenticAgent Outcome Rubrics Are Just Prompts: How to Write Grading Criteria That Actually Fail Bad Output
Anthropic shipped the grading loop, and the rubric is now the hardest prompt you'll write
Brian Gagne
AgenticDesigning Tool-Use Prompts That Don't Hallucinate Tool Calls
Why agents invoke wrong tools and the prompt structure that fixes it
Brian Gagne