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
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Your 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.
Agent Outcome Rubrics Are Just Prompts: How to Write Grading Criteria That Actually Fail Bad Output
Anthropic shipped the grading loop -- the rubric is now the hardest prompt you'll write
Designing Tool-Use Prompts That Don't Hallucinate Tool Calls
Why agents invoke wrong tools and the prompt structure that fixes it