Your Agent's 'Done' Is a Lie: Gate Completion on Disk Evidence, Not Its Final Message
Steal the validation-gated completion pattern from this week's Paper-replication skill and make every agent attach a receipt before it stops.
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Agentic
Multi-step chains, tool use, orchestration, feedback loops
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Your Agent's Planner Is Fine. Its Aggregator Is What's Broken
ROMA hit state-of-the-art on SealQA by compressing every subtask tree before it bubbles up. Here are the four node prompts you can copy without adopting the framework.
Your Agent Reads the Transcript Twice: Stop Piping Tool Outputs Through Context and Filter Them in Code
The 'response bloat' tax quietly doubles your token bill. Here's the prompt pattern that keeps raw tool payloads out of the model's working memory.
Stop Prompting Your Agent. Engineer the Loop That Prompts It
The four standing prompts behind Boris Cherny's "loop engineering" -- find-work, do-work, verify, remember -- with copy-paste scaffolds and the guardrails that keep them from running rogue.
Your Agent Should Write Python, Not Emit JSON: Prompting for CodeAct Now That It Ships in Microsoft Agent Framework
BUILD 2026 made code-as-action a first-class pattern. Here's how to rewrite your tool-use prompts from "pick a tool" to "write code that calls the tools" and cut tokens 30-50%.
Stop Writing Supervisors, Write Handoffs: The Three-Sentence Prompt That Lets One Agent Surrender Control Without Losing the Thread
Microsoft's new Handoff orchestration pattern proves the routing decision isn't architecture, it's a prompt. Here's how to write it so your agents don't deadlock or drop context.
Speculative Planning Prompts: How to Make Your Agents Pre-Plan During Tool Call Idle Time
The IdleSpec technique turns dead wait time into planning cycles that cut agent task completion by 40%
Gemini Spark Skills Are Just Trigger-Condition Prompts: How to Write Always-On Agent Instructions That Don't Go Rogue
The prompting discipline for persistent background agents is fundamentally different from chat -- here's the pattern that keeps autonomous actions safe and useful.
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