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%
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Agentic
Multi-step chains, tool use, orchestration, feedback loops
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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
Your Agent Card Is a Prompt: Writing A2A Descriptions That Win Delegation From Other Agents
ADK 1.0 and the A2A protocol turned your agent's metadata into the most important prompt you're not optimizing
Prompt Architecture for Managed Agent Runtimes: What Changes When You Stop Owning the Orchestration Loop
Anthropic's Managed Agents, Google ADK, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 all abstract away the runtime -- your prompts need to catch up
Sub-Agent Delegation Prompts for Claude 4.7's 1M Context: When to Spawn and When to Stay
Stop burning your million-token window on grep output. Prompt patterns that decide what gets delegated.
Agent Handoff Protocols: How to Transfer State Between Specialized Agents Without Context Loss
The structured handoff format that makes multi-agent pipelines actually reliable
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
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