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12 Engineering Principles for Agents

Principles

    Natural language to tool calls

    Own your prompts

    Own your context window

    Tools are just structured outputs

    Unify execution state and business state

    Launch/Pause/Resume with simple APIs

    Contact humans with tool calls

    Own your control flow

    Compact errors into context window

    Small, focused agents

    Trigger from anywhere, meet users where they are

    Make your agent a stateless reducer


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