CoursesAgent Harnesses in Practice

Skills and Procedures

Three kinds of remembered text and when each loads, the skills an agent writes for itself and the approval that gates them, and the skill hubs that turn a procedure into a dependency.

Lessons
5
Exercises
29
Minutes
32

Start Rule, Procedure, or Fact

  1. 1

    Rule, Procedure, or Fact

    After this lesson you can sort a line of remembered text into rule, procedure or fact, say when each loads, and read a harness's lookup order.

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    5 exercises
    5 min
  2. 2

    Skills the Agent Writes

    After this lesson you can say why an agent-written procedure compounds, what the approval setting stages, and find the step in a pending skill that must not be approved as written.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  3. 3

    A Skill Is Supply Chain

    After this lesson you can name what installing a hub skill really does, read the three things that decide an install, and reject a skill the scanner passed.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  4. 4

    Checkpoint: Skills and ProceduresCheckpoint

    Rule, procedure and fact, the approval gate, progressive disclosure and hub skills, in fresh situations.

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    6 exercises
    6 min
  5. 5

    Boss: Grow a Skill LibraryBoss

    Let the agent grow a skill library without losing control. Halden's five engineers share one agent with bash. Ines sets the approval gate, reads the first pending skills, catches the step that must stay human, trims AGENTS.md, rejects a hub skill, orders the review, decides what is recorded, and hands off.

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    8 exercises
    9 min