10Toolbox

A running list of what we think is worth sharing.

Written with agents

These articles capture ideas we thought were worth sharing at a point in time. Our perspective changes as we learn. What we believed in May can look different by August. The toolbox records how our thinking develops.

Written with agents

These articles capture ideas we thought were worth sharing at a point in time. Our perspective changes as we learn. What we believed in May can look different by August. The toolbox records how our thinking develops.

10 articles

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Glossary of terms

Agent

Software that can take a goal, choose the next steps, and use tools to carry them out.

Model

The trained system that reads, reasons, and writes. It is the engine inside the agent.

Prompt

The instructions and context given to the model. Most of the quality comes from what you put in front of it.

Context

Everything the model can see while it works: the request, files, history, rules, and source material.

Token

The small chunks of text a model reads and writes. Length, cost, and memory pressure are counted in tokens.

Tool

A capability the agent can call: read a file, search the web, run code, send a message, or update a record.

Memory

Saved context that carries across sessions, so work starts with the person, business, and rules already in view.

Skill

A reusable way to do one kind of work well, with the steps, standards, and sources already packaged.

Output

A result produced by an agent: an email, invoice, brief, document, build, or decision record.