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An Agent That Can't Forget Is Worse Than One With No Memory

An Agent That Can't Forget Is Worse Than One With No Memory

A rules file is write-once and rots; auto-memory saves corrections but on its own judgment, in its own store. Add the human-gated curation layer the vendors leave open: a command that counts corrections and proposes durable edits, a hook that resolves conflicts, so corrections compound instead of contradicting.

A Second Opinion It Didn't Write

A Second Opinion It Didn't Write

An agent reviewing its own plan shares its own blind spots. Wire a different vendor's model in as a deterministic gate, and a fail verdict re-engages planning before a line of code exists.

A Skill That Writes Your Skills

A Skill That Writes Your Skills

Your debugging ability isn't intelligence, it's a procedure — and procedures are exactly what you can write down once and hand to an agent. Bootstrap the whole library with a meta-skill.

By the time you're reviewing the diff, the destructive call already ran.

By the time you're reviewing the diff, the destructive call already ran.

Reviewing irreversible actions after the fact is too late. Split tools by reversibility in permissions, force a plan, and gate the destructive step behind a human interrupt — autonomy on reads, a hard stop on anything you can't undo.

Build the Glossary the Agent Wrote

Build the Glossary the Agent Wrote

Vague prompting isn't a skill gap you fix by writing longer prompts. It's a missing shared vocabulary — and the fix is a committed glossary, not a personal habit.

Cache the Explore

Cache the Explore

The codebase is the strongest steering signal you have — stronger than your prompt or your rules. So pay the exploration cost once, freeze it into a file, and feed it to every run.

Commission the Skill, Don't Write It

Commission the Skill, Don't Write It

You don't author a skill from a blank page. You send a subagent to research the problem once, and the research becomes the skill — a build artifact, not a document.