Using agents
What these tools actually are, how to brief them, and when to stop using one.
- What an agent actually isLevel 1 · 6 min — The difference between a chatbot, a tool, and an agent — and why the distinction decides what you can delegate.
- Prompts that survive contact with realityLevel 2 · 7 min — Why constraint beats encouragement, with the four-part structure behind every prompt in our library.
- Choosing an assistant without reading a benchmarkLevel 1 · 7 min — The three properties that decide which one you open daily, and why every leaderboard is the wrong input.
- Giving an agent context, in the right orderLevel 2 · 8 min — Files, docs, tools, and history — what to hand over, what to withhold, and why more context can make output worse.
- When not to use an agentLevel 2 · 6 min — The delegation test in full: reversible, verifiable, and describable. Fail any of the three and you want a script or a human.