Agentic Systems and Tooling

How agents use tools, maintain state, recover from failures, and fit into larger software systems. The focus is on what it takes to move beyond a convincing demo.

September 20, 2026

Building Tools for Agents: What Makes a Good Tool Interface?

Agent tools are interfaces for probabilistic callers. Good ones constrain interpretation, enforce authority and report outcomes clearly enough for agents and operators to act safely.

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September 15, 2026

The Agent Is Not the Architecture: Designing Reliable Systems Around LLM Agents

An LLM agent can decide correctly and still leave the system in the wrong state. Reliable architecture controls side effects and safely recovers from retries, restarts, delayed approvals, and uncertainty.

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