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Context should follow the decision.
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Context should follow the decision.
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Context should follow the decision.
Missed trigger, stale memory, false source and opaque effect.
Count interventions, misses, holds and accepted cases.
My rule: Retire roles that become bureaucracy.
#EricFieldNotes
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Domain roles, durable memory, retrieval and service permissions can form a useful workflow. A specialist raises the current exception at cutover; the host verifies it; the service enforces authority; a person owns unresolved policy.
Do not collapse these into agent accuracy. Test delivery, invalidation, source binding, case scope and target readback separately. A message protocol moves claims; it does not decide their truth.
Compare a role-based path with improved retrieval and a simpler deterministic gate on the same protected cases. Include reviewer attention, maintenance and recovery. Re-evaluate after policy, model or source changes.
Do that because the objective is a better decision, not an agent org chart. Inject current sourced facts at consequential boundaries, enforce in the service and remove any extra layer that cannot earn its cost.
#EricFieldNotes
Four-beat scene transcript
1. Context should follow the decision.
Domain roles, durable memory, retrieval and service permissions can form a useful workflow. A specialist raises the current exception at cutover; the host verifies it; the service enforces authority; a person owns unresolved policy.
Visual: Not every worker needs every organization's history.
2. Each layer has a failure mode.
Do not collapse these into agent accuracy. Test delivery, invalidation, source binding, case scope and target readback separately. A message protocol moves claims; it does not decide their truth.
Visual: Missed trigger, stale memory, false source and opaque effect.
3. Make the operating loop measurable.
Compare a role-based path with improved retrieval and a simpler deterministic gate on the same protected cases. Include reviewer attention, maintenance and recovery. Re-evaluate after policy, model or source changes.
Visual: Count interventions, misses, holds and accepted cases.
4. Keep a clear exit path.
Do that because the objective is a better decision, not an agent org chart. Inject current sourced facts at consequential boundaries, enforce in the service and remove any extra layer that cannot earn its cost.
Visual: Retire roles that become bureaucracy.
Research and claim limits
- LongMemEval, ICLR 2025 (S206)
- OpenAI Agents SDK handoffs (S207)
- Agent2Agent protocol specification (S211)
The examples identified as illustrative or simulated are design probes, not reported incidents. Vendor specifications do not establish workload performance.