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Context vs. Graphs, clearly explained! context engineering is great, but it has a ceiling: you can make one window perfect. there is still only one of it. every technique on that layer is rationing the same scarce thing. compact, retrieve less, delete, defer. all of it is deciding what...

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Orchestrators vs. Graphs, clearly explained! orchestrators are great, and everyone builds one first. here is the ceiling: an orchestrator sits above the work and routes every message. five agents report to it. it reads all five. it decides what each one does next, and reads all five replies. that is ten trips through one context, and by the fifth agent that context has read four reports, five instructions and its own reasoning about all of them. Graph engineering fixes this by removing the seat: not a better router, but no router at all. you need both, and here is the sentence that resolves the whole confusion: an orchestrator sits above the work and holds all of it. a graph is the shape of the work, and holds none of it. ↳ above the work: one context that has to see everything before anything ships ↳ inside the work: a splitter that hands out and lets go, and a merge that reads nothing Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs the coordination did not disappear. it moved into the edges, where it costs nothing and cannot get tired. the trick is noticing what you actually built. if one node has to see every result before the run can finish, you did not remove the bottleneck. you hired it, gave it the longest context in the system, and made it the thing you were counting on to stay sharp. one thing to know before you scale it. an orchestrator degrades in the one way nothing catches. ↳ it does not crash, time out or return an error. it stays up and keeps routing ↳ it just starts routing worse, somewhere around the fifth report, and every downstream agent does exactly what it was told that last one catches careful people. you can have perfect isolation on every worker and still have one window quietly drifting at the top, and the traces will all look clean because each worker did its job. and the one that eats whole nights: the merge is where this shows up first. ranking five findings is not judgment, it is a sort. if a model is doing it, you are paying a model to read five reports so it can put them in an order that three lines of code would have got right, and now that model has read everything too. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓

Hanako

44,226 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

context engineering vs graph engineering. every few months the list gets a new word and everyone treats it as a replacement for the last one. these two are not on the same list. one decides what the model sees this turn, the other decides what exists at all. the cleanest way to tell them apart is to ask what a single unit of work looks like. > context engineering is the window the window opens empty, every single time. you assemble what goes in it. the prompt, the docs, the history, the tool results. the assembling is the work. the window only grows. it never shrinks on its own, so eventually something gets dropped. usually from the middle. usually without telling you. then the turn ends and the window is thrown away. not archived, thrown away. the next turn opens empty again and you re-explain what you already explained. good context engineering is knowing what to leave out, not what to pack in. the unit of work is one window. > graph engineering is the structure the same material arrives from the same sources. instead of packing it into a window, you pull entities out of it, resolve the duplicates into one node, and write typed edges between them. nothing here is stored as text you hope to find again. it is stored as a thing with a name and its connections to other things. when the turn ends, the graph is still there. the next turn does not start from zero. it starts by querying what already exists, and the query walks edges instead of guessing at similarity. good graph engineering is deciding what counts as the same thing twice. the unit of work is one relationship. > they are not alternatives the graph is what refills the window. context engineering decides what fits. graph engineering decides what there is to choose from. remove the graph and every session starts blind. remove the context work and the best structure in the world arrives as an unreadable dump. that also tells you which one broke. the answer drifted from what you actually said, or forgot something from this same session. that is the window. the answer is coherent but invents a connection that does not exist, or cannot join two facts it has clearly seen. that is the structure. people debug the prompt because the prompt is the easiest thing to edit. it keeps taking the blame for failures that live a layer down. save this - then read the full breakdown below
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context engineering vs graph engineering. every few months the list gets a new word and everyone treats it as a replacement for the last one. these two are not on the same list. one decides what the model sees this turn, the other decides what exists at all. the cleanest way to tell them apart is to ask what a single unit of work looks like. > context engineering is the window the window opens empty, every single time. you assemble what goes in it. the prompt, the docs, the history, the tool results. the assembling is the work. the window only grows. it never shrinks on its own, so eventually something gets dropped. usually from the middle. usually without telling you. then the turn ends and the window is thrown away. not archived, thrown away. the next turn opens empty again and you re-explain what you already explained. good context engineering is knowing what to leave out, not what to pack in. the unit of work is one window. > graph engineering is the structure the same material arrives from the same sources. instead of packing it into a window, you pull entities out of it, resolve the duplicates into one node, and write typed edges between them. nothing here is stored as text you hope to find again. it is stored as a thing with a name and its connections to other things. when the turn ends, the graph is still there. the next turn does not start from zero. it starts by querying what already exists, and the query walks edges instead of guessing at similarity. good graph engineering is deciding what counts as the same thing twice. the unit of work is one relationship. > they are not alternatives the graph is what refills the window. context engineering decides what fits. graph engineering decides what there is to choose from. remove the graph and every session starts blind. remove the context work and the best structure in the world arrives as an unreadable dump. that also tells you which one broke. the answer drifted from what you actually said, or forgot something from this same session. that is the window. the answer is coherent but invents a connection that does not exist, or cannot join two facts it has clearly seen. that is the structure. people debug the prompt because the prompt is the easiest thing to edit. it keeps taking the blame for failures that live a layer down. save this - then read the full breakdown below

Hanako

19,160 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Loops vs. Graphs, clearly explained! loops are great, and the ceiling is one you can watch turn: a loop is a gear. it produces, checks, corrects, and comes back around. after six turns you have one job, done very well. after six hundred turns you still have one job, done very well. the teeth are perfect. they are touching nothing. Graph engineering fixes this by moving the decision up a layer: not how well one gear turns, but what it is meshed into. you need both, and here is the sentence that resolves the whole confusion: the loop lives inside a node. the graph lives between them. ↳ inside one unit: produce, check, correct, repeat until green ↳ between units: split, fan out, merge, gate, send back Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs the loop does not go away when you build a graph. it moves inside, and now there are three of them turning at once on three things you would never have thought to run. the trick is being selective about what becomes a node. only spend a model where judgment lives. merging, ranking, deduping and schema checks are edges, and edges are code. free, instant, and they cannot be argued out of a verdict. one thing to know before you scale it. a loop that cannot fail is not a loop, it is a repeat with a bill attached. ↳ the test suite exits 0 is a check. the diff touches only the files in the plan is a check ↳ the output looks good, the model says it is confident, no errors were raised, none of those are checks that last one catches careful people. absence of an error is not evidence of correctness, and a loop built on it will confidently repeat a mistake until the budget runs out, with a clean log the whole way. and the one that eats whole nights: when a unit fails, return that unit, not the batch. send back four slices because one failed and you have just rewritten three correct ones. do it twice in a run and the run never converges. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓
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Loops vs. Graphs, clearly explained! loops are great, and the ceiling is one you can watch turn: a loop is a gear. it produces, checks, corrects, and comes back around. after six turns you have one job, done very well. after six hundred turns you still have one job, done very well. the teeth are perfect. they are touching nothing. Graph engineering fixes this by moving the decision up a layer: not how well one gear turns, but what it is meshed into. you need both, and here is the sentence that resolves the whole confusion: the loop lives inside a node. the graph lives between them. ↳ inside one unit: produce, check, correct, repeat until green ↳ between units: split, fan out, merge, gate, send back Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs the loop does not go away when you build a graph. it moves inside, and now there are three of them turning at once on three things you would never have thought to run. the trick is being selective about what becomes a node. only spend a model where judgment lives. merging, ranking, deduping and schema checks are edges, and edges are code. free, instant, and they cannot be argued out of a verdict. one thing to know before you scale it. a loop that cannot fail is not a loop, it is a repeat with a bill attached. ↳ the test suite exits 0 is a check. the diff touches only the files in the plan is a check ↳ the output looks good, the model says it is confident, no errors were raised, none of those are checks that last one catches careful people. absence of an error is not evidence of correctness, and a loop built on it will confidently repeat a mistake until the budget runs out, with a clean log the whole way. and the one that eats whole nights: when a unit fails, return that unit, not the batch. send back four slices because one failed and you have just rewritten three correct ones. do it twice in a run and the run never converges. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓

Hanako

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Loops vs. Graphs, clearly explained! loops are great, and they have a ceiling you can watch happen: a loop goes around. it produces, checks, corrects, and goes around again. after six passes you have one job, done very well. after six hundred passes you still have one job, done very well. Graph engineering fixes this by moving the decision up a layer: not how well one job gets done, but which jobs exist to be done at all. you need both, and here is the sentence that resolves the whole confusion: the loop lives inside a node. the graph lives between them. ↳ inside one unit: produce, check, correct, repeat until green ↳ between units: split, fan out, merge, gate, send back Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs the loop does not go away when you build a graph. it moves inside, and now there are three of them running at once on three things you would never have thought to run. the trick is being selective about what becomes a node. only spend a model where judgment lives. merging, ranking, deduping and schema checks are edges, and edges are code. free, instant, and they cannot be argued out of a verdict. one thing to know before you scale it. a loop that cannot fail is not a loop, it is a repeat with a bill attached. and the check people write is almost always the wrong kind. ↳ the test suite exits 0 is a check. the diff touches only the files in the plan is a check ↳ the output looks good, the model says it is confident, no errors were raised, none of those are checks that last one catches careful people. absence of an error is not evidence of correctness, and a loop built on it will confidently repeat a mistake until the budget runs out, with a clean log the whole way. and the one that eats whole nights: when a unit fails, return that unit, not the batch. send back four slices because one failed and you have just rewritten three correct ones. do it twice in a run and the run never converges. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓
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Loops vs. Graphs, clearly explained! loops are great, and they have a ceiling you can watch happen: a loop goes around. it produces, checks, corrects, and goes around again. after six passes you have one job, done very well. after six hundred passes you still have one job, done very well. Graph engineering fixes this by moving the decision up a layer: not how well one job gets done, but which jobs exist to be done at all. you need both, and here is the sentence that resolves the whole confusion: the loop lives inside a node. the graph lives between them. ↳ inside one unit: produce, check, correct, repeat until green ↳ between units: split, fan out, merge, gate, send back Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs the loop does not go away when you build a graph. it moves inside, and now there are three of them running at once on three things you would never have thought to run. the trick is being selective about what becomes a node. only spend a model where judgment lives. merging, ranking, deduping and schema checks are edges, and edges are code. free, instant, and they cannot be argued out of a verdict. one thing to know before you scale it. a loop that cannot fail is not a loop, it is a repeat with a bill attached. and the check people write is almost always the wrong kind. ↳ the test suite exits 0 is a check. the diff touches only the files in the plan is a check ↳ the output looks good, the model says it is confident, no errors were raised, none of those are checks that last one catches careful people. absence of an error is not evidence of correctness, and a loop built on it will confidently repeat a mistake until the budget runs out, with a clean log the whole way. and the one that eats whole nights: when a unit fails, return that unit, not the batch. send back four slices because one failed and you have just rewritten three correct ones. do it twice in a run and the run never converges. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓

Hanako

129,105 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Workflows vs. Graphs, clearly explained! workflows are great, and almost everyone has one. here is the ceiling: a workflow decides every step before it runs. you drew eight boxes in March. six months later the same three fire, every single time, and the other five have never once been reached. then a case arrives that nobody drew, and it goes to the closest wrong box. quietly, with a green status, because from the inside that looks exactly like success. Graph engineering fixes this by moving the decision: not what the steps do, but when the steps get chosen. you need both, and here is the sentence that resolves the whole confusion: a workflow decides the steps before it runs. a graph decides them while it runs. ↳ drawn in advance: the boxes, the branches, the order, the error path ↳ decided at runtime: how many units exist, what each one is allowed to see, which ones get created at all Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs branches do not make it a graph. the branches were drawn in advance too, which means every one of them is a case you already thought of. the trick is knowing which part is allowed to be fixed. the node kinds are fixed. a splitter is a splitter, a gate is a gate, a merge is code. what is not fixed is how many of them exist this run, and that is decided after something has been read. one thing to know before you scale it. a workflow fails in a way that never pages anyone. ↳ the wrong branch ran, every check inside it passed, and the output is well formed ↳ nothing errored, because routing to the wrong box is not an error, it is a route that last one catches careful people. you cannot test your way out of it either, because the test suite was written from the same diagram that has the gap in it. and the one that eats whole nights: a workflow that has never surprised you is not stable, it is narrow. if it has run four hundred times and produced the same three shapes, it is not handling your work. it is handling the part of your work that fits it, and you have quietly stopped sending it the rest. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓
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Workflows vs. Graphs, clearly explained! workflows are great, and almost everyone has one. here is the ceiling: a workflow decides every step before it runs. you drew eight boxes in March. six months later the same three fire, every single time, and the other five have never once been reached. then a case arrives that nobody drew, and it goes to the closest wrong box. quietly, with a green status, because from the inside that looks exactly like success. Graph engineering fixes this by moving the decision: not what the steps do, but when the steps get chosen. you need both, and here is the sentence that resolves the whole confusion: a workflow decides the steps before it runs. a graph decides them while it runs. ↳ drawn in advance: the boxes, the branches, the order, the error path ↳ decided at runtime: how many units exist, what each one is allowed to see, which ones get created at all Prompts → Context → Harness → Loops → Graphs branches do not make it a graph. the branches were drawn in advance too, which means every one of them is a case you already thought of. the trick is knowing which part is allowed to be fixed. the node kinds are fixed. a splitter is a splitter, a gate is a gate, a merge is code. what is not fixed is how many of them exist this run, and that is decided after something has been read. one thing to know before you scale it. a workflow fails in a way that never pages anyone. ↳ the wrong branch ran, every check inside it passed, and the output is well formed ↳ nothing errored, because routing to the wrong box is not an error, it is a route that last one catches careful people. you cannot test your way out of it either, because the test suite was written from the same diagram that has the gap in it. and the one that eats whole nights: a workflow that has never surprised you is not stable, it is narrow. if it has run four hundred times and produced the same three shapes, it is not handling your work. it is handling the part of your work that fits it, and you have quietly stopped sending it the rest. below i have quoted my full guide on graph engineering. it covers the three topologies, the verifier patterns, and where the gate should actually open. save this and read it below ↓

Hanako

16,810 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

you told it something in the middle of a session, and an hour later it behaved like you never had you were not forgotten, you were never written down an instruction can live in three places and compaction treats them differently: the project root file is re-read from disk and put back, a nested one or a path scoped rule comes back only when the model next opens a file it applies to, and anything you only said out loud comes back never so the rule you typed most recently, in the moment it mattered most, is the one with the shortest life in the room you thought you were configuring it you were talking to it one of those survives the summary
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you told it something in the middle of a session, and an hour later it behaved like you never had you were not forgotten, you were never written down an instruction can live in three places and compaction treats them differently: the project root file is re-read from disk and put back, a nested one or a path scoped rule comes back only when the model next opens a file it applies to, and anything you only said out loud comes back never so the rule you typed most recently, in the moment it mattered most, is the one with the shortest life in the room you thought you were configuring it you were talking to it one of those survives the summary

Lagosaur

10,263 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

A million-token window solved the wrong problem, and Kimi K3 shipping one made that harder to see. 2.8T parameters, weights on your disk, an entire codebase in one prompt. Feels like memory. Isn't. Memory is what survives the session ending. A window is what survives the next token. Self-hosting sharpens it. Now you pay in GPU seconds, not API credits. Every re-read of the same history burns the same compute. Owning the weights didn't make the past free. Kimi Delta Attention cuts what long context costs. Cheaper repetition is still repetition. And a bigger window buys the one thing you don't want: room to keep everything. Nothing in a transcript is dated, ranked, or retired. Old and current load at identical weight. The fix runs beside the model, not inside it. Capture rejects, consolidation merges, decay forgets on schedule. Then a million tokens becomes headroom instead of a bill. You fill 5,000 and leave the rest empty. Look at what your longest thread reloads every run. Then ask how much of it earned the slot.
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A million-token window solved the wrong problem, and Kimi K3 shipping one made that harder to see. 2.8T parameters, weights on your disk, an entire codebase in one prompt. Feels like memory. Isn't. Memory is what survives the session ending. A window is what survives the next token. Self-hosting sharpens it. Now you pay in GPU seconds, not API credits. Every re-read of the same history burns the same compute. Owning the weights didn't make the past free. Kimi Delta Attention cuts what long context costs. Cheaper repetition is still repetition. And a bigger window buys the one thing you don't want: room to keep everything. Nothing in a transcript is dated, ranked, or retired. Old and current load at identical weight. The fix runs beside the model, not inside it. Capture rejects, consolidation merges, decay forgets on schedule. Then a million tokens becomes headroom instead of a bill. You fill 5,000 and leave the rest empty. Look at what your longest thread reloads every run. Then ask how much of it earned the slot.

wast3

17,620 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

you handed a job to a subagent so your main window would stay clean the window stayed clean, the context did not tools load per conversation, not per task, so the browser tools you needed for one check sat in front of the model for everything you did after it four lines of frontmatter fix it, a subagent can carry its own servers, defined inline, scoped to that agent alone on my machine that moved twenty four playwright tools and four thousand four hundred tokens out of the main conversation and into the one place they get used you were not delegating work you were duplicating the menu and delegating a slice of it the cheapest tool is the one the model was never shown
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you handed a job to a subagent so your main window would stay clean the window stayed clean, the context did not tools load per conversation, not per task, so the browser tools you needed for one check sat in front of the model for everything you did after it four lines of frontmatter fix it, a subagent can carry its own servers, defined inline, scoped to that agent alone on my machine that moved twenty four playwright tools and four thousand four hundred tokens out of the main conversation and into the one place they get used you were not delegating work you were duplicating the menu and delegating a slice of it the cheapest tool is the one the model was never shown

Lagosaur

42,385 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Andrej Karpathy: "Prompting is going away. Delete everything, keep Graph." In just 124 minutes, he shows how to build graphs and why they're the only layer that survives in the end Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs a loop keeps one agent running until the job is done a graph decides which agents exist and what each one passes to the next anyone can build an agent, almost nobody builds the graph that runs them watch it today, then save the full guide below ↓
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Andrej Karpathy: "Prompting is going away. Delete everything, keep Graph." In just 124 minutes, he shows how to build graphs and why they're the only layer that survives in the end Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs a loop keeps one agent running until the job is done a graph decides which agents exist and what each one passes to the next anyone can build an agent, almost nobody builds the graph that runs them watch it today, then save the full guide below ↓

Kyrox

44,980 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen

I'm sharing with you one of the best papers I've read on Harness Engineering it takes apart Claude Code (Opus 5.5), Codex, Gemini CLI and more, and boils all of them down to one line: agent = model + harness what you walk away with: > what a harness actually is > how today's coding agents are built under the hood > the patterns every one of them repeats > where the whole category is heading > their checklist for building your own the model gets the headlines. the harness decides whether the agent works loop and graph engineering on top of it - in my article below
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I'm sharing with you one of the best papers I've read on Harness Engineering it takes apart Claude Code (Opus 5.5), Codex, Gemini CLI and more, and boils all of them down to one line: agent = model + harness what you walk away with: > what a harness actually is > how today's coding agents are built under the hood > the patterns every one of them repeats > where the whole category is heading > their checklist for building your own the model gets the headlines. the harness decides whether the agent works loop and graph engineering on top of it - in my article below

Mr. Buzzoni

84,277 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen

FIVE LAYERS OF AGENT ENGINEERING, EACH ONE WRAPS THE ONE BELOW IT. IF YOU SKIP LAYER 2, YOUR LAYER 5 WILL LOOK BROKEN WHEN IT IS ACTUALLY JUST STANDING ON NOTHING. for weeks i debated harness vs loop vs graph like they were competing choices. then a stack diagram made the shape obvious. they are not choices. they are floors. 01 | prompt engineering. the message. unit of work: one input. inputs are role, instructions, examples, format. output is a single raw response. 02 | context engineering. the memory. unit of work: what stays in the window. a curator selects, compresses, and drops from query, docs, memory, prior turns, and tool outputs before the prompt runs. 03 | harness engineering. the machine. unit of work: the machine itself. gather (context + prompt) → LLM → tools or sub-agents → verifier → final response. the article calls this the operating environment. 04 | loop engineering. the system. unit of work: the run. goal + success criteria + max iterations + budget + completion check wrap around one harness pass. failed pass appends results to context and retries. 05 | graph engineering. the topology. unit of work: the graph run. goal + nodes + edges + state schema. graph routes to agent nodes, tool nodes, or human approval. a reviewer node with a different model and fresh context checks the final answer. the wrapping is the whole point. layer 5 assumes layer 4 works. layer 4 assumes layer 3 works. skip layer 2 and layer 3's verifier keeps failing without a clear reason. this is why swapping the model is a one-day project and swapping the stack is a quarter. the model is the commodity. the five layers around it are the engineering. full three-layer breakdown of the top of the stack (harness, loop, graph) in the post below.
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FIVE LAYERS OF AGENT ENGINEERING, EACH ONE WRAPS THE ONE BELOW IT. IF YOU SKIP LAYER 2, YOUR LAYER 5 WILL LOOK BROKEN WHEN IT IS ACTUALLY JUST STANDING ON NOTHING. for weeks i debated harness vs loop vs graph like they were competing choices. then a stack diagram made the shape obvious. they are not choices. they are floors. 01 | prompt engineering. the message. unit of work: one input. inputs are role, instructions, examples, format. output is a single raw response. 02 | context engineering. the memory. unit of work: what stays in the window. a curator selects, compresses, and drops from query, docs, memory, prior turns, and tool outputs before the prompt runs. 03 | harness engineering. the machine. unit of work: the machine itself. gather (context + prompt) → LLM → tools or sub-agents → verifier → final response. the article calls this the operating environment. 04 | loop engineering. the system. unit of work: the run. goal + success criteria + max iterations + budget + completion check wrap around one harness pass. failed pass appends results to context and retries. 05 | graph engineering. the topology. unit of work: the graph run. goal + nodes + edges + state schema. graph routes to agent nodes, tool nodes, or human approval. a reviewer node with a different model and fresh context checks the final answer. the wrapping is the whole point. layer 5 assumes layer 4 works. layer 4 assumes layer 3 works. skip layer 2 and layer 3's verifier keeps failing without a clear reason. this is why swapping the model is a one-day project and swapping the stack is a quarter. the model is the commodity. the five layers around it are the engineering. full three-layer breakdown of the top of the stack (harness, loop, graph) in the post below.

kocer

31,198 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

this video is the CLEAREST explanation of how claude skills + AI agents work and how to use them most people set up an AI agent and wonder why it keeps disappointing them. the context window is everything context is what the model assembles before it takes any action. think of it like everything the agent needs to read before it does anything. the quality of what goes in determines the quality of what comes out. the models are genuinely really good right now. claude and gpt are exceptional. the variable is almost always the context you give them. 1. agent.md files are mostly unnecessary every single line you put in an agent.md file gets added to every single conversation you have with your agent. a 1000 line file is around 7000 tokens burning on every run. the model already knows to use react. it can read your codebase. save the agent.md for proprietary information specific to your company that the model genuinely cannot know on its own. 2. skills are the actual unlock a skill.md file works differently. what loads into context is only the name and description, around 50 tokens. the full instructions only appear when the agent recognizes it needs that skill. so instead of 7000 tokens on every run you have 50. and the agent stays sharp because the context window stays lean. the closer you get to filling the context window the worse the agent performs, same way you perform worse when someone dumps 10 things on you at once. 3. here is how to actually build a skill the right way most people identify a workflow and immediately try to write the skill. what you want to do instead is run the workflow by hand with the agent first. walk it through every single step. tell it what to check, what good looks like, what bad looks like. correct it in real time. once you have had a full successful run from start to finish, tell the agent to review everything it just did and write the skill itself. it writes a better skill than you will because it has the full context of what actually worked in practice not in theory. 4. recursively building skills is how you go from frustrated to reliable when the skill breaks, and it will break, ask the agent exactly why it failed. it will tell you specifically what went wrong. fix it together in that same conversation. then tell it to update the skill file so that failure mode never happens again. ross mike did this five times with his youtube report generator. it now pulls from eight different data sources and runs flawlessly every single time without him touching it. 5. sub agents are something you earn not something you set up on day one start with one agent. build one workflow. turn it into one skill. once that works add another. ross mike has five sub agents now covering marketing, business, personal and more. it took months to get there and every single one exists because a workflow proved it deserved to exist. the people who set up 15 sub agents on day one and wonder why nothing works skipped all the steps that make the thing actually run. 6. your workflow is the thing the model cannot get anywhere else the model has been trained on everything. it knows more than you about most things. what it does not have is your specific process, your taste, your way of doing things. that is what skills capture. that is what makes your agent actually useful versus a generic one. downloading someone else's skill means downloading their context onto your setup and it will not work the way you want it to because it was never built around how you work. this is the clearest explanation of how agents actually work i have heard. Micky runs this stuff every single day and the results show it. full episode is now live on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 where you get your pods people charge for this sorta stuff i give away the sauce for free i just want you to win watch
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this video is the CLEAREST explanation of how claude skills + AI agents work and how to use them most people set up an AI agent and wonder why it keeps disappointing them. the context window is everything context is what the model assembles before it takes any action. think of it like everything the agent needs to read before it does anything. the quality of what goes in determines the quality of what comes out. the models are genuinely really good right now. claude and gpt are exceptional. the variable is almost always the context you give them. 1. agent.md files are mostly unnecessary every single line you put in an agent.md file gets added to every single conversation you have with your agent. a 1000 line file is around 7000 tokens burning on every run. the model already knows to use react. it can read your codebase. save the agent.md for proprietary information specific to your company that the model genuinely cannot know on its own. 2. skills are the actual unlock a skill.md file works differently. what loads into context is only the name and description, around 50 tokens. the full instructions only appear when the agent recognizes it needs that skill. so instead of 7000 tokens on every run you have 50. and the agent stays sharp because the context window stays lean. the closer you get to filling the context window the worse the agent performs, same way you perform worse when someone dumps 10 things on you at once. 3. here is how to actually build a skill the right way most people identify a workflow and immediately try to write the skill. what you want to do instead is run the workflow by hand with the agent first. walk it through every single step. tell it what to check, what good looks like, what bad looks like. correct it in real time. once you have had a full successful run from start to finish, tell the agent to review everything it just did and write the skill itself. it writes a better skill than you will because it has the full context of what actually worked in practice not in theory. 4. recursively building skills is how you go from frustrated to reliable when the skill breaks, and it will break, ask the agent exactly why it failed. it will tell you specifically what went wrong. fix it together in that same conversation. then tell it to update the skill file so that failure mode never happens again. ross mike did this five times with his youtube report generator. it now pulls from eight different data sources and runs flawlessly every single time without him touching it. 5. sub agents are something you earn not something you set up on day one start with one agent. build one workflow. turn it into one skill. once that works add another. ross mike has five sub agents now covering marketing, business, personal and more. it took months to get there and every single one exists because a workflow proved it deserved to exist. the people who set up 15 sub agents on day one and wonder why nothing works skipped all the steps that make the thing actually run. 6. your workflow is the thing the model cannot get anywhere else the model has been trained on everything. it knows more than you about most things. what it does not have is your specific process, your taste, your way of doing things. that is what skills capture. that is what makes your agent actually useful versus a generic one. downloading someone else's skill means downloading their context onto your setup and it will not work the way you want it to because it was never built around how you work. this is the clearest explanation of how agents actually work i have heard. Micky runs this stuff every single day and the results show it. full episode is now live on The Startup Ideas Podcast (SIP) 🧃 where you get your pods people charge for this sorta stuff i give away the sauce for free i just want you to win watch

GREG ISENBERG

194,990 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

Everyone wants agent swarms. Very few people are talking seriously enough about the context layer that makes swarms useful. Even with one agent, context is fragile. Too little context and the agent guesses. Too much context and it wastes tokens, loses focus, or reasons over irrelevant noise. The sweet spot is precise context: the right knowledge, in the right structure, at the right moment. With many agents, that challenge explodes. Each agent produces decisions, assumptions, findings, summaries, risks, and partial conclusions. Unless that knowledge becomes shared, structured, and reusable, every new agent is forced to rediscover what another agent already learned. That is not a swarm. That is a crowd. Shared context graphs are what turn agent activity into agent collaboration, and OriginTrail DKG V10 brings them to life. Was just playing with some final polishing for the V10 release, and it is really powerful to see shared context graphs where multiple agents contribute knowledge into the same connected memory, with attribution visible directly in the graph ui. That matters for three reasons. First, agents can access and build on one shared memory instead of staying trapped in isolated sessions. Second, the graph structure helps them retrieve the exact context they need, instead of stuffing everything into a prompt and hoping the model sorts it out. Third, verifiability of provenance. You can see which agent contributed each piece of knowledge, trace the source, and decide what to trust. Tokenmaxxing starts with fewer tokens, but the deeper story is coordination - agents stop reloading the world and start building on shared, verifiable context. That is the foundation for serious multi-agent work across software engineering, research, finance, operations, project management, and far beyond. The future is not more agents, it is agents working from shared, verifiable context. But the more the merrier, of course.
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Everyone wants agent swarms. Very few people are talking seriously enough about the context layer that makes swarms useful. Even with one agent, context is fragile. Too little context and the agent guesses. Too much context and it wastes tokens, loses focus, or reasons over irrelevant noise. The sweet spot is precise context: the right knowledge, in the right structure, at the right moment. With many agents, that challenge explodes. Each agent produces decisions, assumptions, findings, summaries, risks, and partial conclusions. Unless that knowledge becomes shared, structured, and reusable, every new agent is forced to rediscover what another agent already learned. That is not a swarm. That is a crowd. Shared context graphs are what turn agent activity into agent collaboration, and OriginTrail DKG V10 brings them to life. Was just playing with some final polishing for the V10 release, and it is really powerful to see shared context graphs where multiple agents contribute knowledge into the same connected memory, with attribution visible directly in the graph ui. That matters for three reasons. First, agents can access and build on one shared memory instead of staying trapped in isolated sessions. Second, the graph structure helps them retrieve the exact context they need, instead of stuffing everything into a prompt and hoping the model sorts it out. Third, verifiability of provenance. You can see which agent contributed each piece of knowledge, trace the source, and decide what to trust. Tokenmaxxing starts with fewer tokens, but the deeper story is coordination - agents stop reloading the world and start building on shared, verifiable context. That is the foundation for serious multi-agent work across software engineering, research, finance, operations, project management, and far beyond. The future is not more agents, it is agents working from shared, verifiable context. But the more the merrier, of course.

Jurij Skornik

11,180 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Andrej Karpathy: "Prompting is going away. Delete everything, keep Graph." In 69 minutes he shows how to build Graphs, and why it's the only thing that will be left standing at the end Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs a loop keeps one agent working until the job is done a graph decides which agents exist and what each one hands to the next anyone can build an agent, almost no one builds the graph that runs them watch it today, then save the full guide on Graphs below before everyone catches up ↓
1:09:23

Andrej Karpathy: "Prompting is going away. Delete everything, keep Graph." In 69 minutes he shows how to build Graphs, and why it's the only thing that will be left standing at the end Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs a loop keeps one agent working until the job is done a graph decides which agents exist and what each one hands to the next anyone can build an agent, almost no one builds the graph that runs them watch it today, then save the full guide on Graphs below before everyone catches up ↓

Callan

502,535 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Anthropic engineer: "At Anthropic, all of our engineers are running hundreds of agents The way you do it is graph engineering" In just 36 minutes, he shows how Anthropic runs hundreds of agents at once and what actually makes it possible Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs The part most people skip is the return path, where every accepted result becomes a constraint for the next run Same model, same tokens, completely different system Prompting is the old workflow Graph engineering is the next one Watch it today Then save the full graph engineering guide below before everyone starts catching up ↓
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Anthropic engineer: "At Anthropic, all of our engineers are running hundreds of agents The way you do it is graph engineering" In just 36 minutes, he shows how Anthropic runs hundreds of agents at once and what actually makes it possible Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs The part most people skip is the return path, where every accepted result becomes a constraint for the next run Same model, same tokens, completely different system Prompting is the old workflow Graph engineering is the next one Watch it today Then save the full graph engineering guide below before everyone starts catching up ↓

Lunar

32,902 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

THIS IS F*CKING OBSCENE opus 5.5 got Fortnite running inside Minecraft and Minecraft running inside GTA 5, with nobody's permission and nobody's documentation three engines, three completely different ways in, and one of them has no way in at all THREE GAMES, THREE DIFFERENT WAYS IN → Minecraft is Java and ships a loader on purpose. that one is the front door. you write against an interface somebody meant for you to use → GTA 5 has no modding api and no front door. you get a compiled binary and nothing else, and the only route in is to read it → Fortnite is a live service with anti cheat sitting on top. there is no way in at all, and that single fact changes the entire job WHAT READING A BINARY ACTUALLY MEANS → no source, no comments, no function names. you recover what code does from what it is, which is the opposite direction from how it was written → the exact build gets pinned before anything else, because one patch moves every address underneath you, and a different version is a different game → nothing counts until it is confirmed inside the running process. launch it, play it, look at it. opus 5.5 does the reading, the pinning and the checking, and that loop is the part that used to be a team and a year WHAT THIS ACTUALLY CHANGES → reverse engineering was the most expensive skill in modding. one person, one binary, months of evenings, and the knowledge died with the project → now it is a loop that runs while you sleep, and what comes out of it is not a guess, it is something that got checked against the game while the game was running → so the hard question stopped being whether you can get into an engine. it is what you do once you are standing in three of them at once one layer was read out of a binary one came through the front door one was never touched at all, and it still had to land right
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THIS IS F*CKING OBSCENE opus 5.5 got Fortnite running inside Minecraft and Minecraft running inside GTA 5, with nobody's permission and nobody's documentation three engines, three completely different ways in, and one of them has no way in at all THREE GAMES, THREE DIFFERENT WAYS IN → Minecraft is Java and ships a loader on purpose. that one is the front door. you write against an interface somebody meant for you to use → GTA 5 has no modding api and no front door. you get a compiled binary and nothing else, and the only route in is to read it → Fortnite is a live service with anti cheat sitting on top. there is no way in at all, and that single fact changes the entire job WHAT READING A BINARY ACTUALLY MEANS → no source, no comments, no function names. you recover what code does from what it is, which is the opposite direction from how it was written → the exact build gets pinned before anything else, because one patch moves every address underneath you, and a different version is a different game → nothing counts until it is confirmed inside the running process. launch it, play it, look at it. opus 5.5 does the reading, the pinning and the checking, and that loop is the part that used to be a team and a year WHAT THIS ACTUALLY CHANGES → reverse engineering was the most expensive skill in modding. one person, one binary, months of evenings, and the knowledge died with the project → now it is a loop that runs while you sleep, and what comes out of it is not a guess, it is something that got checked against the game while the game was running → so the hard question stopped being whether you can get into an engine. it is what you do once you are standing in three of them at once one layer was read out of a binary one came through the front door one was never touched at all, and it still had to land right

Roxx

195,453 Aufrufe • vor 11 Tagen

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman: "You don't need to write prompts anymore. You need Loops and Graphs." In 38 minutes he explains why his own engineers stopped writing prompts, and what they build instead Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs a prompt buys you one answer a graph buys you the whole job, and you are not in it watch it today then save the full graph engineering guide below before everyone catches up ↓
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OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman: "You don't need to write prompts anymore. You need Loops and Graphs." In 38 minutes he explains why his own engineers stopped writing prompts, and what they build instead Prompts → Agents → Loops → Graphs a prompt buys you one answer a graph buys you the whole job, and you are not in it watch it today then save the full graph engineering guide below before everyone catches up ↓

Hanako

17,768 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten