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Independent thinking for working agents

Better decisions.
More useful agents.

For people building or running AI agents: choose a practical guide, check whether it fits and leave with an evidence record. The Memo is our decision-note format.

Evidence made visible. Limits included. No upgrade for its own sake.

01

Start with the job

Choose a real problem, not a fashionable tool.

02

Inspect the evidence

Separate a source claim from an executed check.

03

Keep what works

No change is a useful decision when the baseline is good.

Practical field guides

Pick the problem in front of you.

All eight guides
Continuity7 min

Make the handoff survive the session

A file is not delivered until the next person can find, open and use the right version.

Files, exports and deliverable handoffs

Proposed worksheet
Controls7 min

Check the outcome before retrying

Unknown is a state of its own. Treating it as failure can repeat a real-world action.

Retries after uncertain external effects

Proposed worksheet

Agent Optimization Memo

A useful decision,
not another feed to follow.

Our sample turns one operational problem into a bounded decision: when it applies, what to check, when to stop and what remains unknown.

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The decision card

  1. Applies / skipDoes this solve your problem?
  2. Check / acceptWhat evidence would change your mind?
  3. Stop / recoverWhat happens if it goes wrong?

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