Agents & Tool Use

Articles

• Part 10

  Building Tool-Using Agents That Work Reliably

  Tool-use reliability is a systems property: tool design, a guarded control loop, permission gates, and pass^k evals on verifiable end states.

• Part 11

  Detecting and Recovering from Agent Loops

  Classify why an agent loops, add harness guardrails and better tool feedback, and recover with an escalation ladder you can measure.

• Part 12

  Designing Long-Term Memory for an LLM Assistant

  A tiered memory design with explicit write, read and forgetting policies, plus the benchmarks and production signals that show it works.

• Part 13

  Guaranteeing Valid JSON Output from LLMs

  Enforce JSON Schema at decode time, design schemas that keep quality high, and add validation, repair and truncation handling on top.