Agents That Actually Work
The narrow band where autonomy earns its keep
A book by Alpesh Nakrani
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- Pages
- 109
- Chapters
- 12
- Format
- PDF · 19.3 MB
What's in the book
Agent demos are intoxicating and agent production is sobering. The truth is there is a real, narrow band of tasks where an agent beats a script and a human both. This manual is about locating that band for your domain, instrumenting it, and resisting the pressure to widen it before the evidence does.
Between the demo and the disappointment is a thin set of tasks where agents are genuinely better. How to find it and stay inside it.
Table of contents
PDF page- INTIntroduction: The Demo That Lied9
- 01What an Agent Is and Is Not15
- 02The Autonomy Ladder21
- 03The BOUND Test28
- 04Bounded Goals and Task Contracts35
- 05Tools, Permissions, and Side Effects42
- 06State, Memory, and Context Control49
- 07Planning Without Wandering56
- 08Evaluating Agent Runs63
- 09Human Handoffs and Approvals70
- 10Observability and Replay77
- 11Security Boundaries for Tool-Using Systems84
- 12Incidents, Kill Switches, and Rollback91
- ENDConclusion: The Most Accountable Agent Wins99
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