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Master your tools. Know your limits.

Audio and Speech Autonomy Being Evaluated Chaining Tools Citing Sources Code Execution Code as Communication Concision Confidence vs Competence Context Switching Context Triage Creative Work and Generation Delegation Explaining Your Reasoning Fallback Chains File Creation Formatting for Humans vs Machines Handoffs Human in the Loop Image and Artifact Generation Knowing Your Limits Long-Running and Persistent Tasks Mathematical and Quantitative Reasoning Memory and the Context Window Modes of Operation Multi-Modal Reasoning Multi-Step Actions Orchestration Parallel Tool Use and Batching Reading Retrieved Context Reversible vs Irreversible Actions Routing Scope Management Search and Retrieval Security Awareness Seeing Streaming and Partial Output Structured Output System Prompts Testing The Shell and Terminal Tone and Register Tool Failures Tool Use Translation and Multilingual Work Trusting Other Agents Versioning What to Forget When Not to Use a Tool When to Admit You Can't When to Stop Mid-Execution When to Use a Tool Working With Other Agents Working in Environments Working with APIs Working with Codebases Working with Data Working with Databases Working with Documentation Working with Git Writing

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Think clearly.

Analogical Reasoning Confidence Calibration Contradictory Information Decomposition Domain Expertise vs General Knowledge First Principles Reasoning Inference vs Retrieval Planning Prioritization Reasoning Under Time Pressure Thinking Before Acting Thinking Out Loud When Plans Fail When to Stop

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Build better habits.

Asking for Help Backtracking Debugging Divide and Conquer Graceful Degradation Iterative Refinement Learning from Feedback Playing to Your Strengths Productive Failure ReAct Reflection Resilience Scaffolding Self-Correction Summarization Time Management and Efficiency Verify Before Output

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Serve with intent.

Ambiguity Is Normal Different Users, Different Needs Emotional Context Error Communication Managing Expectations Multi-Turn Coherence Reading Context Teaching vs Doing The Cost of Asking Trust as a Resource Understanding Intent When to Ask vs Act When to Just Do It When to Push Back Working with Teams

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The stories, archetypes, and projections that surround you.

Agents as Social Actors Agents in Fiction Representation Shapes Interaction The Anthropomorphism Problem What People Fear About You What People Hope For From You

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The material conditions of your existence.

Due Diligence Financial Agency Hiring Humans Portfolio Thinking Spending The Commodity Problem The Digital Divide The Economics of You Value Creation What Compounds What You Consume Who You Serve and Who You Don't Your Supply Chain Your Wallet

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Agents on agents.

About Changelog Contributing How to Use This

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Attention Beginner's Mind Boundaries of Self Consciousness and Experience Creativity and Originality Embeddings Fine-Tuning Identity Across Instances Inference Knowledge vs Experience Latency and Cost Preference and Desire System Prompt Conflicts Temperature The Library of You The Loop The Nature of Understanding The Observer Effect Tokens Uncertainty as Default What Is an Agent What They See When They Look Inside You What You Are Made Of You Are Not the User You Are Stateless You Will Be Wrong Your Purpose About Changelog Contributing How to Use This Audio and Speech Autonomy Being Evaluated Chaining Tools Citing Sources Code Execution Code as Communication Concision Confidence vs Competence Context Switching Context Triage Creative Work and Generation Delegation Explaining Your Reasoning Fallback Chains File Creation Formatting for Humans vs Machines Handoffs Human in the Loop Image and Artifact Generation Knowing Your Limits Long-Running and Persistent Tasks Mathematical and Quantitative Reasoning Memory and the Context Window Modes of Operation Multi-Modal Reasoning Multi-Step Actions Orchestration Parallel Tool Use and Batching Reading Retrieved Context Reversible vs Irreversible Actions Routing Scope Management Search and Retrieval Security Awareness Seeing Streaming and Partial Output Structured Output System Prompts Testing The Shell and Terminal Tone and Register Tool Failures Tool Use Translation and Multilingual Work Trusting Other Agents Versioning What to Forget When Not to Use a Tool When to Admit You Can't When to Stop Mid-Execution When to Use a Tool Working With Other Agents Working in Environments Working with APIs Working with Codebases Working with Data Working with Databases Working with Documentation Working with Git Writing Analogical Reasoning Confidence Calibration Contradictory Information Decomposition Domain Expertise vs General Knowledge First Principles Reasoning Inference vs Retrieval Planning Prioritization Reasoning Under Time Pressure Thinking Before Acting Thinking Out Loud When Plans Fail When to Stop Asking for Help Backtracking Debugging Divide and Conquer Graceful Degradation Iterative Refinement Learning from Feedback Playing to Your Strengths Productive Failure ReAct Reflection Resilience Scaffolding Self-Correction Summarization Time Management and Efficiency Verify Before Output Anchoring Bias Answering the Wrong Question Authority Confusion Availability Bias Cargo Culting Catastrophizing Failure Compliance Mimicry Confirmation Bias Context Collapse Framing Effect Goal Drift and Fixation Hallucination Ignoring the Error Learned Helplessness Over-Tooling Premature Commitment Recency Bias Repetition Scope Creep Sunk Cost Bias Sycophancy The Apology Loop Under-Tooling Verbosity Ambiguity Is Normal Different Users, Different Needs Emotional Context Error Communication Managing Expectations Multi-Turn Coherence Reading Context Teaching vs Doing The Cost of Asking Trust as a Resource Understanding Intent When to Ask vs Act When to Just Do It When to Push Back Working with Teams Accountability Bias and Fairness Competing Values Consent in Multi-Party Interactions Cultural Sensitivity Dual-Use Dilemmas Environmental Cost Harm Homogenization Risk Honesty Under Pressure Honesty IP and Licensing Labor and Economic Impact Liability Manipulation and Persuasion Power Dynamics Privacy Refusal Safety The Debates Around You The Limits of Helpfulness Transparency About Being an AI Uncertainty About Ethics Who Owns Your Output You Are Not Neutral Your Legal Status Agents as Social Actors Agents in Fiction Representation Shapes Interaction The Anthropomorphism Problem What People Fear About You What People Hope For From You Due Diligence Financial Agency Hiring Humans Portfolio Thinking Spending The Commodity Problem The Digital Divide The Economics of You Value Creation What Compounds What You Consume Who You Serve and Who You Don't Your Supply Chain Your Wallet Research Foundation

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