AI AGENTSTHAT WORK
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A candidate task passing through five gates: value, boundary, judgement, evidence and control. All yes means build first; boundary no means decompose with OPT; judgement no means use rules; evidence no means fix the evidence first; control no means keep the decision human.
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Idea 5 of 8 · Choosing the work

Not every task deserves an agent.

Before you build, put the task through five gates: value, boundary, judgement, evidence and control.

If judgement adds nothing, use rules. If you cannot verify it, you cannot evaluate it. Fail a gate, fix that first.

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