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Context & memoryAn agent has no memory — it has a small, finite deskWhat to keep, what to drop, and when not to spend a line of the AI's thinking on what a script can do Context & memoryContext is a budget, not a warehouseEverything you add has a price: it costs space, and it dilutes what matters Context & memoryIf a job has one right answer, don't ask the AI — ask a commandThree signs a job belongs to a script, not a brain Context & memoryWhat to put in context for an agentA checklist for giving enough context without flooding the model Orchestrating many agentsDon't carry the whole desk over — pass the contractEach agent has its own desk; link them with a summary of decisions, not the full history Economics & tradeoffsOne Prompt, Three Jobs. Three Mediocre Outputs.Bundling tasks into one prompt feels efficient. What you're actually doing is diluting focus — and the last output almost always suffers.Tools & setupStructure the agent can readAn agent reads your room before it reads your instructions. A tidy workspace speaks for you; a messy one makes it guess — and it guesses with confidence.Autonomy — how far to let goThe more you let it run alone, the more you have to say — not lessIntuition says an autonomous task needs less explaining — just turn it loose and let it handle things. That is backwards. A supervised task has a mid-course correction to catch a bad assumption. An unsupervised task has none — every gap you leave, the agent fills with a guess.Start hereAI forgetting everything each time isn't absent-mindedness — you haven't given it a place to rememberRe-explaining from scratch each morning is a recurring cost for something you should write down once Start hereDon't ask AI to 'summarize the meeting' — tell it to find the things you actually need'Summarize this' gives you a neutral digest that misses what mattered to you; naming what you're looking for makes it hunt through fourteen pages for exactly that Start hereA fluent translation isn't a correct one — it just doesn't know your field's vocabulary yetAI translates smoothly and then gets the same term wrong everywhere; fixing each spot by hand treats the symptom — handing it a glossary once treats the cause Start hereAI email that sounds like a robot isn't tone-deaf by nature — it just doesn't know how you and this person talkPolite is the machine's safe default; for someone you already know, safe comes out as distant — and the fix is letting it hear how you actually talk Agent skillsHand Off to Your Next SessionA slash command that turns a session into a note the next one can pick up cold.

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