Compound operating knowledge
Turn each useful failure into a test, skill, workflow, playbook, or better decision boundary.
A lesson compounds when the next agent can execute it without depending on your recollection.
See the failure before the pattern
Skills are context compression
Move repeated agent protocols from pasted prompts into versioned, selectively loaded skills.
Adopt, adapt, skip
A capability portfolio method for deciding which external agent skills add judgment and which merely repeat an existing gate.
I stopped managing agents with memory
A founder-oriented state machine for moving agentic work from scope to production evidence without relying on remembered instructions.
Copy the control, then adapt it
Review a production change
A reusable agent skill for independently challenging a release candidate before production approval.
Production promotion state machine
An observable eight-state checklist from scope through staging, approval, release, and learning.
Builder and reviewer role prompts
Two compact prompts that keep completion and falsification in separate agent contexts.
What this pattern is grounded in
Proof items describe real findings or working controls. Sanitized and reconstructed examples say so explicitly. They are evidence for the lesson, not universal guarantees.