Volume 5 — Agentic Systems and Tool-Using Architectures
How static generators become actors, and how to keep them from becoming raccoons with API keys.
Reports
AI-ENG-M — Agentic Orchestration: Autonomy Boundaries, Loop Budgets & Termination
Covers agent loops, planning, reflection, decomposition, memory use, tool selection, scratchpads, state machines, graph-based workflows, loop budgets, tool budgets, timeout policies, escalation triggers, and termination conditions. Treats autonomy as a bounded architectural affordance, not a vibe.
AI-ENG-N — Tool Contracts: Function Calling, Schemas, Validation & Idempotency
Covers tool interfaces, schema design, argument validation, retry logic, repair loops, deterministic wrappers, idempotency, side-effect control, transactional boundaries, confirmation gates, and safe execution patterns. Establishes the principle that probabilistic actors need deterministic edges.
AI-ENG-O — Action Verification: Planning, Execution, Observation & Recovery
Covers verifying that tools did what the model thinks they did. Includes post-action checks, state reconciliation, rollback paths, partial failure handling, compensating actions, tool-result grounding, and preventing hallucinated success.