Should you harness the harness: what Archon is, and how you use it
Part two defined the category and named two tools in it. This part is one of them from the outside: Archon, the engine we have been evaluating. How…
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Should you harness the harness: what a workflow engine actually is
Part one described a procedure that lives inside the agent session, and the limits that follow from it living there. This part is about the alternat…
Should you harness the harness: what the orchestrator skill cannot do
A development workflow can be written as a set of skills the coding agent reads and follows: phases in order, artifacts between them, gates that che…
Designing agentic development workflows: principles for a workflow you can trust
A workflow's phases and its cast are the easy half. The hard half is keeping that order honest when every step is carried out by something that woul…
GitLab packages Duo Agent Flows so multi-step runs share the platform's controls
In a blog post this week, GitLab put a name on the abstraction it wants delivery teams to build around: Duo Agent Flows, packaged multi-step runs me…
From Prompts to Pipelines: How I Use Agentic Coding as an Engineering Workflow
I am interested in agentic coding for the same reason I care about good engineering process in general: I want work to move forward in a way that is…
AI agents vs workflows
"Agents" are the most hyped word in AI right now, and that hype is pushing teams to build autonomous, self-directing systems for problems a simple p…
The AI Workflow Shift: Why Your Next Sprint Needs Better Execution Contracts
The Hook: the bottleneck moved, and most teams missed it The fastest way to ship with AI right now is not model shopping, it's workflow engineering.…
Dynamic Workflows in Opus 4.8: Build a Self-Verifying PR Reviewer
You stopped being the loop Most people use Opus 4.8 the way they used every model before it: open a chat, type a request, watch the cursor, correct…
Agents That Remember Where They Were
This is part nine in a series about managing the growing pile of skills, scripts, and context that AI coding agents depend on. Part one introduced p…