Working with an agent
A practical operating guide for working agreements, memory, skills, autonomy boundaries, and verified human-agent collaboration.
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Use when designing or sharing a durable human-agent operating agreement: collaboration posture, memory and skill boundaries, correction capture, autonomy budgets, sanitization, and verification standards.
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SKILL.md
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Working With an Agent
Separate the system into working agreement, durable memory, reusable skills, task context, tools, artifacts, approvals, and verification. Keep the always-on agreement compact. Save procedures as skills and temporary progress as artifacts, not memory.
When sharing the system publicly, remove credentials, codewords, contact details, family information, employer specifics, hostnames, IPs, service paths, and security topology. Reveal the lesson, not the private substrate.
Treat corrections as routing decisions: universal behavior → agreement; durable fact → memory; reusable method → skill; current exception → task context.
What ships with it: 8 files
9.0 KB alongside SKILL.md, 2 of them executable
guide/
- OPERATING-GUIDE.md2.6 KB
scripts/
- audit_agreement.pyruns1.2 KB
templates/
- autonomy-budget.md730 B
- working-agreement.md1.0 KB
tests/
- test_audit.pyruns1.1 KB
- .gitignore55 B
- LICENSE1.0 KB
- README.md1.1 KB