The main variable in getting success with agents is whether you can get the agent the context it needs to do its work; and a major factor in that is if you can create a shared working area for that agent that a human can understand as well.
This is one of the reasons why agents using file systems is such a big deal. It creates a unified system that both the person and the agent can work within to pass around data.
“What they need is a working set: plans, notes, task lists, policies, drafts, summaries, logs, corrections, decisions, etc. For that layer, a filesystem-shaped interface tends to be more legible to both the model and the humans supervising it.”
It turns out giving agents access to the systems we already know how to use, but in a way that is best optimized for them, is the perfect primitive for agents to work.
Carter Rabasa (@crtr0)
— https://nitter.net/crtr0/status/2066558169741173177#m