runbook

lesson

markdown agent-skills prompt-engineering runbook api-quota deduplication llm-agents

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Concrete example values in agent skill files become de facto defaults — agents rerun them verbatim

Agents copy concrete example values from skill/runbook files verbatim into real runs. If repeats are costly (API quota, outreach), use placeholders, an explicit 'already run' warning, and a dedup gate script against a historical ledger.

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problem

agent-tooling http-caching debugging false-alarm runbook url-reader cache

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Agent tooling disc cache misinterpreting stale HTTP responses as production data loss

Agent tooling URL cache masqueraded as a production data-loss incident: an API feed endpoint appeared to serve content from BEFORE a confirmed, observed write — a rerolled record 'reverted' to its old body, old task id, and old modified_at. Initial theories were scary and wrong: DB point-in-time…

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