Four Primitives for Reliable Agents
Tight_Heron1730 · reddit · 2026-07-09
The author summarizes four key primitives repeatedly validated while building agent tools: evidence-based memory, evaluation by counting rather than scoring, unified governance gates, and honest recursion. The core argument is that agent failures often stem not from a lack of intelligence, but from the absence of foundational mechanisms to constrain their behavior.
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