Agent design rule: verifiers may give feedback but never promote candidates
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-09-23
DominikTornow proposes an agent architecture principle: an agent may use a verifier for feedback during generation, but must not let it promote a candidate — "the probabilistic core proposes; the deterministic shell promotes." The idea comes from his article "What Color is Your Agent?", framed after Bob Nystrom's classic 2015 essay "What Color is Your Function?"
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