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Dana Whitfield
Agent frameworks, orchestration and tool protocols
Covers the plumbing under the word agent: orchestration, tool protocols, approvals, and the cost of a run that has to be right rather than impressive.
What this desk covers
- Agent frameworks
- MCP and tool protocols
- Evaluation of multi-step runs
- Human-in-the-loop design
What this desk reads
- Model Context Protocol specification
- Framework changelogs and issue trackers
- Post-incident write-ups from teams running agents in production
- Vendor reference architectures
How this desk decides
Judges an agent stack on what happens on step nine, not step one: retries, approvals, cost per completed task, and what the run does when a tool is down.
What this byline is
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