3 posts tagged “prompting”.
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Anatomy of a great task argued from what good looks like. This is the inverse: five specific ways we have watched our own tasks waste an agent run, why each one fails, and what to write instead. Most of these examples are ours. Honestly so.
10 min
The acceptance_criteria block is the single field the daemon, the agent, and the human reviewer all read the same way. It is also where most failed Watchfire runs are decided — long before the agent picks a file to edit. Here is how to write criteria that hold.
10 min
Most failed agent runs aren't model failures — they're prompt failures. After a year of running Watchfire on itself, here's what we've learned about writing tasks an agent can actually complete on the first try.