A dated map of agent-system tooling by the responsibility it primarily owns, beginning with the Markdown-and-skills setup that is enough until a specific failure earns another layer.
One session upgrades a control-plane node while another watches the API flap, unable to tell failure from maintenance. Instead of a new cluster-wide lock, a wrapper-derived maintenance notice should let the next Talos upgrade be correlated — if it cannot, the hypothesis fails.
Exploratory claim · Current · Agent infrastructure
OutctlA tool that captures a command's full output outside the agent's context and returns a bounded projection the agent can query later for the omitted evidence. began as an answer to tool results flooding model context. Programmatic tool calling now moves that work into the harness, invalidating the original product boundary while leaving a narrower durable-evidence question open.
Exploratory claim · Current · Agent infrastructure
Production access exposes the limits of prompt-only agent design. A useful operational run binds a general harness to domain context, scoped authority, evidence, and completion rules.