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Why I publish explore prompts

guiding / current / agent workflow

A note explains what survived editing. An explorePrompt is a separate, deliberately post-hoc artifact that explains where the investigation should continue -- for a reader, their agent, or a later version of me.

The second operator is the test

exploration / superseded / agent workflow

sprintctl and actionq enforce useful execution discipline, but five current invariants rely on one operator remaining the only source of identity, authority, and audit judgment.

Judge agents by the next prompt

guiding / current / agent workflow

New agents carry more work from intent to evidence, but that changes rather than removes the supervision problem. The next prompt reveals whether the result needs repair or is ready to extend.

The ref nobody adds

guiding / current / agent workflow

The sprint database held 831 work items and seven doc refs, six of them the same document. The reference command existed the whole time. The missing piece was never a tool — it was placement on the path the agent actually walks.

Subprocess, not service

guiding / current / agent workflow

actionq-dispatcher runs agent work as subprocesses inside a per-invocation coordinator. The rejected alternative was a long-running agent service, and the rejection is most of the design.

The aftertaste of resolution

guiding / current / agent workflow

Conversational refinement produces the feeling of having thought clearly, which is not the same thing as having thought clearly. The fix was not discipline. It was writing the stop rule into the counterpart.

The coordinator never touches the repo

guiding / current / agent workflow

Sprint work is split into plan, build, and review dispatches, and the orchestrating session is structurally barred from editing deliverables. The bar is the point.

The missing layer is binding, not intelligence

archival / superseded / agent workflow

The useful workflow layer for solo agent work is not a giant orchestration stack. It is a local-first system that remembers claims, checkpoints, routing choices, and promotion boundaries without pretending one operator needs a whole platform team.