The implementation of argentic-mw: the common Core in two hundred lines, three pipelines (Watch, Web Stats, Zendesk), the rule table, the auto-response guardrails and the scheduler via Postgres leader election.
Agents
Build or buy for an LLM agent? Three axes, six decision criteria, and a quadrant to compare full-LLM platforms, orchestration frameworks and a custom core. The framework I apply to argentic-mw.
Why I built a supervised agent rather than an autonomous one for a scheduled business pipeline. The LLM steps in at extension points where it is useful, the rest is deterministic, traceable, replayable code.
A synthesis of Mario Zechner's ideas on coding agents. Why the minimalism of the Pi agent, coupled with strict context engineering and CLI tools, often beats heavy frameworks.