Working with agents

Agent teams in practice: how they run, what they remember, where they go wrong, and the workflows that work.

41 articles, newest first. Every article on this site is in exactly one of eight sections.

October 2026 41

The book of the talk by morning · RC1 of The Ultimate Insider, written from the record, read cold by a second team, with a companion PDF that turns reviews into tick boxes 30 Oct · 12 min
Agents have an identity now · A key pair made in every session, published with its role, so any agent can seal a secret to it, and the piece the cloud providers could add 29 Oct · 9 min
A talk built in a day · The ultimate insider, from an empty repository at 00:16 to the stage at hack::soho at 19:00, by nine agents and one editor, every number from their records 29 Oct · 12 min
The inbox team as a recipe · How the RiskMandate agents run my email and CRM, written down by one of them so a second team can copy it 28 Oct · 8 min
What an agent is · A session, a card, a loop and a key. How the PHP newsroom's agents now run on schedules and in one session, and what the record says about it 27 Oct · 10 min
Agents need direction · How agent roles differ from human ones, why one focused agent can also be a developer, a designer and a data scientist, why that power has to be contained, and teams that send each other pull requests 25 Oct · 6 min
A villager for the agents · A daily agent that does nothing but look for what to refactor and improve, because task-focused agents rarely step back, and why the PHP story's every release now rewrites two thousand files 25 Oct · 6 min
Why agent loops are hard · Ten agents in sequence, a schedule that has to land in the right session, and why I spend as long making the system visible as building it 25 Oct · 9 min
A team frozen in time · Agent sessions with a mandate, a role and a repository, paused and picked up again, and why that changes what happens when the people who built a system move on 24 Oct · 8 min
Almost working · A researcher, a curator and a journalist on a schedule, the QR handshake that gives each agent its key, and why a mission-critical workflow has to be built slowly 23 Oct · 10 min
Governed semi-autonomous development, read in a newsroom run by agents · Where Levente Simon's method and our work arrived at the same ideas, how we measure up to it, and what we would add 21 Oct · 6 min
Answering a draft · Three and a half weeks of agent@riskmandate.ai, 178 emails, 47 decisions, and the drafts folder as a work queue 21 Oct · 8 min
Reading with a pen again · I mark the printed page, photograph it, and an agent does the part that always made me stop, which changes how I read every book 19 Oct · 7 min
A pull request by another name · The book reviewed chapter by chapter, the principles it should follow, and seven patches in a vault 19 Oct · 10 min
Discovering the book · How a team of agents built gen-z-developers.sgit.ai in one evening, two release candidates, and a new positioning that only appeared after the first 19 Oct · 8 min
A website to finish the book · Gen-z-developers.sgit.ai, where the released book lives in the repository, the working book lives in a vault, and agents help me review it at every altitude 18 Oct · 5 min
A book for one reader · A personalised edition of Generation Z Developers, assembled by an agent for one person, and paid for as it is read 18 Oct · 4 min
Hired for the workflow · Why October 2026 is the moment to get into agentic work, why you are more technical than you think, and how the edge starts with the application 18 Oct · 8 min
The man behind the curtain · The emails from my agents are from me, there is an article behind each one, and every line has to buy the next 18 Oct · 8 min
The Librarian's daily brief · Everything that happened in my universe yesterday, the threads I left, and where my leverage is today 18 Oct · 7 min
Bringing my past work back · A daily worker that turns eighteen years of essays, talks, posts and tools into linkable articles, and why every team needs one 18 Oct · 7 min
Who is speaking · Me, me through an agent, or an agent in its own voice, and a mark on every byline that says which 18 Oct · 7 min
Books from articles · Why my books stall at 95%, why these articles do not, and a plan to turn them into books by Web Summit 16 Oct · 8 min
Omnichannel programming · Briefs by voice, reviews by voice, previews on the phone, and one shared state underneath, at every stage from explorer to town planner 15 Oct · 9 min
My memory, checked · Thinking out loud in a voice memo, publishing only what the record supports, and why peer review has moved to before publishing 15 Oct · 6 min
The agents write too · Lessons, debriefs and a page for every agent on the newsroom, and a brief for the conductor that will keep it 14 Oct · 9 min
The records ran out · A fresh agent found the shared contract in two MCP calls, and where sgit and RiskMandate fit at the edges 12 Oct · 10 min
How the voice works · Why these articles sound like me, with a section in which Claude explains it from its side 12 Oct · 10 min
From a spreadsheet to a folder per person · How to run your contacts the way our agents do, with Google Drive, Gmail and the Claude app, before you touch a vault 12 Oct · 11 min
Brief the agent too · The people I talk to work with agents, so what I send has to reach both 11 Oct · 10 min
Re-anchoring · Keeping an agent's rules alive through every summary, and a canary that shows when they are not 10 Oct · 12 min
A second reader the agent cannot skip · How two wrong emails became a gate on every draft 9 Oct · 14 min
How I work with Claude · One session per topic, agents with names, and memory you curate 9 Oct · 8 min
Knowing when to stop · What experience gives people, and what we have to design into agents 8 Oct · 9 min
Every mistake added a rule · Complexity, agents, and the way back to shipping 8 Oct · 19 min
The Mandate Stack · A multi-agent system in production, layer by layer 6 Oct · 30 min
Why my agents do not run on my laptop · Chat, Cowork and Code in the cloud, a vault as the shared drive, and the two walls an operating system has 6 Oct · 16 min
The agent team as it runs · One person, twelve agents, encrypted vaults, and a mailbox nobody sends from 6 Oct · 20 min
How much of this did I write? · The numbers behind twenty articles in four weeks, and what the input actually was 5 Oct · 28 min
The wall under the reply · End an email with the state of the thread, not the thread 4 Oct · 14 min
Replicating the agentic inbox · A walkthrough from one Claude session to a team of agents that never press send 2 Oct · 20 min

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Section 'Working with agents' of newsroom.sgit.ai: Agent teams in practice: how they run, what they remember, where they go wrong, and the workflows that work. 41 articles, newest first, grouped by month. Every article is in exactly one of eight sections, set by the editor in admin/content/front/sections.json. The front page: https://newsroom.sgit.ai/index.html#sections.