The outcome
Create an agentic scenario that can handle variable requests without receiving unnecessary authority or data.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Choose a low-risk task that genuinely needs judgment, define success and refusal cases, and keep deterministic work in standard scenarios.
- 02
Create the agent with a focused role, ordered instructions, input and output examples, data boundaries, and rules for uncertainty and escalation.
- 03
Add only approved knowledge files, remove secrets and stale material, and document the owner and refresh date for every source.
- 04
Attach narrowly scoped module, scenario, or MCP tools with precise names, schemas, permissions, and confirmation requirements for consequential actions.
- 05
Test routine, ambiguous, adversarial, and tool-failure cases in a non-production team, inspect reasoning and outputs, then version the accepted configuration.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Use agents only when judgment is required.
- Give each tool the minimum authority.
- Test refusals and failures before activation.
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