Field manual
Self-assessment Answer yes or no. Count a yes only if you could show the evidence today. Each no points at the part of the field manual that fixes it. Score yourself now, and again after you have worked through the parts.
1 Can you split one run's tokens into context construction and reasoning? Yes No If no, read part 1
2 Does code, not the model, reduce a stack trace before it reaches the window? Yes No If no, read part 2
3 Are file paths and symbols in a prompt resolved against an index before the first model call? Yes No If no, read part 3 and 4
4 Does a new run start from stored knowledge of the repository? Yes No If no, read part 5
5 Can every standing instruction fail a check in CI? Yes No If no, read part 6
6 Does every context assembler take a token budget? Yes No If no, read part 7
7 Does the agent see the live schema, with lineage, before it writes a migration? Yes No If no, read part 8
8 Is control flow between steps written as code? Yes No If no, read part 9
9 Can you look up the tests that cover a function? Yes No If no, read part 10
10 Does old content leave the window by policy? Yes No If no, read part 11
11 Can you answer a three-hop question about your system with one query? Yes No If no, read part 12
12 Do you report cost per completed task, including retries? Yes No If no, read part 13
13 Can you list every agent that can write to a system, with a named operator for each? Yes No If no, read part 14
14 Is each agent's authority, budget, and equipment written in one reviewed place? Yes No If no, read part 15
15 For a given write action, can you name the rule that allowed it and its author? Yes No If no, read part 16
16 Can you attribute last month's spend to the agent, the run, and the person? Yes No If no, read part 17
17 Do you know how many tools each agent is offered, and how many it calls? Yes No If no, read part 18
18 Could someone outside your team reconstruct one agent action in 30 minutes? Yes No If no, read part 19
19 Are completion checks for bounded tasks fixed before the run starts? Yes No If no, read part 20
20 Does each ongoing agent have a review date on a calendar? Yes No If no, read part 20
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