Plain-English guides to AI at work.
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Working with your agent
6 guides in this topic.
How to get the best out of an AI agent
AI agents fall short for the same reasons new staff do: a vague brief, no examples and nobody checking in month one. How to brief, limit and improve yours.
Part 2 of 3 · 7 min read
Your first week with an AI agent, day by day
What we set up for you before day one, the small part you do yourself, then seven short daily sessions that make a new AI agent useful by the end of week one.
6 min read
How AI agent memory works, and how to keep it accurate
What an AI agent saves about you, what it misses, where those notes are stored, and the habits that stop it repeating something that's no longer true.
6 min read
AI agent scheduled tasks: morning plans and weekly recaps
How to set up AI agent scheduled tasks you'll read: three check-ins that work, how to word the instruction, and why most scheduled messages get ignored.
6 min read
What agent skills are, and how your agent learns new ones
What agent skills are, what's inside one, how they differ from prompts, how agents write their own, and how to tell when a task deserves a skill.
6 min read
How to correct an AI agent so the fix sticks
How to correct an AI agent so the same mistake stops coming back: when to edit, how to word a rule it keeps, what to change when rules fail, and when to stop.
5 min read
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