ART-08
Jun 2026
Architecture
The Shape of Agentic Systems
Most agent failures are not model failures — they are shape failures. A taxonomy of the loops, hierarchies and graphs that actually work in production.
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Long-form essays and architecture breakdowns. Written in a documentation style — short on rhetoric, long on diagrams, named patterns and explicit tradeoffs.
Most agent failures are not model failures — they are shape failures. A taxonomy of the loops, hierarchies and graphs that actually work in production.
Agent capability is mostly a function of memory design. A breakdown of working, episodic, semantic and procedural memory in practice.
Why most RAG systems plateau, and the retrieval-side investments that actually move the quality curve.
Treating evaluation as a first-class system — datasets, judges, traces, regressions and the discipline of continuous quality.
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