Check Your Understanding: Agents That Do Real Work

Answer from memory first, then check the key. Score one point per question. A score of 4 out of 5 passes. Below that, reread the lessons listed under the key.

Questions

• 1. List the eight parts of an agent design page.
• 2. What is a claim ledger?
• 3. Why does an operations agent start read only?
• 4. Give three rows from an error table.
• 5. When is it fine to review a sample instead of everything?

Answer Key

• 1. Role, goal, inputs, tools, skills, limits, review points, output.
• 2. A table with one row per claim, with a source link, a supporting quote and a check by a person.
• 3. It can't send or change anything while you learn how it behaves, so a mistake or an attack does little harm.
• 4. For example: tool down, stop and report; information missing, ask; low confidence, mark review.
• 5. After weeks of clean results, for low-risk items. Customer-facing and money items stay fully reviewed.

Where to Reread

• Designing an Agent: Role, Inputs, Tools, Limits
• Build a Research Agent
• Build an Operations Agent
• Human Review Points and Error Handling