LLMs are Terrible Backends: Forcing Strict JSON Output
When you use LLMs as API endpoints, their probabilistic nature breaks downstream systems. Here is how to enforce strict JSON output through grammar-constrained generation and structured outputs.
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Handling Context Window Limits in Multi-Agent Loops
Architectural patterns for summarizing, pruning, and passing context between collaborative subagents without hitting OOM errors.
State Management in LangGraph: Checkpointing and Time Travel
How to handle complex agent states, pause execution, and debug multi-agent loops via LangGraph checkpointers and time travel.
The Human-as-Orchestrator: Evolving HITL
Designing systems where humans provide strategic intent and override at checkpoints.
The A2A Protocol: Standardizing Handoffs Between Heterogeneous Agents
How the A2A standard allows multi-vendor agents to discover, negotiate, and delegate tasks safely.
Context Bloat: Implementing Progressive Discovery in Agent Memory
Using progressive discovery and smart tool-search to keep agents lean. Learn how to prevent context window overflow and infinite reasoning loops in multi-agent systems.
Agent FinOps: Architecting Economic Constraints into LLM Routing
We built autonomous agents that can think, reason, and execute. Now we need to stop them from bankrupting us. Here is how to build economic constraints directly into your LangGraph loops.
The Infinite Board Problem: Pruning State in Long-Running Reasoning Loops
How to manage the shared state size in complex reasoning loops to prevent context window overflow without losing critical history.
CopilotKit vs A2UI: Client-Side Rendering in Generative UI
Compare Generative UI patterns for browser-based, client-side rendering. Learn when to use declarative CopilotKit structures versus the open-ended A2UI protocol.
The Supervisor vs. Swarm Debate: Routing in Multi-Agent Systems
An organic, decentralized mesh of democratic agents reads brilliantly in an academic paper. But in enterprise production, democratic agents lead to infinite loops and massive API bills.
Measuring Tool Use Correctness & Plan Adherence
Deep dive into measuring tool use correctness & plan adherence.
How to Use Silero VAD: Real-Time Voice Activity Detection in Python
How to use Silero VAD for real-time voice activity detection: build a Python audio pipeline with `from silero_vad import load_silero_vad`, endpointing, and barge-in handling.
A2A Architectures: Tools are not just Functions (The Two-Phase Commit)
Why Agent-to-Agent (A2A) interactions and Side Effects require a 'Two-Phase Commit' for safety.
The Blackboard Architecture: Solving the Agent 'Phone Game'
Chains are brittle. We need a shared state object for robust multi-agent reasoning.
LLMs are Terrible Backends (Unless You Force JSON)
Non-determinism is a bug, not a feature. We explore how to whip the model into compliance using Enforcers, Pydantic, and Constrained Generation.
Gemini CLI Hooks: Automating Agentic Developer Workflows
Gemini CLI hooks enable developers to seamlessly automate codebase context injection and build self-correcting ReAct loops without manual copy-pasting.
MCP: The End of the API Wrapper
We analyze the JSON-RPC internals of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and why the 'Context Exchange' architecture renders traditional integration code obsolete.
Agentic SDLC: The Complete Framework for Autonomous Software Teams
An Agentic SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) transforms how you architect autonomous workflows. Learn to build secure execution sandboxes and integrate multi-agent validation loops safely.