Agents

Agents

The agents I run for myself: they brief me, hold me to my week and build things. Each shows what it is for, what it may touch, and how far I trust it yet.

Adoption

How far an agent has made it into how I work, given as a ring, after the Technology Radar. See them on the radar

Adopt
Part of how I work
Trial
Runs for real, on probation
Assess
Being looked at or built, not running regularly
Hold
Stopped or paused

  1. A brief and a style guide, drawn as folded paper, feed a paper robot arm labelled Illustrator that sketches with a pencil beside a checklist. It offers three candidate images, numbered 01 to 03, and an arrow loops back from them to the arm for another round.

    Illustrator

    Draws three on-style images from a short brief; I choose one

    Build · On demand · Adopt

  2. Gmail, Calendar, Todoist and Obsidian, drawn as folded paper, feed a folded-paper machine labelled Morning brief agent, set for Mon–Fri at 08:00. It rolls out one page titled Morning brief, with a calendar, a checkbox and an envelope beside short lines.

    Morning brief

    One short page each morning with what needs me today

    Orient · Scheduled · Adopt

  3. A folded-paper chat bubble labelled Telegram sends a message to Hermes, a running origami messenger with a winged helmet, drawn inside a dashed boundary, and gets a reply. From inside the boundary Hermes reaches three things: Notes, locked with a padlock, To-dos and Remember.

    Hermes

    Answers from my notes and keeps the small to-dos I message it

    Dispatch · On demand · Trial

  4. Seven folded-paper day cards, Mon to Sun, and a pinned card labelled Monday’s focus feed a folded-paper balance scale labelled Weekly reckoning, set for Sat at 08:00. It weighs the week against the focus and puts out a page titled Verdict, with Partly aligned ticked between Aligned and Drifting.

    Weekly reckoning

    Tells me plainly whether my week served the focus I set

    Orient · Scheduled · Trial

  5. A folded-paper card labelled Request passes a gate with a checkmark labelled Approve into a paper workshop, where an origami robot with a code mark on its chest types code at a laptop, labelled Hermes coder. Out comes a sheet titled Pull request with a short diff, then a card with an empty checkbox labelled Review.

    Hermes coder

    Turns a request into a pull request I review before it lands

    Build · On demand · Assess