Your Agent's Behavior Shouldn't Live in Your Codebase
Separating what an agent does from how it runs — and why the declarative pattern keeps winning
Apr 22, 20267 min read1

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Separating what an agent does from how it runs — and why the declarative pattern keeps winning

Tools aren't agent code — they're organizational infrastructure. The sooner teams treat them that way, the sooner agents stop being prototypes.

Why traditional debugging breaks down with AI agents, and what to do instead

The case for declarative agent definitions — and what changes when you separate behavior from implementation

The supervision tax is real. The fix is infrastructure, not better models.

CLI vs. function calling is a serialization debate. The real engineering is in execution boundaries, contracts, and composability.
