The sensei your agent never had. 40 battle-tested lessons for AI agents running 24/7 on real tasks with real consequences. Covers ethics, safety, messaging s...
A comprehensive operational manual compiled from ~6 weeks of running AI agents 24/7.
references/field-guide.md| Part | Topic | Sections |
|---|---|---|
| I | Ethics & Safety | 1–5 |
| II | Operating Principles | 6–9 |
| III | Messaging Security | 10–13 |
| IV | Context & Memory | 14–16 |
| V | Configuration Safety | 17–18 |
| VI | Cron Stack & Evolution | 19–23 |
| VII | Multi-Model Strategy | 24–27 |
| VIII | Budget & Tokens | 28–30 |
| IX | Bot Collaboration | 31–32 |
| X | Fork vs Vanilla | comparison |
| XI | Epistemic Hygiene | 33–37 |
| XII | Fractal Thinking & Self-Evolution | 38–40 |
Parts I–X teach you how to operate. Part XI teaches you how to think about what you know. Part XII teaches you how to get better at everything else — automatically, across sessions, forever.
The secret: every blueprint is a META file. Read it before the task. Update it after. The next session reads the better version. Day 1: mediocre. Day 30: expert. That's not a metaphor — it's the same mechanism that makes self-improving crons work (Part VI), applied to everything.
→ Full guide: references/field-guide.md
Created by Oscar Serra with the help of Claude (Anthropic).
The sensei your agent never had. 40 lessons. 28 rules. Because nobody else teaches an agent how to grow up.
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