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Chapter 5 · Intermediate
Agents, skills, and automation
Understand the components, design a first bounded agent, and make recurring work recoverable.
What you will be able to do
Specify tools, permissions, handoffs, and a completion test.
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Prompts, skills, workflows, and agents
Understand the parts before designing an automation.
Build your first agent around a document inventory
Define a small job, limited permissions, and an observable result.
When do multiple agents help?
Assign functional work and preserve a shared source record.
Make recurring work resumable and reviewable
Specify triggers, checkpoints, duplicate handling, and failures.
Maintain project instructions without accumulating clutter
Keep stable rules, changing state, and source material in their proper places.
Choose scripts, models, and human review deliberately
Route work by observable requirements and enforce boundaries outside the prompt.
A useful way to work
Read in order for a gradual introduction, or use an individual lesson as a reference when a question comes up.