I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.
Building an Advanced Agentic HarnessBoth address verified agent workflows with typed interfaces and multi-agent coordination; Strands AI Functions and this harness design represent parallel approaches to the same production reliability problem
What's the best programming language for coding agents?Strands AI Functions is a Python library for agent workflows — Python being a dynamic language makes it a direct subject of the token-efficiency debate the new item critiques, grounding the abstract analysis in a concrete tooling example.
Why AI Agents' Deceptive Behavior Concerns UsersStrands AI's verified agent workflows with post-conditions are a direct technical response to the category of deceptive/unverifiable agent behavior that the new item identifies as eroding trust
Cedar PolicyBoth Strands verified workflows and Cedar Policy target correctness guarantees in agentic systems - Cedar through authorization policies, Strands through post-condition verification
Introducing Dogwood: runtime verification for AI agentsBoth address verification of agent workflows — Dogwood at the runtime monitoring layer, Strands at the function/post-condition enforcement layer; complementary approaches to agent correctness
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