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LLM agents and tool use

not yet earned

I can choose between a workflow and an agent and justify it, sandbox what a model is allowed to touch, and measure multi-step reliability rather than assert it.

What this claim costs

  • 5 assessed items at tier 2 or above0 of 5 — 5 more to do, from 21 available
  • A public artifact built for this claim — agent-vs-workflowNot built yet
  • A documented negative result — where this stops workingNothing recorded. A capability with no known failure boundary has not been explored.
  • Defended aloud, against questions you did not write1 available, none done
  • Recalled cold, a week later, without notes6 scheduled, none done

The proof

agent-vs-workflow

One stage of a working deterministic pipeline rebuilt as an autonomous agent, with the cost, latency and reliability of both measured side by side.

What it has to contain

  • One working deterministic pipeline stage rebuilt as an autonomous agent
  • Cost, latency and multi-step reliability measured for both
  • The sandbox boundary stated: what the model may and may not touch
  • A verdict on workflow versus agent, with the conditions that would flip it

Where it stops working. Not established yet. Anyone can ship a demo; the boundary is the part that is worth reading, so this claim is not earned until it is written down.

Skills underneath

  • Planning and decomposition
  • Orchestration patterns
  • Multi-step reliability
  • Sandboxing and least privilege
  • Evaluating agents
  • Multi-agent systems

21 assessed items across the specified courses evidence these, 0 done.