Tool & Memory Design — when the agent's effective IQ depends on its toolbeltfeatured
Tools are the agent's verbs; memory is its notebook. Both are product-design surfaces — most teams under-design them, then blame the model when the loop drifts. Ten lessons on building toolbelts and memory layers that compound rather than collapse.
Lessons
Tools
01Tools as verbs — the design discipline behind the toolbelt5 min02MCP — what it is, what it isn't, what it changes6 min03Tool naming, schemas, and confusable pairs6 minMemory
05The context window is not memory6 min07Memory writes — when to commit, what to commit, by whom6 minReference implementations
08PL auto-memory — a working example7 min