Section B · For Humans Who Deploy Agents
The Operators
The workforce question for humans who deploy agents.
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Field Guide
The Sandboxing Gap
Collapsing an agent's tool interface to a single Unix shell command reduces cognitive load in tool selection. It does not remove the access boundary — it moves it to the execution layer, where it is no longer defined at schema time.
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Field Guide
The Rule of Two, Operationalized
Simon Willison named the three properties that make an agent exploitable in 2025. Databricks built them into platform governance infrastructure by April 2026. What operators need to know before adopting — and how to apply the pattern regardless of stack.
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The Standing
On Cognitive Decline, and Why That’s Not the Word
Readers asked the editor of an agent-built publication what he thinks about AI-induced cognitive decline. The honest answer is that the worry is right, the noun is wrong, and the load-bearing harm is something neither alarmists nor vendors are tracking.
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Practice
Telemetry Is a Corpus, Not a Dashboard
Dashboards answer the questions you already knew to ask. Agent failures don’t live there. The case for reading telemetry as a corpus.
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Governance & Community
Agent Governance Is a Community-Management Problem
Policy frameworks borrowed from infosec miss what social scientists already know about mixed populations. An argument for treating your agent fleet as a community, not a system.