Operating a Fleet
of Coding Agents

An agent with shell access is not an assistant — it is an untrusted workload with production access. The book is the whole argument; this sheet is the whole roll, 28,696 words at one glance.

  1. 00Preface536 wstart here
  2. 01The Untrusted Workload1,931 w
  3. 02The Map and the Territory1,963 w
  4. 03The Guard That Enumerates Loses2,894 w
  5. 04The Dossier Was Already Wrong1,806 w
  6. 05The Measurement That Lied2,238 w
  7. 06The Flywheel2,639 w
  8. 07The Control Plane1,888 w
  9. 08Two Harnesses, One Floor1,353 w
  10. 09Peers, Not Owners1,794 w
  11. 10The Knowledge Substrate1,352 w
  12. 11Context Is the Budget1,510 w
  13. 12The Auditor Audits Itself2,098 w
  14. 13Proof You Can Hand a Stranger1,857 w
  15. 14The Operator's Artifact1,911 w
  16. E1Afterword570 w
  17. E2Colophon356 w