Principles for Agentic Operations
Short enough to remember, precise enough to disagree with. 1. Observation is the primary operation Action follows observation; it never precedes it. A system that acts without first observing is blind, regardless of how sophisticated its declaration layer is. 2. Scaffolding is removable. Principles are not Autonomy, locality of knowledge, voluntary commitment, evidence over authority. These survive every tool generation. Sprint ceremonies, state files, approval queues, and required reviewers are scaffolding. The work is knowing which is which. ...