Workflow infrastructure
Agent Tooling
The useful agent system is less like a crowd of autonomous workers and more like a disciplined sidecar workflow with clear ownership, evidence, and final review.
Selected evidence
Parallelized Archibot translation review by isolating locale batches in separate worktrees and reducing through checks.
Built and refined terminal/dashboard workflows so agent sessions are easier to inspect, recover, and operate.
Kept the lead/reducer path explicit: sidecars gather evidence, the owner integrates and verifies.
- Slice
- One locale catalog
- Worker
- Bounded sidecar
- Reducer
- Build plus i18n checks
- Policy
- Protected literals
What works
Parallel agents help when the slices are independent: locale catalogs, static audits, log review, narrow tests, source comparison, and bounded patches.
What fails
Shared state, ambiguous product calls, broad refactors, and hidden assumptions turn parallelism into review debt.
The rule
The agent can widen the search. The reducer still owns the answer.