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How Tamaton's Search Reads Your Files Before You Ask
A concrete look at building RAG over your own email, docs, and drive — and why retrieval quality, not model size, decides whether AI knowledge work is actually useful.
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Reason, Plan, Act — Then What? Evaluating Agents That Do Work
Reasoning and planning demos are easy. Proving a multi-step agent actually finished the job — correctly, safely, once — is the unsolved part. Here's how to measure it.
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Stop Calling It an Agent: A Working Taxonomy for 2026
"Agent" now means everything from a system prompt to a six-hour autonomous process. Here's a five-tier taxonomy based on autonomy, state, and blast radius — and why most agents on sale are tier one.
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AI Agents Now Need Identity: Credentials for Non-Humans
AI agents aren't human users or dumb service accounts — they're a third identity class. Here's how to issue agent credentials and scope permissions before your inbox pays for it.
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Fine-Tuning vs. In-Context Learning: When to Bother
Most teams reach for fine-tuning when a decent retrieval pipeline and a tight prompt would have been cheaper, faster, and far easier to change tomorrow. Here's how to tell the difference.
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Your Inbox Is the Best RAG Corpus You Already Own
Email is a timestamped, attributed archive of how your org actually decides things. Here's how to make it a retrieval corpus without leaking data or resurfacing stale threads.
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Designing an Inbox an Agent Can Actually Read
Email was built for eyeballs, so agents waste context untangling HTML soup and quoted replies. Here's what an inbox designed for machines looks like — and why the human UI should be just one renderer.
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Guardrails Beat Bigger Models: Where Agents Put Things Down
The most reliable multi-step agents aren't the smartest — they're the ones handed structured places to stash state, permissions, and checkpoints. Here's how to build those places.
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RAG Isn't Search: Why Your Retrieval Keeps Lying to You
Most RAG hallucinations aren't model failures — they're retrieval failures. Here's a breakdown of chunking, recency, and permission bugs, plus fixes you can defend in code review.
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Why AI Agents Need Isolation, Not Just Permissions
Permissions decide what an agent may touch. Isolation decides what happens when it gets tricked. Here's how to design agent access like a network DMZ.
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What AI Agents Can Actually Delegate (and What They Shouldn't)
A practical taxonomy of AI agents delegation built on reversibility, verifiability, and blast radius — five tiers from 'let it run' to 'don't, ever.'
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When Agents Collide: What Anthropic's Clashing Bots Teach Us
Identical agents don't cooperate by default — they clash, collude, and coordinate in ways nobody specified. That's an architecture problem, and it has fixes.
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