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Your Inbox Is an API Now: Designing Work for Agent Readers
Agents don't click, they parse. Here's how to name, thread, permission and store your work so AI agents in the workplace can actually use it.
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Your AI Agent Runs on Someone Else's OAuth Token
Most "agents" in production aren't code — they're SaaS workflows running on a human's inherited permissions. Here's why that's a governance gap, and how to close it.
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Onboarding an AI Agent Like a New Hire: A Practical Playbook
Agents aren't magic buttons. Give them a scoped role, a 30-day ramp, real feedback loops, and review cycles — the same things you'd give a competent new teammate.
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RAG Is Not a Search Bar: Retrieval That Actually Works
Most RAG setups fail because they staple a vector store to a chatbot. Real retrieval needs hybrid search, freshness, permissions-aware filtering, and honest evaluation.
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The AWS of Agents Doesn't Exist Yet. Here's What's Missing
Everyone's building orchestration primitives for agents. The actual missing layer is a permissioned, agent-readable workspace where email, files, docs and calendar share one identity and one audit trail.
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Prompt Injection Lives in Your Attachments, Not Your Chat
The real attack surface for AI agents isn't a clever chat jailbreak — it's the forwarded email, shared sheet, or PDF your agent reads with your permissions.
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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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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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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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