PROJECT FIVE - MULTI-AGENT AND PRODUCTION HARDENING

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING • Why does the writer receive only a small dictionary and not the resume text? ◦ Answer: Because the writer needs only the structured result to write the report, and extra material would clutter its context and could carry hidden instructions to it. • What does exponential backoff mean, and why is it polite? ◦ Answer: It means doubling the wait after each failed attempt, which gives a struggling service room to recover instead of hammering it with instant retries. • What happens in the lab when the search tool is switched off? ◦ Answer: The matcher retries four times with growing waits, then stops with tool_unavailable, and the supervisor halts the batch and reports the failure. • Why is it valuable that the checklist lists Partial and Missing items? ◦ Answer: Because written gaps become a work list, while hidden gaps become incidents. • Which layer does the permission gate belong to, and which layer does the eval set belong to? ◦ Answer: The permission gate belongs to Governance and the eval set belongs to Verification. PART SEVENTEEN: THE PROFESSION, ETHICS, AND THE CERTIFICATION PATH You have learned the ideas and built the lab. Part Seventeen steps back and asks a different set of questions. What does an AI Harness Engineer actually do all week? How does the work fit with the people around you? What do you owe to the people your systems touch? And how do you prove what you know? These chapters are shorter on code and longer on judgment, because judgment is what separates a person who can follow a recipe from a professional who can be trusted with a kitchen.