Users trusted the system more once they could see the plan, interrupt execution, and approve consequential steps. What control made your agent feel dependable?

A large tool catalog creates selection failures and confusing permissions. Have routing agents, scoped toolsets, or progressive discovery worked better for you?

Remembering everything is not intelligence. What should be summarized, confirmed, forgotten, or kept only for one task?

Repeated searches, self-reviews, retries, and tool calls can look productive while going nowhere. Which guardrail finally made the failure obvious?

Reading ten files may be harmless while sending one message is consequential. How are you classifying actions and choosing approval boundaries?