@zodchiii: A Stanford team just published the 16-page PDF on “How to structure an AI agent” Structure matters more than how you pr…
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A Stanford team published a 16-page PDF on structuring AI agents, emphasizing structured context over one-off prompts, with a Build → Reflect → Curate → Reuse methodology backed by empirical results.
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A Stanford team just published the 16-page PDF on “How to structure an AI agent”
Structure matters more than how you prompt it, and it’s backed by hard numbers.
Build → Reflect → Curate → Reuse
• Build: the agent starts with a structured context, not a clever one-off prompt.
• Reflect: it watches what actually worked during execution, no labels needed.
• Curate: it folds those wins into an evolving playbook instead of a static prompt.
• Reuse: the next run starts from that refined structure, getting stronger each time.
This is exactly why senior engineers build the structure first in Claude Code, then let the agent run.
Read the paper, then grab the setup below
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