composability

A Twitter thread discussing whether a database filesystem abstraction (PostgresFS) or a skill-based approach with local Bash is better for agent workflows. The skill approach wins on composability and speed.

The tweet discusses the problem of bloat in AI agent harnesses, agreeing with Kaffu's critique that harnesses become "rich man's toys," and advocates for a composable architecture of small, replaceable workers to reduce drift and keep systems cheap and debuggable.

This paper presents a technique for composing data types and functions from independent components, and extends the approach to combine free monads, enabling a modular structuring of Haskell's IO monad.

Matt Pocock asks for feedback on his proposed principles for skills: concise, single-responsibility, composable, progressively disclosed, and harness-agnostic.

Caidan Williams announces an upcoming update to terminal graph, highlighting improved composability.