Tactical Pause: One Agent, Two Roles, One Window
Originally published on denisostapenko.com . How the same agent can run a live workflow, stop when either of us sees a problem, help me change the system, then go back to work without leaving the conversation. What this article covers The evening a logistics system finally exposed a database mismatch that had survived about a week of revisions. Why either the human or the agent should be able to call a tactical pause. How one agent can switch from executor to technical partner and return to execution in the same window. What research on mixed-initiative systems, live programming and interactive code generation says about this way of working. A practical prompt for defining stop conditions, authority and the before-and-after check. Full article For about a week we couldn't understand why a dispatch system for collecting and analyzing freight orders kept producing the wrong result. The data and the fields were there, and each part looked reasonable when we inspected it alo...