David Hurley

Agents need more than a better model.

An agent can reason through a hard problem and still use the wrong document, trust an old answer, or act past its authority. The failure is often everything around the model.

Cumulative Systems, Pantasso, and Plasmate answer one question: what has to exist beneath an agent before I would trust it with real work?

Three systems

  • Cumulative Systems

    Cumulative Systems saves a model's own internal working state and reloads it directly, so the work continues instead of starting over. State can move between different models.

  • Pantasso

    Pantasso turns approved chats, documents, files, and business systems into cited answers, canonical records, honest gaps, and scoped access.

  • Plasmate

    Plasmate compiles pages into a Semantic Object Model so agents can work with structure, intent, and affordances instead of raw HTML and pixels.

What trust requires

  • Show the source. An answer should point back to where it came from, and say so when the evidence is missing.
  • Prove the shortcut. A faster path has to earn its place. Until then, keep the live model available.
  • Keep a way back. Risky actions need a boundary, a record of what happened, and a way to recover.

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