Practical Application

Use a blank-slate rebuild to improve a bloated agent setup:

1. Remove the accumulated skills, plugins, servers, and large instruction files from the active

setup.

1. Observe the agent in its basic mode. Identify what it already does well and where it actually

fails.

1. Reintroduce only capabilities that solve an observed problem. Do not reinstall a tool merely

because it was previously present.

1. Prefer user-invoked procedures for strategic workflows. Keep the human responsible for deciding

when to brainstorm, clarify, plan, create requirements, split tasks, or review.

1. Use automatic abilities selectively. They are most defensible when the agent needs a narrow rule

at the moment of implementation, such as a coding convention.

1. Install skills in a form that can be edited. Experiment with their wording and behavior instead

of treating them as fixed products.

1. Maintain shared procedures as team assets. Let engineers contribute improvements when a procedure

misses an edge case or creates unnecessary work.

A practical sequence might be: invoke an adversarial interview, produce a requirements document from the resolved decisions, convert that document into scoped issues, and then assign selected issues to implementation agents.