Cardiff, UK

The Missing Manual for Working with AI Agents

10 patterns for treating AI agents as collaborators with memory, skills, and autonomous decision-making. Based in Cardiff, available across the UK.

The 10 Patterns

Every pattern comes from real experimentation — discovered through hands-on agent-assisted development.

01

Boot

First session setup. AGENTS.md, environment, initial memory.

02

Skills

Reusable procedural knowledge. Build once, use forever.

03

Memory

Persistent context across sessions. Never re-explain.

04

Decision Protocols

Autonomy without chaos. When to ask, when to decide.

05

Tool Composition

Right tool for each job. Terminal, files, web, delegation.

06

Orchestration

Multi-agent workflows. Parallel streams, specialist agents.

07

Pipelines

Agents that run while you sleep. Cron, builds, monitoring.

08

Resilience

Never-stop loops. Retry with backoff. Self-healing.

09

Verify

Trust but verify. Automated gates + human review.

10

Compounding

Agents that get better. Discoveries → skills → forever.

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