Summary This post covers some techniques to get agents to verify their work. We’ll cover why this is important and a variety of types of checks you can employ, and mechanisms to enforce them. The verification shift There’s been a recent emphasis on giving agents tools to verify
Claude 2.1.19 introduced a new Task system to replace the Todo related tools. Todo’s were how Claude tracked work that needed to happen to accomplish some larger plan. The post from Anthropic explains the motivations in detail but in summary: * Tasks can have dependencies * Tasks run in
The “Ralph” loop, created by Geoffrey Huntley took off in the AI Developer community in January 2026. These are my notes to try and understand how ralph works and why it is useful for long running AI tasks. A summary: * The ralph loop is a way to mitigate context rot