Your Agent's Prompts Are Source Code Now: Why Self-Improvement Needs a PR Gate
Moving agent behavioral artifacts into versioned files with pull-request review is the only path to autonomous self-improvement that does not quietly degrade, which means the bottleneck of agent evolution shifts from model capability to human review throughput.
AngleArgue that diffability, authorship, and rollback matter more than the cleverness of the outer-loop agent, then quantify where the review gate breaks.
Source video ↗Procedural and Declarative Memory Are Different Subsystems, and Conflating Them Breaks Both
Skills and fact stores must be split because the correct update mechanism differs categorically: procedures want code review, facts want versioning and eviction policy, and any single memory blob serves neither well.
AngleTake the procedural/declarative axis as the primary design split for long-term agent state, and show where a merged store fails on both retrieval and validation.
Source video ↗Memory Is an ETL Pipeline, Not a Scratchpad
Writing memory inside the agent run is the wrong default; background extraction over completed session traces keeps memory curated and keeps in-run context and tokens spent on the actual task.
AngleReframe memory maintenance as asynchronous data engineering with scope keys, versioning, and contamination monitoring rather than a runtime concern.
Source video ↗The Execution Plane and the Improvement Plane: A Two-Plane Model for Agent Systems
Splitting agent systems into an execution plane and a separate improvement plane that consumes execution telemetry as its input dataset is a more useful organizing abstraction than in-context self-critique, because it makes improvement asynchronous, inspectable, and testable.
AnglePresent the two-plane decomposition as a design pattern, with the improvement plane's input dataset, mutation surface, and gate as its defining parameters.
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