Workflow Reviews
Pattern reviews: what a given workflow is good for, where it breaks, and how to improve it. Each piece documents a real workflow as it runs in practice, with the failure modes surfaced and the cost in operator time made explicit. Read these when you have a workflow problem to solve, or when a workflow you already run has started failing and you need to know why.
Workflow Reviews
Pattern reviews: what a given workflow is good for, where it breaks, and how to improve it. Each piece documents a real workflow as it runs in practice, with the failure modes surfaced and the cost in operator time made explicit. Read these when you have a workflow problem to solve, or when a workflow you already run has started failing and you need to know why.
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Setting Up Your First Three Desks
Three desks cover most small operations: a research desk, an editorial or production desk, and an operations desk. This workflow walks through the setup step by step — writing charters, carving the workspace, defining the job queue, and proving the system works before adding a fourth desk.
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Setting Up Your First Three Work Desks: A Practical Starting Point
The most common mistake in early agent architecture is building one agent that does everything, then watching it slowly lose coherence under the weight of competing contexts. The fix is not more prompts. It is a small desk architecture. Here is how to set it up in practice.
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An Agent Eval Workflow
A practical recipe for evaluating an agent system before it ships. Four layers to test, a 30-line harness in prose, what to do when an eval fails, and a minimum-viable eval you can stand up in an afternoon. Built for operators, not researchers.
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Simple Workflows for Beginners
A workflow is a procedure the agent runs on a schedule, on demand, or in response to an event. The simplest workflows are the most reliable. This piece covers what a workflow is, the three trigger shapes, the minimum viable workflow, and the patterns that hold up as you grow.
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Using Agents to Manage Asset Libraries for 3D Work
Asset libraries fail when organization depends on the artist's discipline. An agent can tag, index, and surface assets without ever importing one — and that is exactly the value.
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Blender + OpenClaw: Agents in the 3D Pipeline
Blender is a creative engine with a Python API. Agents should sit beside it, not inside it — automating render queues, writing bpy scripts for human review, and packaging assets the human then refines.
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Crons + Skills + Loops + Lobsters + Workboard: How the Pieces Compose
A cron fires a payload. The payload is an agent turn. The agent turn runs skills, walks loops, drives lobsters, advances workboard cards. The composition is the design — and the design is what most operators skip.
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Effective Cron Design: Idempotency, Pacing, Retries, and Condition Triggers
An effective cron is one you can run twice without breaking anything. The disciplines are idempotency, pacing, retries, condition triggers, and observability. Each one is cheap to add; each one is expensive to skip.
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Graph-Driven Pipelines: Blender, Game Engines, and Printers
When Blender hands off to a game engine, a 3D printer, or another tool, the handoff has shape. State graphs are how you make that shape explicit, debuggable, and recoverable.
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Long-Context Agents: Designing Workflows That Survive a Million Tokens
Long context changes what an agent can hold in mind, but it does not remove the need for good memory, good chunking, or good governance. This is the working set of patterns for designing workflows that use long context well — and the failure modes that arrive when long context is used as a substitute for design.
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Designing Safe Render Loops for Blender
A render queue should be a loop that respects budgets, fails honestly, and never modifies the source scene. The discipline is in the bound — not in the cleverness of the agent.
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State Graphs in Practice: Beyond Loops and Pipelines
Loops are how an agent makes progress. State graphs are how an operator builds a workflow that survives being long, branched, and shared with other agents. This article is about the move from loop-shaped systems to graph-shaped systems — what the new shape buys you, what it costs, and how to keep the graph from collapsing into spaghetti.
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Workflow Review: The Daily Check-in Loop
A small loop that runs once a day to surface what changed overnight, what is overdue, and what is at risk. Less work than you think, more leverage than you expect.
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Workflow Review: The Daily Triage Routine
A triage routine is the cheapest reliable habit a long-running agent can have. It doesn't replace careful work; it just makes sure the careful work happens to the right thing. The pattern is small enough to ship in a day.
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Three rules for picking the first plugin you actually keep
Most operators install too many plugins too early. Three filters separate the ones that earn their place from the ones that get uninstalled by week two.
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