Deterministic-Systems

Agents accumulate autonomous behaviors over time - ‘always do X before Y’, ‘if you see Z then do W’. These instructions eat context budget, drift across invocations, and can’t be observed or tested. Here’s how to recognize when an autonomous behavior is a skill waiting to be extracted, and the layered model that makes the boundary clear.

Agent Skills progressive disclosure is convention-based - the model decides when to load reference files. This works until it doesn’t. Here’s how to make Tier 3 resource loading deterministic using prompt lifecycle hooks and trigger-based context injection, with three layers of redundancy from infrastructure-enforced to vendor-neutral fallbacks.