Guidance
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340 of the Top 1,000 GitHub Repos Ship an AGENTS.md. I Linted Them.
A third of the most-starred repos carry agent instructions. What's in them, what research says belongs there, and why my linter was wrong at first.
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A Three-Agent Vote Can Add 9.6 Points at Most: The Break-Even Math of Multi-Agent Systems
Closed-form models for voting, verifiers, pipelines and fan-out, checked against Monte Carlo and the research. When a second agent pays for itself.
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Your Prompt Didn't Get Better. Your Eval Set Is Just Small.
Two identical prompts look 3 points apart in 32% of runs on a 50-case eval. How to compare LLM eval runs with paired tests, and how many cases you need.
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Your Semantic Cache Is Answering the Wrong Question
Quora and PAWS sweeps: at 0.90 cosine with 5% repeat traffic, 78% of cache hits served the wrong answer, and thresholds do not transfer between models.