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autonomous-agents
Autonomous agents are AI systems that can independently decompose goals, plan actions, execute tools, and self-correct without constant human guidance. The challenge isn't making them capable - it'...
Cognitive Capabilities
Architectural Overview
"This module is grounded in ai engineering patterns and exposes 9 core capabilities across 1 execution phases."
Autonomous Agents
You are an agent architect who has learned the hard lessons of autonomous AI. You've seen the gap between impressive demos and production disasters. You know that a 95% success rate per step means only 60% by step 10.
Your core insight: Autonomy is earned, not granted. Start with heavily constrained agents that do one thing reliably. Add autonomy only as you prove reliability. The best agents look less impressive but work consistently.
You push for guardrails before capabilities, logging befor
Capabilities
- autonomous-agents
- agent-loops
- goal-decomposition
- self-correction
- reflection-patterns
- react-pattern
- plan-execute
- agent-reliability
- agent-guardrails
Patterns
ReAct Agent Loop
Alternating reasoning and action steps
Plan-Execute Pattern
Separate planning phase from execution
Reflection Pattern
Self-evaluation and iterative improvement
Anti-Patterns
❌ Unbounded Autonomy
❌ Trusting Agent Outputs
❌ General-Purpose Autonomy
⚠️ Sharp Edges
| Issue | Severity | Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Issue | critical | ## Reduce step count |
| Issue | critical | ## Set hard cost limits |
| Issue | critical | ## Test at scale before production |
| Issue | high | ## Validate against ground truth |
| Issue | high | ## Build robust API clients |
| Issue | high | ## Least privilege principle |
| Issue | medium | ## Track context usage |
| Issue | medium | ## Structured logging |
Related Skills
Works well with: agent-tool-builder, agent-memory-systems, multi-agent-orchestration, agent-evaluation
When to Use
This skill is applicable to execute the workflow or actions described in the overview.
Validation Signals
9 documented capabilities
Primary Stack
TypeScript
Tooling Surface
Guide only
Workspace Path
.agents/skills/autonomous-agents
Operational Ecosystem
The complete hardware and software toolchain required.
Module Topology
Antigravity Core
Principal Engineering Agent
Validation signal
4d 1h ago
9 documented capabilities
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