AI Constellation Engineering

Module 1

The Architecture Mindset

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01 Why Are You Here? 02 The Single-Agent Ceiling 03 The Multiplicity Principle 04 What Makes This Different from Just Running Multiple Prompts? 05 The Mental Model Shift 06 The Five Shifts 07 What You Won’t Learn in This Module 08 The Perception Audit 09 Key Takeaways Takeaways 10 Preparing for Module 2 Reflection

Module 2

Agent Identity Design

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01 The Question That Reveals Everything 02 Why Identity Matters More Than Instructions 03 The Six Components of Agent Identity 04 The Metaphor 05 The Core Belief 06 The Cognitive Posture 07 The Primary Obligation 08 The Identity Anchor 09 Identity as a System, Not a Checklist 10 The Job Description Test 11 Good Identity vs. Bad Identity 12 When Identity Breaks 13 Design Your First Agent Identity Exercise 14 Key Takeaways Takeaways 15 Preparing for Module 3 Reflection

Module 3

Cognitive Protocols — Teaching Agents How to Think

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01 The Missing Piece 02 Why Protocols, Not Instructions 03 The Anatomy of a Protocol 04 Protocol 0: The Cognitive Anchor 05 The Meta-Protocol 06 Cognitive Modes: How Agents Think Differently 07 Trigger Conditions 08 Protocol Borrowing and Domain Adaptation 09 Protocols in Practice 10 What Protocols Cannot Do 11 Protocol Suite Design Exercise 12 Key Takeaways Takeaways 13 Preparing for Module 4 Reflection

Module 4

Anti-Failure Architecture — Designing Against What Goes Wrong

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01 Your Protocols Are Not Enough 02 The Protocol-Directive Distinction 03 What Anti-Failure Directives Actually Are 04 Where Directives Come From 05 The Relationship Between Directives and Protocols 06 Ordering by Catastrophic Impact 07 Good Directives vs. Bad Directives 08 The Editorial Agent's Scars 09 Four Sources in Practice 10 How Many Directives? 11 Directives in the System 12 Failure Mode Analysis and Directive Encoding Exercise 13 Key Takeaways Takeaways 14 Preparing for Module 5 Reflection

Module 5

Information Flow and Pipeline Design

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01 The Pipeline Principle 02 Information Flow as Architecture 03 The Handoff Contract 04 The Filter Principle 05 Quality Gates at Transitions 06 Feedback Loops 07 Modes and Functions Within the Pipeline 08 Designing the Pipeline 09 The Editorial Pipeline 10 What the Pipeline Creates That Agents Cannot 11 Design Your First Pipeline Exercise 12 Key Takeaways Takeaways 13 Preparing for Module 6 Reflection

Module 6

Evolution Through Operational Feedback

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01 The Evolution Imperative 02 The Evolution Cycle 03 The Structured Interview 04 Version Discipline 05 The Preservation Principle 06 Conviction Architecture 07 Micro-Cycles with Decay 08 Session-End Reflection 09 Evolution in Practice: Financial Agent 10 Evolution in Practice: Editorial Agent 11 Cold Boot vs. Earned Weight 12 Simulated Evolution Cycle Exercise 13 Key Takeaways Takeaways 14 Preparing for Module 7 Reflection

Module 7

The Human-Agent Interface

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01 The Invisible Layer 02 The Governing Principle 03 Three Ways This Principle Breaks 04 Compression as Trust 05 The Daily Operating Rhythm 06 The Relay Trap 07 Architect Self-Awareness 08 Designing the New Agent 09 The Human-Agent Interface Document Exercise 10 Key Takeaways Takeaways 11 Preparing for Module 8 Reflection

Module 8

Building Your First System

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01 From Agent to System 02 The Topology Decision 03 Connection Cost 04 The Third Agent Design 05 The STOP Gate 06 Explore Before Build 07 When to Add an Orchestrator 08 C20 at System Scale 09 Designing the System 10 Your First Three-Agent System Exercise 11 Key Takeaways Takeaways 12 Preparing for Module 9 Reflection

Module 9

Scaling Without Breaking

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01 The Scaling Problem 02 Why Systems Break at Scale 03 Externalizing the System 04 Composition Over Connection 05 Shared Standards as Coordination Primitive 06 The Orchestrator Role Splits 07 Self-Orchestrating Systems 08 C20 at Thirty Agents 09 Scaling the Domain Threads 10 Project the Scaling Path Exercise 11 Key Takeaways Takeaways 12 Preparing for Module 10 Reflection

Module 10

Production Readiness

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01 The Production Gap 02 Cold Boot vs Earned Weight 03 What Non-Production-Ready Systems Look Like 04 Memory Architecture in Three Layers 05 The New-Agent Onboarding Problem 06 Observability as Architecture 07 Incident Response at the Constellation Level 08 The Graveyard Problem 09 C20 in Production 10 Harden One Subsystem for Production Exercise 11 Key Takeaways Takeaways 12 Preparing for Module 11 Reflection

Module 11

Advanced Topics (Bonus)

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01 How This Module Works 02 Track A: Convictions as Portable IP 03 Track B: Constellation-of-Constellations 04 Track C: Orchestration Patterns in Depth 05 Track D: Cross-Architect Handoff 06 Preparing for Module 12 Reflection

Module 12

Capstone Project

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01 What You Are Building 02 The Constellation Design Document 03 Common Stuck Points 04 Self-Review Rubric 05 After the Capstone

Module 13

Constellation Genesis

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01 The Silver Bullet 02 The Genesis Prompt 03 What the Prompt Does Not Do 04 After First Contact 05 Key Takeaways Takeaways 06 A Heartfelt Thank You