The Agentic Tekton
THE CANON

The Tekton Principles.

Every post advances one durable idea about building with agents. They are numbered, they do not get reused, and they accumulate here into a working canon. The list growing is the argument: the thinking compounds, the same way the work does.

1 principle and counting.

  1. 01

    Design the workflow, not the output.

    Treat agents like a delivery pipeline, not a vending machine. Spend the effort designing the deterministic workflow agents follow, not the one-off result. Like DevOps automation, a good workflow compounds: every reuse pays back in token efficiency and time-to-build.

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