The offer is a bounded written audit, not a retainer. You send the current stack and the job the agent is supposed to do. I send back a concrete recommendation: what to keep, what to split, and what to stop treating as a model problem.
Most of my day job is AI agents on commerce systems. The essays below are the public version of that thinking. Read those first. If the framing matches the problem you actually have, email me.
Proof of thinking
- Eight Questions on Agents
What each component solves, what state it owns, and what breaks when you remove it.
- Skills vs MCP: complementary, not competing
MCP is the badge. Skills are the training. The working pattern is Skill orchestration plus MCP execution.
- Skills vs. Workflows
How to separate reusable capability from orchestration, so the agent is both flexible and reliable.
Contact
Email thetao1900@gmail.com with a short note on the product, the agent, and the decision you need to make. LinkedIn is also fine: taozhangnyu.
I take a small number of these. If it is a better fit for the newsletter than for a paid audit, I will say so.