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- Add Agent Design Patterns section to architecture.md documenting alignment with Lance Martin's patterns (Claude Code, Manus, Cursor) - Update README.md with design patterns summary table and philosophy reference - Add improvement plan (p010) to PLANS.md for remaining optimizations - Add backlog items (t052-t057) to TODO.md for implementation tasks Patterns documented: - Give Agents a Computer (filesystem + shell) - Multi-Layer Action Space (per-agent MCP filtering) - Progressive Disclosure (subagent tables, read-on-demand) - Offload Context (workspace persistence) - Cache Context (stable prefixes) - Isolate Context (sub-agents) - Ralph Loop (iterative execution) - Evolve Context (memory system) Ref: https://x.com/RLanceMartin/status/2009683038272401719
WalkthroughThe pull request documents and catalogs agent design patterns across the framework's architecture and planning layers. Eight design patterns—including Give Agents a Computer, Multi-Layer Action Space, Progressive Disclosure, and Context management patterns—are formally introduced with pattern-to-implementation mappings. Concurrently, the project backlog is reorganized from a single task to a structured set of phased initiatives supporting pattern integration and subagent enhancements. Changes
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Summary of ChangesHello @marcusquinn, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed! This pull request significantly enhances the documentation of the aidevops framework by detailing its adherence to established AI agent design patterns. It provides a clear architectural overview, validates the current implementation against best practices, and lays out a strategic roadmap for future improvements focused on optimizing context management and autonomous learning capabilities. Highlights
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This pull request introduces comprehensive documentation on agent design patterns, aligning aidevops with industry standards. It adds a new section to architecture.md, a summary to README.md, and creates a corresponding improvement plan in PLANS.md and tasks in TODO.md. The documentation is well-structured and detailed. My review focuses on improving the clarity and consistency of the summary table in README.md to ensure it accurately reflects the more detailed information in architecture.md.
| | **Multi-Layer Action Space** | Few tools, push actions to computer | Per-agent MCP filtering (~12-20 tools each) | | ||
| | **Progressive Disclosure** | Load context on-demand | Subagent tables, YAML frontmatter, read-on-demand | | ||
| | **Offload Context** | Write results to filesystem | `.agent-workspace/work/[project]/` for persistence | | ||
| | **Cache Context** | Prompt caching for cost | Stable instruction prefixes | |
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The description "Prompt caching for cost" is a bit abrupt and the implementation details are incomplete compared to architecture.md. For better clarity and completeness, consider expanding the description and adding the missing implementation detail.
| | **Cache Context** | Prompt caching for cost | Stable instruction prefixes | | |
| | **Cache Context** | Prompt caching for cost efficiency | Stable instruction prefixes, avoid reordering between calls | |
| | **Progressive Disclosure** | Load context on-demand | Subagent tables, YAML frontmatter, read-on-demand | | ||
| | **Offload Context** | Write results to filesystem | `.agent-workspace/work/[project]/` for persistence | | ||
| | **Cache Context** | Prompt caching for cost | Stable instruction prefixes | | ||
| | **Isolate Context** | Sub-agents with separate windows | Subagent files with specific tool permissions | |
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The description "Sub-agents with separate windows" is ambiguous and could be misinterpreted as GUI windows. Using "separate context windows" as in architecture.md would be clearer and more precise.
| | **Isolate Context** | Sub-agents with separate windows | Subagent files with specific tool permissions | | |
| | **Isolate Context** | Sub-agents with separate context windows | Subagent files with specific tool permissions | |
| | **Offload Context** | Write results to filesystem | `.agent-workspace/work/[project]/` for persistence | | ||
| | **Cache Context** | Prompt caching for cost | Stable instruction prefixes | | ||
| | **Isolate Context** | Sub-agents with separate windows | Subagent files with specific tool permissions | | ||
| | **Ralph Loop** | Iterative execution until complete | `ralph-loop-helper.sh`, `full-loop-helper.sh` | |
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The implementation details for the 'Ralph Loop' pattern are incomplete in this summary table. The workflows/ralph-loop.md file is a key part of the implementation and should be included for completeness, as it is in architecture.md.
| | **Ralph Loop** | Iterative execution until complete | `ralph-loop-helper.sh`, `full-loop-helper.sh` | | |
| | **Ralph Loop** | Iterative execution until complete | `workflows/ralph-loop.md`, `ralph-loop-helper.sh`, `full-loop-helper.sh` | |
| | **Cache Context** | Prompt caching for cost | Stable instruction prefixes | | ||
| | **Isolate Context** | Sub-agents with separate windows | Subagent files with specific tool permissions | | ||
| | **Ralph Loop** | Iterative execution until complete | `ralph-loop-helper.sh`, `full-loop-helper.sh` | | ||
| | **Evolve Context** | Learn from sessions | `/remember`, `/recall` with SQLite FTS5 | |
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The implementation details for the 'Evolve Context' pattern are incomplete. The memory-helper.sh script is a key part of the implementation and should be included for completeness, as it is in architecture.md.
| | **Evolve Context** | Learn from sessions | `/remember`, `/recall` with SQLite FTS5 | | |
| | **Evolve Context** | Learn from sessions | `/remember`, `/recall` with SQLite FTS5, `memory-helper.sh` | |
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🤖 Augment PR SummarySummary: This PR expands aidevops documentation to explicitly map the framework to common agent design patterns and outlines a roadmap for remaining pattern-driven improvements. Changes:
Technical Notes: The docs emphasize context-efficiency techniques like per-agent tool scoping, progressive disclosure, filesystem offloading, iterative “loop” workflows, and SQLite FTS5-backed memory. 🤖 Was this summary useful? React with 👍 or 👎 |
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| - Notes: Document how to analyze CI timing data for adaptive wait optimization. Include commands for extracting timing from GitHub Actions logs and updating shared-constants.sh. | ||
| - [ ] t050 Move SonarCloud hotspot patterns from AGENTS.md to code-review subagent #refactor #docs ~30m (ai:15m test:10m read:5m) logged:2025-01-11 | ||
| - Notes: AGENTS.md lines 85-89 contain SonarCloud hotspot patterns (S5332, S6506 exclusions). Move to tools/code-review/ subagent to reduce root AGENTS.md size. Low priority - patterns work fine where they are. | ||
| - [ ] t052 Agent Design Pattern Improvements #plan → [todo/PLANS.md#agent-design-pattern-improvements] ~1d (ai:6h test:4h read:2h) logged:2025-01-11 |
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The anchor in [todo/PLANS.md#agent-design-pattern-improvements] likely won’t resolve because the heading in todo/PLANS.md includes the [2025-01-11] prefix (GitHub will generate an anchor like #2025-01-11-agent-design-pattern-improvements). Consider adjusting either the heading or link so navigation works.
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| | Pattern | Description | aidevops Implementation | | ||
| |---------|-------------|------------------------| | ||
| | **Give Agents a Computer** | Filesystem + shell access for persistent context | `~/.aidevops/.agent-workspace/`, helper scripts in `scripts/`, bash tools | | ||
| | **Multi-Layer Action Space** | Few tools, push actions to computer | Per-agent MCP filtering in `generate-opencode-agents.sh`, ~12-20 tools per agent | |
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generate-opencode-agents.sh is referenced here (and below with line ranges), but in this repo it lives at .agent/scripts/generate-opencode-agents.sh (deployed to ~/.aidevops/agents/scripts/), so the current reference may be hard to follow. Consider pointing to the full path and avoiding hardcoded line numbers that may drift as the script evolves.
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Summary
Documents aidevops alignment with industry-standard agent design patterns identified by Lance Martin (LangChain) and validated across Claude Code, Manus, and Cursor.
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Patterns Documented
~/.aidevops/.agent-workspace/, helper scripts.agent-workspace/work/[project]/persistenceralph-loop-helper.sh,full-loop-helper.sh/remember,/recallwith SQLite FTS5Future Improvements Planned
Reference
Lance Martin's "Effective Agent Design" (Jan 2025)
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