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Agents You Can Leave Alone

Harness engineering for AI systems in production

Agents You Can Leave Alone
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Your AI agent works in the demo. Would you leave it running alone? This book is about the harness around the model: the code that makes an agent say 'could not check' instead of a confident wrong 'none', that cites the page behind every claim, and that stays quiet only when it is healthy. Written in public, one chapter at a time, from systems I build and run.

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Marius Andronie

Marius Andronie is the founder of Devaland, a small software company in Romania that builds AI systems businesses can actually leave running: assistants that answer calls and chats from a company's own data, document pipelines, integrations and AI agents. He also builds Deal OS, a due-diligence platform for people buying small companies, where every claim in the brief is cited to its source page or cut. His courses teach the method behind that work: choosing the first job worth giving an AI system, and making it safe enough to leave alone.

Before software, he was a Romanian Army officer engineer, a graduate of the Military Technical Academy in Bucharest, and then spent twenty years typesetting scientific and mathematical books for academic publishers. Both taught him the same habit: understand the system first, and never trust a number you cannot trace.

He lives near Deva, in Transylvania, in a home that runs close to off-grid on solar power, batteries and a heat pump, and he also writes short, practical workbooks for real problems: getting a household ready for outages, managing money on one income, budgeting by biblical principles, gratitude and CBT practice in later life, and grief after losing a pet.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. Why a harness and not a better prompt
  2. Who this book is for
  3. How to read it
  4. Written in public

The sentence after the partial read

  1. The four failures
  2. The damage is never the partial read
  3. Three questions before any negative
  4. A tool that refuses the verdict
  5. The same shape in places you do not expect
  6. The habit to build

Three states, never two

  1. Where the third state hides
  2. Name the state in code
  3. Prove the source was alive
  4. Carry it to the reader
  5. The habit to build

A check you cannot make fail is not a check

  1. The rule written before the run
  2. A clean rerun proves nothing
  3. Feed it a case it must fail
  4. The same idea everywhere
  5. When a new guard says everything is broken
  6. Three rules I keep relearning

Cite the source or cut the claim

  1. The claim was right once
  2. A table is not a measurement
  3. The shape of a cited claim
  4. One source, and copies that are checked against it
  5. What the agent may say without a source
  6. The habit

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