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Notes from the engine room.

Why deterministic execution beats re-deriving the same workflow, and what we learned building the engine that does it.

  • 29 Jul 20267 min

    A long policy is not a runtime

    HANDBOOK.md finds that the best evaluated agent configuration completed only 36.2% of long, policy-governed processes without missing a requirement. The result points toward a different runtime model: let agents design the procedure, then execute the procedure as code.

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  • 26 Jul 20266 min

    Cori vs Agent Harnesses

    Agent harnesses can reach the same outcome through different paths, with wide variation in execution time, tool calls, and tokens. Cori turns the settled path into code.

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  • 25 Jul 20264 min

    Scheduled Agent work does not scale

    Your agent solves a problem once by searching. Then it searches again, identically, on every call after. The fix isn't a better agent — it's writing down what the agent found.

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Cori turns the workflow your agent designed into code you own and an engine that runs it. Open source, local-first, built in Paris.

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