Agent-Operated Software
Guides designing and diagnosing apps whose control loop includes OpenRig agents.
Install
npx skills add mvschwarz/openrig --skill agent-operated-software -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- mvschwarz/openrig8.5k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,146 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Use when designing, building, operating, or diagnosing an ongoing application whose live backend or control loop includes OpenRig agents, including applications with a Markdown, YAML, or JSON agent control plane or a thin surface over specialist agent roles.
Agent-Operated Software
Agent-Operated Software is an ongoing application whose functioning runtime includes an OpenRig agent or rig in its live backend or control loop. The application surface can be thin: structured state and specialist roles do the work, while the UI makes that work legible and steerable.
Start with the shared taxonomy
- AI-enabled software: application code owns the control loop and calls a model as one capability.
- Agent-Operated Workflow: an agent owns one bounded procedure with a start and stop condition;
see
agent-operated-workflows. - Agent-Operated Software: agents participate in an ongoing application's functioning runtime.
An application may compose many Agent-Operated Workflows. A bounded workflow does not by itself make its surrounding product Agent-Operated Software, and a model call is neither category unless an agent owns part of the control loop.
Agents are part of the backend
In this architecture, behavior is not located only in functions. It is distributed across agents, skills, instructions, bootstrap files, schemas, Markdown, YAML, JSON, folders, and deterministic tools. A surprising result may therefore be a code defect or a coherence gap in this control plane. Trace the path that actually produced the behavior before choosing which layer to repair.
This is not permission to tolerate defects in OpenRig core or another rock-solid substrate. There, reproduce the bug, fix the code, and hold the full gate. The faster coherence-first posture belongs to recoverable agent-operated application layers whose state and behavior can be inspected and repaired cheaply.
