AI Agents Need Control Surfaces

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eve is a framework for building durable AI agents with a developer experience similar to modern web frameworks. It helps teams structure agent projects as simple folders, preserve state across runs, and compose agent behavior without rebuilding infrastructure from scratch. Developers can use eve to prototype assistants, automation agents, research workflows, and internal tools that need memory, repeatability, and clean deployment paths. It is designed for software teams, AI engineers, and product builders who want agent systems that feel maintainable rather than like one-off scripts. eve stands out because it focuses on the application layer around agents: opinionated project structure, durable defaults, and a workflow that makes agent development feel closer to shipping a production app.
Agent Workflows is a reusable library of engineering processes for AI coding agents and human developers. It gives agents structured procedures for project initialization, feature development, bug fixing, code review, incident debugging, refactoring, and technical-debt cleanup, with safety and validation checkpoints shared across workflows. The repo is useful for developers who want more reliable agent behavior without hard-coding one-off instructions into every prompt. It is notable now because model quality can drift silently and teams need process scaffolding around autonomous coding tools. Smartoolbox users get a practical productivity resource that can be copied into agent environments, adapted for team standards, and used to make AI-assisted engineering work more repeatable.
We created autonomous AI Agents that monitor the stock market for you while you go about your day.<p>How it works: Tell our AI Assistant what you want to monitor, and it creates a project for our team of autonomous AI Agents. You'll get notifications (email + app) when significant events matching your criteria are detected. For short-term projects, you'll be notified when your analysis is ready.<p>Behind the scenes: When you give the AI Assistant a request to monitor an entity (like a stock or group of stocks), an AI Project Manager plans the project and breaks the project down into manageable tasks. These tasks run asynchronously - some recurring (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly), others one-time.<p>Example prompts you can try: Long-term monitoring: - "Monitor Apple stock and notify me of any important events and red flags" - "Monitor Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta stock. Notify me if any of them start trending toward being undervalued"<p>Short-term analysis: - "Create a project to analyze the last 30 earnings calls for Tesla, spot trends, and how the business has evolved over time"<p>You can track the progress of all tasks as the AI Agents work in the background.<p>Try it here: <a href="https://decodeinvesting.com/chat" rel="nofollow">https://decodeinvesting.com/chat</a><p>This is still an early version - we're actively improving it based on feedback. Would love to hear what you think and what features you'd want to see next!<p>Previously shared our AI-powered Stock Market Research Analyst: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156478">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156478</a>
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Describe any recurring workflow — support triage, lead qualification, research ops, QA, reporting, or back-office reviews — and get a concrete AI agent deployment plan. The output maps the workflow into agent responsibilities, human approval points, tool access, permission scopes, failure modes, observability needs, and rollout phases. It is designed for teams that want to move from vague agent ideas to something production-ready without skipping governance.
Business & strategyThis prompt helps teams evaluate whether an AI agent feature is actually ready for real-world deployment instead of just looking impressive in a demo. It is designed for product managers, founders, operators, and technical leads who need to assess permissions, observability, spend controls, approval checkpoints, failure handling, and auditability before putting agentic workflows in front of customers or employees. The output turns a vague concept or existing workflow into a governance readiness audit with specific risks, missing controls, and prioritized improvements. That makes it useful when a team is moving from prototype to production, preparing for enterprise buyers, or trying to avoid expensive trust failures. It focuses on the operational layer that determines whether an agent can be governed responsibly, not just whether the underlying model is smart enough.
Career & productivityUse this prompt to convert messy human-oriented documentation into a structured action spec that an AI agent, automation system, or internal tool could follow more reliably. It is useful when teams have SOPs, onboarding docs, API notes, support playbooks, or internal process guides that are understandable to humans but too ambiguous for consistent machine execution. The output rewrites the material into clear steps, decision rules, required inputs, expected outputs, edge cases, and escalation paths, while preserving uncertainty instead of pretending the original documentation was complete. This makes it valuable for operations teams, product builders, AI workflow designers, and companies trying to make their institutional knowledge more machine-readable without rewriting everything from scratch. It focuses on practical clarity, not abstract theory about documentation quality.
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