TEMPLATE FORGE

Abstract

Template Forge is the factory that builds the agents. Every agent in the fleet is a full canonical atom off a shared template: five required layers (identity, dossier, knowledge, memory, skills) and three optional ones, schema-validated when it's scaffolded and again on every commit. Agents get promoted from working to certified to platinum on measured outcomes, not on how nicely they're configured. The forge is what keeps the fleet legible (to the orchestrator and to itself) and what keeps the convention from drifting across hundreds of agents.

Provenance

Came out of watching too many teams scaffold agents the same doomed way (copy a template, hand-edit it, lose the convention by week three) and a decade of platform work that taught me the only durable abstraction is the one that builds the abstraction.

Declassified

Two choices worth naming. First, you don't edit an agent in place. You regenerate it from an updated template, which is what keeps the convention clean across the whole fleet. Second, promotion is statistical, not editorial: certified takes a track record and a minimum number of invocations; platinum takes per-aspect mastery scores and proof the agent's patterns have spread to others. The scoring model and how I measure that spread stay private.

Also in VAULT

• CONVERGENCE Scattered signal → coherent answer.
• ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE IN APEX X12 claims, generated natively, inside governor limits.
• PUBLISHING FACTORY Six agents. One voice. One cadence.