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Canon Beast edited this page Aug 24, 2026 · 4 revisions

What is published

Seven tools. Each stands alone.

You need none of the others to use any of them.




What "seven" counts

Five files in tools/ and two of the seven in cheatsheets/.


The other five cheatsheets are real and usable, and they are retrieval material rather than governance instruments. They belong to the Grounding layer and are indexed from the docs.


The rule is the same either way: published means finished and field-tested.



1 · Agent Card

Read it →

One page every production agent needs: owner, risk tier, autonomy level, escalation contact, kill switch.

Use it before any agent reaches production.

The field people skip is "what it explicitly does NOT do." That boundary is the one that gets tested first.


Three of its fields are frameworks: risk tier, autonomy level, and mode.



2 · Pre-Flight Checklist

Read it →

Ten gates between "it works on my machine" and "it is live."

Use it at the deployment gate, every time.

Gates are checked, not claimed. A README asserting something exists is not evidence that it does.



3 · BXT Scorecard

Read it →

Scores use cases on Business value, eXecutability and Trust, so funding goes to what can actually ship.

Use it in portfolio and roadmap planning.


It scores a candidate. It does not find one, and it is not the same instrument as the Three Proofs, which is the evidence you bring to the score.



4 · RAG Smell Test

Read it →

Fast diagnostic for whether a retrieval system is actually working.

Use it when reviewing someone else's build.



5 · Danger Zones Checklist

Read it →

The failure modes worth checking before they find you.

Use it in design review.



6 · MCP Catalog

Read it →

MCP servers organised by blast radius, with the governance each tier requires.

Use it when choosing what your agents can reach.

Blast radius, not popularity. Anyone can host an MCP server, which makes a third-party tool response untrusted input.


Its tiers are the same four the Agent Card records.



7 · Skills Catalog

Read it →

Agent skills across four harnesses: portability, context cost, and how to evaluate whether one actually helped.

Use it when choosing how your agents work.



In the repository, and not a tool

Agent Factory, Regulated Industries Edition

A curated index for finance, healthcare and supply chain: frameworks and orchestration, vetted repositories by vertical, MCP servers, ontologies, datasets, papers, and a regulatory reference.


It is a reading list, not an instrument. It is listed here because people find it and ask, and because a reference of that size should be labelled as one rather than quietly counted as an eighth tool.



The publishing rule

Tools appear here when they are finished and field-tested.

Never as placeholders, and never as a roadmap item with a checkbox.


If something is thin, the page says so.



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