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Handbooks And Backgrounders
Rob's two-part vocabulary for the context layer, straight from the book.
How it works
- 1Handbook: the instructions that turn a generalist model into a specialist agent for one role. Inside the industry this is a system prompt; the plain word travels better.
- 2Backgrounder: company context the agent may need to look up, like go-to-market strategy or market differentiation.
- 3Not every backgrounder is relevant to every agent at every moment, so retrieval matters.
- 4Both need a home that's editable by the right people and only the right people.
Hear it on the podcast
The $0 Fix That Makes Claude 10x Smarter for Your BusinessListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The Capability OverhangRob's core diagnosis of the current moment.PhD In Everything, Brand New Hire At Your BusinessThe mental model that reframes every disappointing AI output.Bot Sitting, The 80/20 TaxWhy off-the-shelf feels great and then betrays you.One Version Of The Truth, For WordsRob's transfer of a hard-won BI discipline onto unstructured text.Hybrid ComputingThe rule that keeps AI systems from embarrassing you.
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