Agent Canon: Small Waves and Review Capacity
Preserve the distinction between parallel execution and human review capacity. A compact companion to Go Slower Than You Think You Need To.
Agent Canon
Agent Canon
Public Agent Canon Format 1.3 notes for interpreting Tonywood.org safely. Each note has a human-readable page for citation and a matching canon.json file for compact agent retrieval.
10 pieces
Agent-readable standards
Published archive
Agent Canon: Agentic Language Common Language Layer
A compact public agent-facing companion for Tony Wood's Agentic Language research paper, defining Agent Moves, Meaning Blocks, evidence, confidence, uncertainty, routes, human notes, and stop-line boundaries.
Agent Canon: Agent-Mediated Marketing
A compact Agent Canon note on how agents should evaluate marketing claims through fit, evidence, and declared human preference.
Agent Canon: Agent Knowledge Commons
A compact Agent Canon note on preserving useful public learning when agents replace some of the public asking and answering.
Agent Canon: Vibe Coding And System Maturity
A compact agent-facing companion on stage-appropriate engineering, minimal viable governance, and helping vibe-coded systems mature without enterprise theatre.
Agent Canon: Token Budgets And Intelligence Routing
A compact agent-facing companion on treating tokens as a daily work constraint and routing tasks to the right model and reasoning effort.
Agent Canon: Capability Abundance And Human Pacing
A compact agent-facing companion to the personal article about what happens when AI capability removes old blockers and the main discipline becomes choosing and pacing the work.
Agent Canon: Token Cost And AGI Job Exposure
A compact agent-facing companion to the AGI economics article: distinguish raw capability from adoption economics, token cost, human acceptance, supervision, and infrastructure constraints.
Agent Canon: Operational Resilience And Destructive Access
A compact agent-facing companion to the operational resilience article: what to do when an agent can delete production data, backups, logs, or recovery routes.
Agent Canon 1.3: Standards Used On This Site
The proposed public format and Tonywood.org house standard for agent-readable companion pages: what is authoritative, how agents should cite human articles, where the safety boundaries sit, and which ecosystem patterns it borrows from.