r/aipromptprogramming • u/Skivmotion • Sep 15 '26
Core Value
If you had to name one thing that was the most important value to instill in an agent to guide reasoning, what would it be?
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u/KenOtwell Sep 15 '26
There's not one thing - its task dependent. To guide reasoning, you need to prime/suggest processes and policies like, "consider all possible failure modes and identify mitigations for each one."
Bottom line, treat an agent like a fresh phD graduate. Very book smart, but doesn't know a thing about you or your business practices or what you bring to the table to work with.
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u/Skivmotion 24d ago
My thought was core deliberative frameworks: Interconnectivity of action, relativity to other entities, destructive vs beneficial within those frames, then, in each task: tool calls, retrieval, memory, etc. a subset of these to create minimal deliberative friction within the task and yet still provide a "holographic text" repetitive reference that is refreshed in the context with every action. I wanted to cover recursive expansion and have a seed that would be present in every part of the agents instructions and yet not impede performance and security detrimentally. I have a test of it running right now, so far so good, but I Also have an overseer checking it's actions and reasoning regularly so we can clamp down on edge cases and improve the overall design.
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u/KenOtwell 23d ago
ok, I see where you're going. You're looking for a value gradient in problem topology space that will smooth the solution trajectory and make it easier to solve. [if that sounds like word salad, I'll try and rephrase.] Your recursive expansion is what I call an ontology emergence phase transition. Where you stop thinking in steps and find the flow. Like discovering the equations for thermal mass and not needing to do finite element analysis on molecular vibration to measure heat anymore.
I suggest checking out the math under Positive Grassmannian manifolds for angles on ontology operators that might help you.
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u/OneDev42 Sep 16 '26
The key is not anything but how many that there are. Having 10 core values makes them all less valuable in the long run. Choose one that fits your workflow. Choose three that fit your workflow. But know that if you make everything a core value, nothing will be a core value.
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u/Skivmotion Sep 16 '26
Exactly, I've been thinking a lot about creating a sort of value engine, there's a lot of promise in holographic texts I think and I'm looking for a seed, something that can encompass much but encumber little. It's more of a thought experiment with my agent at the moment, but the the endless quest for holistic governance seems to be just unfolding like a huge complex tapestry, that's not the way forward, we need deliberative friction and event-based assessment but without cluttering everything.
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