Reuben Schwarz·Oct 22The Artefacts your Agents really needYou know the demo. A team gets an agent to write the 10-page spec they used to write by hand. Same 10 pages (sometimes a lot more!), same…
Reuben Schwarz·Oct 5The Complete Guide to Agentic GuardrailsOver the last couple of months I wrote a mini-series on guardrails, all part of building an agentic SDLC consulting business end-to-end…
Reuben Schwarz·Sep 16ReubenOrg — The Tinkerbell Principle, or Guardrail enforcementTime to play agentic workflow fairy!
Reuben Schwarz·Sep 4ReubenOrg — The Guardrail Your Agents Aren’t CheckingA Washington Post columnist asked OpenAI’s Operator to find him some cheap eggs. It found some at $5.99, got tripped up by a minimum-order…
Reuben Schwarz·Aug 17ReubenOrg — The Workslop Guardrail, or Your Agents Are Too HelpfulA Python collective called Jazzband shut down this year. Not because the code broke, or the maintainers got bored, but because they were…
Reuben Schwarz·Aug 5ReubenOrg — The Risk Guardrail, or Your Agents Are Too LeakyA few weeks back one of my reubies (my agents) needed an email address out of a credentials file. It printed every string in the file, then…
Reuben Schwarz·Jul 29ReubenOrg —The Traceability GuardrailRight now there are lawyers — real ones, with law degrees — being fined tens of thousands of dollars for citing court cases that don’t…
Reuben Schwarz·Jul 25Why Your Hinges Need GuardrailsIf I were a dictionary,¹ my word of 2026 would be “guardrails.”
Reuben Schwarz·Jul 23ReubenOrg — What makes a good hinge?What makes a good hinge? If the door can swing both ways.
Reuben Schwarz·Jun 24ReubenOrg — The ToolingThis time on “ReubenOrg: The Workflows: The Series: The Blog”, my ongoing experiment rebuilding my consulting business end-to-end using…
