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Jose Montes de Oca

Conference affiliation: OpenProse

Jose Montes de Oca presented “Stop Telling Agents How” at AI Engineer, credited with OpenProse in the official recording.

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Dan Barrett and Raymond Weitekamp show how OpenProse expresses reusable agent workflows as Markdown contracts, from pull request review to bank model documentation.

  • A contract records the outcome and requirements; specific tools, skills or procedures can still be required where they matter.
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  • A job combines a reusable contract with a trigger, such as a webhook or schedule.
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  • Fresh review sessions and composed checkpoints add scrutiny, but an agent’s claim that it has fulfilled a contract remains a verification problem.
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  • A successful session can be converted into a more specific reusable workflow, with a tradeoff between flexibility and potential cost savings.
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