https://turqoizelabs.com/notes.html Essays from the studio on agent systems: deliberation patterns, memory architecture, and designing for handoff. en https://turqoizelabs.com/notes/council-pattern/ https://turqoizelabs.com/notes/council-pattern/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A deliberation system is a small bureaucracy. Sometimes you want a bureaucracy. Sometimes you want an oracle. Here is how to tell them apart on day one. https://turqoizelabs.com/notes/six-layers-of-memory/ https://turqoizelabs.com/notes/six-layers-of-memory/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A memory model is not a database. It is a series of decisions about which past should reach the present. The forgetting is the work. https://turqoizelabs.com/notes/the-handoff-is-the-deliverable/ https://turqoizelabs.com/notes/the-handoff-is-the-deliverable/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 If the day you leave is scarier than the day you arrived, you built the wrong thing. A short note on designing for departure.