Mind Window · Agent Design Studio

Mind Window

Designing how agents think — and how humans watch them think.

Most agent demos show you the output. This is a study in the other layer: the mind (how an agent decides, recalls, and refuses) and the window (how a person watches that decision happen and chooses to trust it). Each entry is one agent, built end-to-end, with its real traces, its design rationale, and an honest account of where it broke.

The Agents

One agent, built to the floor — not a template gallery

AGENT 01

The Article Analyst

An agent that reads what you read, builds a memory of it, and answers questions against the whole corpus — citing the specific source behind every claim, and flagging the claims it can't ground.

The moment that matters: mid-run, the agent detects its own search drifting off-topic, issues a RETRY, and recovers — on a real trace. Resilience, captured live, is more convincing than a demo that never stumbles.

Read the case study & explore the trace

LangGraph · 3 graphs 71-article corpus FK-grounded citations 28 sessions

Deep Dives

Seven cross-sections of how the Article Analyst was designed

01Trace as Thinking Map — one real run, drawn as the agent's cognition 02Schema Mind — how the output contract shapes the thinking 03Decision Architecture — when the model, not the code, picks what happens next 04Librarian & Analyst — separating mechanical work from cognitive work 05Trust Discipline — "verify me, not trust me" — grounding as trust architecture 06Empirical Method — how testing, not planning, revealed the design 07Design Principles — the extracted laws of agent architecture

Why this exists

The bet behind the studio

Judgment is the seat. When generation is free, the value is in the decision the agent makes over messy input — not the text it produces.
The window is the design. An agent's behavior under uncertainty — how it hedges, grounds, and refuses — is the whole interface. Making that legible is the work.
The failures are the proof. Where an agent breaks, and the tradeoff made when there was no perfect answer, is what separates designed work from a template.