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2026-04-08 18:28
How We Use Gherkin, Envelopes, and Schemas to Shape Agent Behavior
Instead of writing rules agents ignore, we describe the behaviors we want. A look at how Gherkin scenarios, message envelopes, and structured output formats work together to make AI agents reliably do the right thing.
When we first started building more complex prompts, we took the programming mindset to prompting: we wrote instructions, added more rules when something broke, and ended up with...