Stop Telling Agents How — Dan Barrett, Raymond Weitekamp & Jose Montes de Oca, OpenProse
The OpenProse team shows how to write multi-agent workflows as declarative contracts in plain markdown, which any harness (Claude Code, Codex and others) can compile and run.
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Key points
- Say what you want, not how to get it.
- Demos include event-driven jobs triggered by webhooks and pull requests, a "grumpy senior" PR reviewer, and an end-to-end bank model-documentation workflow.
- They also discuss composing contracts, pinning a winning run into a reusable workflow, and how this compares to DSPy.
- 12:13 Event-driven jobs: contract + trigger
Sources (1)
- [1]Stop Telling Agents How — Dan Barrett, Raymond Weitekamp & Jose Montes de Oca, OpenProseAI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 18, 07:00 PM
The OpenProse team shows how to write multi-agent workflows as declarative contracts in plain markdown, which any harness (Claude Code, Codex and others) can compile and run.
Say what you want, not how to get it.
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
Before this
- Oct 18, 2026Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework
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