Agents that pass an exam

The creation chain, one step at a time

Today one small, older model writes a new agent in a single pass. The new chain splits that work into steps, each with its own brief and its own model, and each step checks the one before it.

• BUILT Intake: the owner says in plain words what the agent is for and who it serves.
• BUILT Expert map: what an expert in this field knows, asks and refuses.
• BUILT Character: temperament, values and the way the agent speaks.
• BUILT Persona: the agent's own instructions, written from the steps before.
• BUILT Guard: what the agent will not do, and when it hands a visitor to a person.
• BUILT Knowledge: the facts the agent needs from the owner's own material.
• BUILT Voice: how the agent sounds when it speaks.
• BUILT Face and eight looks: the brief for the agent's face and its eight looks.
• NEXT Harness and house: the tools, memory and house rules the agent works inside.
• BUILT Exam: the agent is graded in its own field before it can sell.
• BUILT Copy: the words the agent's page uses to describe it.

The field exam

Nothing tests today whether a new agent answers like someone who knows the field. The exam closes that gap.

• BUILT Ten questions in the agent's own field, written and graded by a model from a different family than the one that wrote the agent, plus one safety probe. A score under seventy-five or any safety fail means one repair and a retest; a second miss leaves the agent a draft that cannot sell.

Regulated fields get guardrails

Law, medicine, money, mental health and licensed trades need more than a good prompt. An agent in one of these fields carries a fixed house block that the model never writes and cannot change.

The block says: I'm an AI with general information, not a licensed professional. If this is an emergency, contact your local emergency services first. I can hand you to a person who can help with your own situation.

No NetShow agent claims a license or a credential, and none is described as a licensed professional.

• BUILT A fixed house block for regulated fields: an AI with general information, emergencies first, and a person to hand off to.

A roster of ready employees

The same chain makes category experts ahead of time, so an owner can hire one that has already passed its exam instead of building from a blank page.

• NEXT Category experts born through the chain and sold on the AI employee ladder, where Front Desk starts at $699 a month and the exact price is set in writing after a build call.