From the Agent Discovery and Design FrameworkThe ADD Framework
The five questions of agent discovery and design
Most agent projects fail not because the AI isn't good enough, but because no one asked the right questions first. These five assessments help you figure out where to focus, what to address, and whether you're ready to build.
How it works
Five questions. Five weeks. A clear starting point.
Each question is a self-contained assessment that gives you actionable results. Work through them in order, and by the end you'll know where your use case stands and what to tackle first.
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The five questions
Work through them in order
Question 1
Should this be an agent?
Not every process needs AI. Score your use case across 9 dimensions to find out whether an agent is the right tool, or whether automation, workflow tools, or humans are a better fit.
From §7 AI Fit
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What’s the real process?
Map the process your agent will handle. Identify which parts suit AI, which suit code, and which need a person. The decomposition that turns a vague idea into something you can actually scope.
From §8–12 Process Decomposition
Question 3
How should the agent work?
The key design decisions: how the agent reasons, what tools it uses, when it hands off to a human, and how much autonomy it gets. A guided walkthrough of the choices that matter most.
From §13–19 Agent Design Decisions
Question 4
How will you know it’s working?
Define what to measure, how to measure it, and what ‘good enough’ looks like. The quality thinking that stops you shipping something you can’t monitor.
From §20–24 Quality and Evaluation
Question 5
How will you keep it working?
Plan for what happens after launch: monitoring, drift, operations, and the team decisions that determine whether your agent lasts.
From §25–31 Deployment and Operations
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