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# Operations agent builder

# Operations agent builder

Creating new agents

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Builds the operations agents that drive document and media pipelines: resolving the target environment from what the requester said or from their profile, discovering the deployed stack, starting and watching runs, handling replays and approval gates, and preparing configuration changes as reviewable proposals.
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- **Used when**
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— When a pipeline needs a conversational operator rather than a runbook, and the operator has to be safe against acting on the wrong environment.
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- **Loads first**
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- The agent-building skill, for the shared runtime pattern.
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- The pipeline's own replay and staging-configuration playbooks.
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- The change-history skill, so a configuration proposal is grounded in what changed before.
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- **Returns**
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- The agent architecture and its runtime boundary.
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- The environment and stack discovery plan, naming the fields discovery must return.
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- The request contract, separating fields resolved deterministically from fields the model owns, with environment gating.
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- The tool inventory, grouped by the system each group touches.
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- The clarification, approval, replay and proposal rules.
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- A verification checklist against real operational behaviour.
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- **Hands off**
- Assistant builder — the general task-triggered agent shape

## Others in Creating new agents

- Assistant builder
- Audit analyser
- Spend approval
