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The way I try to illustrate this to my peers, in the context of automating with llms, is to "do as much of the deterministic work as possible before and after involving an agent". Tbf this is largely a restatement of your comment;

Ie instead of

"hey agent, use the api to get X, then do unpredictable mutation Y to it, and email it to me",

it should be;

"Scheduled task runs code to get X then place it in workspace. Task then starts agent in workspace and is prompted to do mutation Y to it. Post-flight code then sends final product."

The difference here being that the pre/post flight stuff is called deterministically, rather than called by an llm.