What NOT to say in an agent description
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Avoid "connect to X" — the wizard treats auth as setup, not a step. Avoid vague pronouns. Avoid stuffing with details.
Three anti-patterns the wizard handles but you can avoid up front:
1. "Connect to my Outlook" as a step. The wizard already knows it needs auth; explicitly listing "connect" as a step used to confuse the older SLM. The current version drops connect-style verbs, but cleaner descriptions read more naturally.
2. Vague pronouns. "Read it and send it" — what's "it"? Be explicit: "Read the unread emails, summarise them, send me the summary."
3. Stuffing every detail into one paragraph. The SLM has a 32K context but lower-end models start losing track around 1500 chars in a single prose blob. Break into short, distinct sentences. One sentence per logical step is ideal.
The wizard's holistic-review pass catches a lot of this, but every problem you avoid up front saves a planning iteration (which costs the SLM 5-10 seconds of compute).
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