Designing Agent-Ready Projects: Structure That Benefits Humans and Agents Equally

Designing Agent-Ready Projects#

An “agent-ready” project is just a well-documented project. Every practice that helps an agent — clear conventions, explicit commands, tracked progress, documented decisions — also helps a new team member, a future-you who forgot the details, or a contractor picking up the project for the first time.

The difference is that humans can ask follow-up questions and gradually build context through conversation. Agents cannot. They need it written down, in the right place, at the right level of detail. Projects that meet this bar are better for everyone.

The ROI of Agent Infrastructure: Measuring Time Saved, Errors Avoided, and Projects Completed

The ROI of Agent Infrastructure#

Most people skip agent infrastructure setup because the first task feels urgent. The second task is also urgent. By the tenth task, they have spent more time re-explaining context, correcting assumptions, and watching the agent re-derive decisions than the infrastructure would have cost to set up.

This article quantifies the return on agent infrastructure investment — not in abstract terms, but in minutes per session, tokens per project, and errors per workflow.