Intent Engineering: Giving AI Agents Identity

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

What if your AI agent forgot who it was every morning?

Not its tools. Not its instructions. Those are easy to reload. I mean its judgment. The priorities it weighs when two valid options exist and the instructions don’t cover which one to pick. The instinct to escalate this decision but handle that one quietly. The difference between a capable contractor and a trusted colleague.

That’s the problem I kept running into. I had agents that could do the work. They just didn’t know my work. Every session started from scratch, and every session I was re-explaining things that a human teammate would have absorbed in their first week.

Trust on Byron DG — The Upstream

Intent Engineering: Giving AI Agents Identity