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Adaptive Thinking

An inference behavior where a frontier model self-scales its reasoning depth and tool-use budget to match the complexity of the prompt, without the operator flipping a manual extended-thinking or test-time-compute switch.

Agent Self-Verification

The pattern in which an agentic AI system runs its own pass of checks against its own output before it asks the operator to look.

Autourgia

From the classical Greek αὐτουργία, the workman's discipline of doing the work with his own hands, the craft that travels because it is inside the workman, not in his tools.

Dynamic Workflow

A JavaScript orchestration script that Claude writes and a runtime executes to fan a complex task across tens to hundreds of parallel subagents, keeping intermediate state outside the conversation.

Epimeleia

The Greek word for diligent, sustained, attentive care, used by the Stoics for the discipline of the self and by the New Testament for the stewardship of a household or a flock, especially in the absence of the one who entrusted the charge.

Model Arbitrage

The practice of deliberately routing different phases of an AI task to different models based on the price-to-quality ratio each model offers for that specific phase.

Paideia

The Greek philosophical and biblical word for formation: the long shaping of a person into wisdom and virtue through disciplined practice and correction, in contrast to the modern instinct to be filled with content or served by tools.

Phronesis

The Greek word for practical wisdom, the capacity to deliberate well about what is good and expedient in the actual circumstances of a life, distinguished by Aristotle from theoretical knowledge and from craft skill.

Scheduled Task

A saved prompt paired with a cron-style or event trigger that lets a chatbot or terminal agent wake itself up, run a workflow, and surface the result without a human pressing send.

Subagent

An autonomous AI agent that a parent agent spawns to handle one bounded task, usually in parallel with sibling subagents, then return a structured result for the parent to synthesize.

Techne

The Greek word for applied craft or skill, distinguished from theoretical knowledge, used in Scripture and philosophy to name the embodied capacity to make something well.