Agent Ops Playbook

The complete production operations playbook for AI agents — now with copy-paste starter templates. Includes ready-to-use AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, USER.md, HEARTBEAT.md, and memory state tracking files that transform your agent in 5 minutes. Covers session discipline, sub-agent spawning, cron vs heartbeat patterns, workspace organization, safety boundaries, communication etiquette, memory fundamentals, tool integration, and a full troubleshooting FAQ for the most common pain points. The operational knowledge that separates a toy chatbot from a real production operator — learned the hard way, distilled into patterns you can use on day one.