Product Radar ED.01 WK42 12 OCT

Preview build. Draft: built from the tools and practices I use every day. I am confirming each verdict this month.

Practices

Model tier per task

Assigning each agent task to the smallest model that can do it reliably.

ADOPTOn the radar since 12 Oct 2026Draft
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Why Adopt

Each agent gets a pinned model. Haiku does small checks, Sonnet gathers evidence and Opus writes code.

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ADOPTTRIALASSESSHOLDW4212 Oct 2026: New
  1. Added in AdoptPinned on every agent by a hook.

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Also in Practices · Adopt

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  • Company brainKeeping a company's strategy, decisions and facts in documents that agents read before they act.
  • Guard hooks for agentsScripts that run before or after an agent's tool calls to block or flag risky actions.
  • Parallel agents in worktreesRunning several coding agents at once, each in its own git worktree and its own context.