Enterprise agent programs have spent three years excited about building agents and almost no time on the question that decides their value: what exactly is the definition of done, and who checks it? A new paper from Purdue answers it structurally, completion as a validated workspace state, and this note replicates it independently with a different agent family on the authors' released harness, unmodified. The gate passed, refused four genuinely wrong results on the way, and the note separates what is science from the five practices an enterprise program can adopt now.
Read the note ›Applied Intelligence is an independent practitioner publication. Each note takes one piece of real engineering, an agent, an adapter, a gateway, a gate, and reports what held and what did not, with the magnitudes kept honest and the structural claims stated so another team can re-derive them.
The register is deliberate: calm on the surface, hard engineering underneath. A finding leads; the evidence follows; the method and the limits sit where a reader can check them. The companion repositories are artefacts, one click away, never decoration: sdlc-dial-adapter and agentic-memory-mcp.
Written by Arseny Gorokh. The notes draw on real systems and name the public platforms they study; all client-specific material is excluded, and the notes are not official publications of any employer.