📚 The Book Pattern: Progressive Disclosure for AI Agents (opens in new tab)

You are standing in a bookshop holding a technical book you might buy. You have about thirty seconds before you decide. So you do three things. You read the back cover to see what the book promises. You flip to the introduction to check the author's rules and how they think. You scan the table of contents to see if the parts you actually care about are in there. If those three pass the test, you pay for it. Later, when you sit down to read, you study the chapter that matches the problem you'r...