Broad agents drift
The temptation is always the same: one powerful agent that can do anything. But as scope broadens, reliability breaks — its prompt must pull in many directions, its context balloons, and the agent drifts, forgetting its remit. Carolverse makes the opposite bet: NARROW agents, each harnessed to a single remit, with small prompts, lean contexts, and hard boundaries on authority — so behaviour is predictable, testable, reviewable, trustworthy. Narrowness makes accountability real: you know exactly what each agent should and should not do, so failures are attributable, and reviews between agents only work when remits are narrow enough to actually check. Forge writes code; Argus tests it; Themis guards rules; Archon owns design. In agentic systems, reliability scales inverse to breadth: prefer many narrow, harnessed agents over one broad one. Bound the prompt, bound the context, bound the authority, and you get trustworthy behaviour. Power comes from composition of narrow specialists, not from one clever generalist.
