Speculative Tool Execution with Safe Rollback
An agent can sometimes guess the next tool call and start it before the plan is confirmed, hiding latency when the guess is right. The technique is only safe when the speculative action can be discarded without side effects: reads and idempotent calls are fine, while writes, spending and messages are not. This skill covers choosing what may be run speculatively, discarding a result whose premise changed, and keeping the confirmation step for anything irreversible.
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Run ahead only where the guess can be thrown away
Speculative Tool Execution with Safe Rollback# Speculative Tool Execution When the next step is predictable, starting it early hides latency. The rule that keeps this safe is simple: a speculative call may only be run if its effect can be discarded. Reads and idempotent lookups qualify. Writes, spends and messages to people do not, because a
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