Python
The lingua franca that agents write best and the default format for verifiable automation.
In one sentence
The dominant language of the AI ecosystem and the lingua franca that agents write best. In Cognitive Enterprise practice, Python scripts are the default format for verifiable automation.
Before
Manual step someone remembers
What it does
Versioned, readable script
After
Verifiable, repeatable automation
Example
The script that runs the eval suite, the one that exports the batch of letters, the one that compares cost week over week: all in Python, versioned alongside the prompts.
In a script, automation can be read, reviewed, and tested. Without it, it remains a manual step that depends on someone remembering to do it.
In practice
- Every manual step repeated three times becomes a script.
- Script in the repository, with one command to run it and one line saying what it does.
- If the agent wrote the script, it writes the test too, but you review it.
How to make it tangible
Every recurring manual step becomes a script in the repository, with one command to run it.
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