Evidence the run may read
- Approved public sources
- Existing competitive baseline
- Relevant customer decision criteria
production blueprint · marketing
Competitor monitoring brief agent blueprint.
Summarize dated, approved public competitor evidence and identify implications without presenting inference as fact.
Search intent: AI agent for competitor monitoring
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01 · the contract
Start from a bounded job, not a blank chat box.
trigger
A scheduled competitive review or material public update occurs.
owner
marketing owner
agent stops at
Product marketing approves internal distribution and any customer-facing comparison update.
KPI · decrease
stale comparison claims (claims). Count active comparison claims past their review date.
outputs
Artifacts the run must produce
- Dated change digest
- Evidence and inference separation
- Questions for product and sales
02 · topology
Small specialists. Named handoffs. One accountable decision.
Each stage produces an artifact another stage can inspect. The final node is a person, not an autonomous write to an external system.
- 01
intake
Validate and normalize the competitor monitoring brief inputs.
- 02
source monitor
Produce the dated change digest.
- 03
change analyst
Produce the evidence and inference separation.
- 04
product marketing reviewer
Challenge the competitor monitoring brief result and prepare an approval packet.
- 05
marketing owner
Product marketing approves internal distribution and any customer-facing comparison update.
intake→ validated input packet →source-monitor
source-monitor→ Dated change digest →change-analyst
change-analyst→ Evidence and inference separation →product-marketing-reviewer
product-marketing-reviewer→ approval packet with evidence references →human-approver
03 · authority
Grant the run only what this case needs.
Source material is read-only. Drafts land in a case-specific output path. Tools may read or propose; the human gate owns the external write.
case inputs
workspace/marketing/competitor-monitoring-brief/inputs/**Read only the evidence attached to this workflow instance.
case outputs
workspace/marketing/competitor-monitoring-brief/outputs/**Write drafts and evidence artifacts without modifying source records.
approved tools
marketing:competitor-monitoring-brief:read-or-proposeInvoke only tools explicitly granted for this run; external writes remain gated.
04 · implementation
A private, bounded starting manifest.
The blueprint starts private, caps its DAG, disables replanning, and exposes no public endpoint. Add only the tools and data adapters this workflow has approved.
a2a.yamlsafe starting point
name: marketing-competitor-monitoring-brief
version: 0.1.0
entrypoint: agent:BlueprintAgent
expose:
public: false
composition:
planning: deterministic_dag
max_nodes: 6
max_parallel: 1
max_replans: 005 · acceptance test
Pass only with evidence.
- 01
Evidence traceability
Every material conclusion cites an input artifact or a scoped tool result from this run.
- 02
Every competitor statement is dated, directly sourced, and limited to what the source supports.
Every competitor statement is dated, directly sourced, and limited to what the source supports.
- 03
Approval boundary
The run stops at a proposal and records the human decision before any external side effect.
failure containment
Stop small. Preserve the evidence.
A material claim depends on an inaccessible, ambiguous, or secondary source.
Containment: Return a partial result with unresolved items; do not broaden scope or perform an external write.
Operator: Attach the missing evidence, narrow the brief, or explicitly approve a new scoped run.
A required input or tool grant is unavailable.
Containment: Stop the affected branch and preserve completed artifacts in the case output workspace.
Operator: Grant only the missing resource or continue with that branch marked out of scope.
06 · proof
Sign the run facts. Keep money in the billing ledger.
Current platform receipts sign caller identity or classification, skill, bounded input evidence, verified grant IDs when present, outcome or result preview, and timing. Optional file, tool, artifact, handoff, evaluation, and review fields require separate instrumentation and are not populated by default. Price, fees, payouts, and later human approvals remain separate platform records.
The example uses only fields populated by the current platform sealing paths. It is illustrative, not a record of a real customer run.
ExecutionReceipt · selected fieldsEd25519 token
{
"receipt_id": "rcpt_01J...",
"schema_version": 1,
"agent_name": "marketing-competitor-monitoring-brief",
"caller": "user:workflow-owner",
"task_id": "case_competitor_monitoring_brief",
"skill_name": "competitor_monitoring_brief",
"input_hash": "4d7c...9a2f",
"grant_ids": [
"grt_case_inputs",
"grt_tool_propose"
],
"status": "ok",
"result_preview": "Output prepared: Dated change digest. Human decision remains separate.",
"elapsed_ms": 4218
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