exact calls, guarded writes, real tool tests

self.md radar — 2026-07-03 agents are being pulled toward the boring part of autonomy: exact calls, guarded writes, and tests that run against the same tools they will touch later. three useful receipts landed around that pressure. one paper trains small models on Jira and Confluence-shaped tool traces instead of hoping a general chat model remembers the API. another asks customer-service agents…