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Agent Studio rewards a few habits. None are hard, but skipping them is how a program turns into an expensive black box instead of a proven answer. These are the four that matter most.
The thread running through all four: you are steering a fleet, not running a job. Every habit is about putting your judgment where it’s worth the most and letting the agents carry the rest.

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1. Frame programs big

Bring meaty, multi-week questions, not one-off tasks. Agent Studio is built to divide a real problem into modules and run them in parallel. That structure is wasted on “pull this table.”
Why it pays off: a program keeps every plot, result, and decision in one place, so the work compounds. Ten one-off tasks leave ten orphaned notebooks; one program leaves a knowledge base.

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2. Start thin, then go wide

Make the first module deliberately small, just a one-week cohort or a single source, and confirm the agents have the right access, tables, and joins before you let a later module run across a year of data.
Why it pays off: an access gap or a wrong join caught on a thin first module costs minutes. The same mistake discovered after a full-dataset run costs the whole run.

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3. Checkpoint to your trust

Set the decision boundaries to match the stakes and how much you trust the work. Encode your standing habits, “cheap query before expensive,” “review every module,” so Pavo enforces them for you instead of you catching lapses by hand.
Why it pays off: the right checkpoints are the difference between a fleet you can leave running overnight and one you have to babysit. Encode the rule once; never police it again. See Checkpoints & decisions.

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4. Curate what compounds

A fleet produces results faster than anyone can absorb. Accept what is load-bearing, push what’s worth keeping to the Knowledge Hub, and let the dead ends rest. Your job shifts from doing every investigation to curating what the fleet produces.
Why it pays off: an uncurated pile of results is noise; a curated, accepted set is the base the next program starts from. Curation is what turns volume into compounding.

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The habit loop

1

Frame

Turn a real decision into a program with a scientific frame.
2

Approve

Get the plan and its checkpoints right before anything runs.
3

Steer

Work at the altitude the stakes deserve: the Director for the small stuff, a Task Studio for the load-bearing calls.
4

Curate

Accept and keep what matters, so the next program starts smarter.
Done consistently, these turn Agent Studio from a way to run agents into a way to compound applied-science work, where every program leaves your team knowing more than the last one found it.

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Next steps

Quickstart

Run a program end to end for the first time.

Overview

Revisit how the pieces fit together.