agentsop-code-execution-decision

What problem does it solve?

Prevents LM agents from doing multi-step arithmetic in prose (silent wrong numbers) and from wasting sandbox runs on judgment tasks (over-coding), by providing a clear decision rubric for when to emit-and-execute code versus reason in natural language.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Deterministic gate: routes each step to either code execution (computable, verifiable outcomes) or prose reasoning (judgment, taste, open-ended synthesis).
• Mixed-step decomposition: splits tasks that contain both a computable component (code) and a judgment component (prose).
• Operational safety guidance: includes anti-patterns like never forgetting to feed computed results back into the LM, avoiding unbounded retry loops, and not assuming unsandboxed REPL tools are safe.

Quick Start

Tell your agent designer to use the "single verifiable answer" gate from this skill whenever you decide between Program-of-Thought/code interpreter execution and natural-language reasoning for each step.