Cognition, Planning, and Memory

NCP-AAI · 20 questions

• A multi-day variance hearing assistant must recall exhibits across sessions. What memory approach fits?
• A 311 agent must track the live ticket fields and also recall similar past tickets. How should those memory roles differ?
• Before a housing-intake agent writes to long-term memory, what privacy step should run?
• Token overflow drops a resident’s address mid-311 chat. What short-term memory fix should the team add?
• An appeals agent must handle “challenge this assessment.” Which reasoning approach fits best?
• Fee-logic agents need chain-of-thought internally. How should that reasoning appear to residents?
• A storm-response agent must restore service. Which reasoning pattern structures the work?
• Verbose chain-of-thought from a city attorney’s assistant begins showing draft legal theories to residents. What should change?
• A business-license agent must not skip tax clearance. What planning strategy enforces that gate?
• A building-permit agent planned an inspection for next Tuesday, but the scheduling tool reports no open slots that week. What should the multi-step planner do?
• A community-grant agent must collect bank letters, budgets, and board resolutions, then wait for a compliance officer’s sequential review. How should planning combine those phases?
• A demolition-request planner proposes scheduling a wrecking crew before checking historic-status flags in the parcel system. What planning defect does that expose?
• A rental-assistance workflow spans income verification, landlord confirmation, and payment authorization across agencies. Why should orchestration checkpoint after each verification step?
• During a zoning-questions session, the agent already retrieved three ordinance sections. How should shared orchestration state improve efficiency?
• A human clerk takes over a stalled business-license case mid-flow. What must stateful orchestration support when the agent resumes?
• A fee-payment step in a permit orchestration may retry after a timeout. What safeguard prevents charging the resident twice?
• A 311 trash-day agent repeatedly fails on holiday weeks. Based on that feedback, how should it adapt its reasoning strategy?
• Code inspectors repeatedly correct an agent that cites violations from undated photos. What experience-based adaptation should the agent adopt?
• Resident satisfaction scores drop on housing-assistance denial letters that feel abrupt. How should outcome feedback reshape the agent’s planning style?
• Permit reviews in certain ZIP codes often fail late when floodplain overlays are checked last. What adaptation should the agent learn from that geographic pattern?