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My agent refused to run a single action. The @Condition gate was FALSE and nothing in the agent could ever make it TRUE, because Embabel builds an action's effects from what you declare, not from what your condition reads.

28 Jul 2026 · 7 min read

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Building agents on the JVM with Embabel · Part 1

One Goal Too Many: Learning Embabel's Planner the Hard Way

My first afternoon with Embabel, the JVM agent framework. I added one action too many, the planner quietly stopped early, and a cryptic get(...) must not be null taught me how GOAP, goals, and AgentInvocation actually fit together.

24 Jul 2026 · 8 min read

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The condition nothing could satisfy: custom @Condition gates in Embabel

One Goal Too Many: Learning Embabel's Planner the Hard Way