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For a year, every AI feature in Parthenon spoke to a model the same way: build a prompt, send it, get one answer back. Abby answers a question. The publication writer drafts a paragraph. Useful — but fundamentally a vending machine. You put a prompt in, a completion comes out, and the model never gets to look around, use a tool, or change its mind.

This milestone changes that. Parthenon now runs genuine agentic copilots — built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK, the same autonomous loop that powers Claude Code — inside two workflows: the Study Designer and the Publication assistant. The agent decides which tools to call, iterates (search → draft → validate → refine), keeps a session across turns, streams its work to the browser, and — critically — asks for permission before it writes anything. It ships on a reusable, profile-agnostic core, behind a super-admin runtime switch, with PHP still holding the pen on every database write.

This post is the full story: the architecture, the four pull requests that built it, the human-in-the-loop approval gate, and the engineering discipline (and bugs) along the way.