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Browse 10 articles tagged with “agent-infrastructure”.

Articles tagged “agent-infrastructure

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Operations·15 min read read

74% of Production Agents Still Rely on Human Evaluation

A survey of 306 practitioners reveals most production agents are far simpler than expected. The eval gap isn't a tooling problem. It's a trust problem.

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Operations·18 min read read

What to Trace When Your AI Agent Hits Production

OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions are the production standard for agent tracing. What to instrument, what to skip, and what breaks — from a 2 AM debugging war story.

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Operations·16 min read read

Your AI Agent Costs $13K/Month. Here's the Fix.

A production customer-service agent burned $13,247 in one month. Prompt caching, model routing, batch processing, and plan-and-execute architecture cut it to $1,100. Real pricing math for every technique.

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Tools & MCP·13 min read read

Why Browser Agents Waste 89% of Their Tokens

Browser agents burn 1,500-2,000 tokens per screenshot. Chrome 146's navigator.modelContext API lets websites expose structured tools instead, cutting token usage by 89% and raising task accuracy to 98%. Here's how WebMCP works.

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Operations·28 min read read

AI Agent Observability: What to Monitor When Your Agent Goes Live

Build a production observability pipeline for AI agents. Covers latency, token usage, tool success rates, conversation quality, drift detection, structured logging, alerting strategies, and the critical difference between LLM and agent observability.

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Testing & Evaluation·24 min read

AI Agent Testing: How to Evaluate Agents Before They Talk to Customers

A practical guide to testing AI agents before production — scenario-based testing with AI personas, scorecard evaluation, regression suites, edge case generation, and CI/CD integration.

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Tools & MCP·26 min read read

AI Agent Tools: MCP, OpenAPI, and Tool Management That Actually Scales

How production AI agents discover, execute, and manage tools — from MCP protocol to OpenAPI auto-importing, security sandboxing, and multi-tenant tool infrastructure.

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Tools & MCP·25 min read

MCP Deep Dive: Advanced Patterns for Agent Tool Integration

Production MCP patterns for teams who've built their first server and need to scale it — OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, Streamable HTTP transport, gateways, sampling, dynamic tool registration, and multi-tenant security.

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Agent Architecture·28 min read read

Multimodal AI Agents: Voice, Vision, and Text in Production

How to architect multimodal AI agents that process voice, vision, and text simultaneously — from STT→LLM→TTS pipelines to vision integration, latency budgets, and production fusion strategies.

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Agent Architecture·22 min read

How Multimodal Voice AI Works: From Audio-Only to Vision-Aware Agents

How multimodal voice AI combines speech, vision, and text into a single agent — architecture patterns, latency tradeoffs, and TypeScript code you can run.

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