Articles tagged “production-agents”
7 articles
How to Build Agent Interrupt and Approval Checkpoints
How to pause an AI agent before high-stakes actions, persist full state through the approval window, and resume cleanly. Covers interrupt gates, approval queues, checkpointing, and EU AI Act compliance for production CX agents.
How to Build Idempotent Tool Calls for AI Agents
Naive retry logic charges customers twice, sends duplicate emails, and fires double webhooks. Here's how to build idempotent tool calls for AI agents with idempotency keys, deduplication, and safe retries.
Your Agent's Context Window Is RAM, Not Storage
Most agent failures trace back to one mistake: treating the context window like a database. Here's the RAM model that fixes attention dilution, latency spikes, and ballooning costs.
MCP Without a Gateway Is a Production Liability
Raw MCP is great for prototyping. But production agents need audit trails, per-user identity, tool-level RBAC, and rate limiting, none of which the spec provides. Here's the gateway pattern that fills the gap.
How to Build Production-Safe Credentials for AI Agents
After PocketOS lost its production database to a nine-second AI agent error, here's the credential model that would have stopped it: vaults, scoping, RBAC, and boundary tests.
The Agent Development Lifecycle: Ship, Observe, Improve
Shipping an AI agent is easy. Keeping it reliable after launch is where most teams struggle. The ADLC gives you a structured approach: Intent, Build, Evaluate, Deploy, Observe -- and then do it again.
How MCP Tool Descriptions Break Your Agent
New research shows 97% of MCP tool descriptions have quality issues that hurt agent accuracy. Here's what the smells look like, why they matter, and how to fix them.
The Signal Briefing
Un email por semana. Cómo los equipos líderes de CS, ingresos e IA están convirtiendo conversaciones en decisiones. Benchmarks, playbooks y lo que funciona en producción.
