9 articles tagged Agent
Agent reliability: 7 metrics users trust
Seven agent reliability metrics that reflect user trust, how to compute each from existing logs, and which to instrument first.
16 min read · 14 October 2026
Agent audit trails: event log vs state snapshots
Event sourcing and state snapshots solve different audit problems for AI agents. Compare causal reconstruction, debugging fidelity, cost, and replay limits.
13 min read · 12 October 2026
Multi-agent systems: why failures hide
Why multi-agent LLM pipelines fail silently, and how per-agent tracing, schema validation, budget enforcement, and loop detection make those failures loud.
13 min read · 18 September 2026
Ship evals before your agent ships
Agent evals fail when they only test the happy path. Build outcome-based evals from shadow traffic, wire them into CI, and catch regressions before users do.
16 min read · 31 August 2026
Agent permissions: the mistake that breaks production
How to build desktop agents that survive no-admin Windows environments: COM automation, per-user installs, heartbeats, and failure design, with code.
17 min read · 30 July 2026
Agent auth: the silent deployment killer
How agent identity breaks under jitter, power loss, and low-end devices, and the fallback, rotation, and caching patterns that keep auth working.
13 min read · 30 July 2026
Agents keep breaking prod: 3 boundary rules you still need
Agents that mutate external state fail silently when 2xx is mistaken for completion. Three boundary rules: outcome polling, schema drift gates, atomic claims.
14 min read · 17 July 2026
Agent context: short-term vs long-term memory
Compare Redis-style short-term agent context with Postgres event logs: latency, durability, auditability, cost, and how to measure each.
15 min read · 9 July 2026
Detect lazy agents without false alarms
Success/fail gates miss agents that keep running while producing harmful output. Measure outcomes instead, with a worked predictor design and decision rules.
14 min read · 4 July 2026