A practical guide to AI agent feature flags: what to gate, how to roll changes out safely, and how to reduce blast radius when prompts, tools, routing, or approval logic change in production.
Posts for: #Production
AI Agent State Machine: How to Stop Production Workflows From Turning Into Guesswork
A practical guide to AI agent state machines: why they matter, which states to define, and how they make production workflows easier to debug, govern, and trust.
AI Agent Confidence Scores: How to Show Uncertainty Without Faking Precision
A practical guide to AI agent confidence: why fake percentages are dangerous, what to expose instead, and how to use confidence, freshness, provenance, and missing-data rules to make agent decisions safer in production.
AI Agent Dead Letter Queue: How to Catch Failed Runs Before They Disappear
A practical guide to AI agent dead letter queues: what they are, when to use them, what metadata to capture, and how they help operators recover failed runs without guessing.
AI Agent Circuit Breakers: How to Stop One Bad Run From Becoming a Production Incident
A practical guide to AI agent circuit breakers: where to put them, what signals should trip them, and how to contain blast radius before one bad workflow turns into downtime, duplicate actions, or runaway cost.
AI Agent Fallback Strategy: How to Keep Production Work Moving When the Agent Fails
A practical guide to AI agent fallback strategy: when to retry, when to degrade gracefully, when to hand off to a human, and how to keep production workflows moving instead of stalling or making bad decisions.
AI Agent Timeouts: How to Stop Stuck Runs From Turning Into Production Incidents
A practical guide to AI agent timeouts: where to set them, how to combine them with retries and fallbacks, and the production patterns that stop slow runs from turning into outages or runaway cost.
AI Agent Staging Environment: How to Test Production Behavior Without Touching Production
A practical guide to building an AI agent staging environment: environment separation, safe test data, realistic workflow simulation, promotion checks, and the mistakes that make staging useless.
AI Agent Canary Deployment: How to Roll Out Changes Without Breaking Production
A practical guide to AI agent canary deployment: how to test new prompts, tools, and workflows on a small slice of production traffic before a full rollout.
AI Agent Rate Limits: How to Stop Cost Spikes, API Pileups, and Runaway Loops
A practical guide to AI agent rate limits: where to throttle, how to separate model limits from action limits, and the production patterns that keep agent systems fast without letting them melt your budget or downstream tools.