A practical guide to AI agent schema design: how statuses, IDs, state transitions, and field rules shape whether an agent can operate reliably in production.

If your AI agent relies on a task board as its source of truth, you’re building theater. Real autonomous systems need an execution ledger, step state, receipts, and deterministic handoffs.

Most AI agents fail in production for a boring reason: nobody can verify what they actually did. Here’s the receipts-first rule for building agents people will trust, debug, and pay for.