── Production-Grade Agent Engineering ──
Crafting autonomous AI agents with production-grade architecture, rigorous testing, and principled engineering.
> ../deploy_agent.shEvery agent ships with monitoring, retries, fallbacks, and graceful degradation. Built for the day after launch, not the demo.
Decisions trace back to first principles, paper citations, and replicable benchmarks. No cargo-cult prompting.
Tool contracts, SOUL.md files, and architecture diagrams are published. The work withstands public scrutiny.
§ Research Files
Field notes from agents in production. The bugs, the fixes, the architecture decisions.
§ Methodology
From sketch to deploy. Each layer has its own discipline, file, and review.
Layer I
Visual Architecture
Whiteboard the agent's mental model: states, decisions, tool surface, escape hatches.
Layer II
Contracts & Documentation
Write the SOUL.md, tool contracts, eval criteria, and the deployment checklist.
Layer III
Technical Diagrams
Diagram-as-code for the data flow, state machine, and error pathways. Versioned in git.
Layer IV
Implementation
Production code: typed tool calls, retry policies, structured logs, rollback plan.
If one is weak, the design isn't finished.
states · transitions · invariants
schemas · errors · idempotency
indexing · ranking · grounding
retries · circuit breakers
sandboxing · prompt-injection
traces · evals · replay
users · adoption · trust
the discipline you'd add
§ Deployments
Agents currently running in production environments.
Document intake agent that classifies, summarizes, and routes 1,200+ cases per week with 99.4% accuracy.
Dispatch coordinator handling exceptions, rerouting, and customer communication across 9 time zones.
Insurance pre-auth agent — submits, follows up, escalates. 38% reduction in claim time.
Cloud cost auditor agent that monitors, recommends, and (with approval) executes optimizations.
§ Open Source & Community
The tools, the writing, the room where the work happens.
Discord
Operators, researchers, and engineers shipping agents. Daily debugging, weekly demos.
Join the room →Weekly Signal
One email, every Sunday. The most important agent-engineering links of the week.
Subscribe →§ Engagement
A focused, two-week review of your current agent system. Concrete findings, prioritized fixes.
$5,000 — $8,000
2 weeks · fixed scope
System map of every agent, tool, and decision boundary
Reliability audit: failure modes, retries, observability gaps
Security review: prompt injection, sandboxing, data exfiltration
Prioritized fix list with effort estimates and a 30-day plan
§ Go Deeper
Start here instead.
The 20-question document we use to define every agent before any code is written. Download it free.
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