The Agent Said “Done.” Nothing Changed. Agents That Survive Production ·
The Agent Said “Done.” Nothing Changed. Agents That Survive Production · Part 1 of 4 : Verify the outcome before celebrating the response.
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Agents That Survive Production
Four engineering guides to agents that actually complete the job: verify state after tool calls, retry uncertain operations safely, recover from durable checkpoints, and measure whether multiple agents improve outcomes. Each article includes a concrete failure and a test.
Posts in this series
What Should an Agent Remember?
Agents That Survive Production · Part 3 of 4 Separate useful context from the durable facts needed to resume work.
The Tool Timed Out. Should the Agent Retry?
Agents That Survive Production · Part 2 of 4 A timeout tells you what the caller knows, not what the server did.
One Agent or Five? Measure Before You Multiply.
Agents That Survive Production · Part 4 of 4 Separate the value of parallel work from the value of spending more tokens.
