From chatbot to agent: the production checklist
Define tools, permissions, approval steps, and failure modes. Add evals, logging, and safe rollback.
Tags: agents, guardrails, observability
Short, actionable posts built from delivery experience.
Define tools, permissions, approval steps, and failure modes. Add evals, logging, and safe rollback.
Tags: agents, guardrails, observability
Use citations, curated sources, access controls, and “answerable/unanswerable” classification.
Tags: retrieval, citations, grounding
Prompt injection, data exfiltration, insecure tool calls—mapped to mitigations and monitoring.
Tags: OWASP, injection, audit logs
Track datasets, metrics, bias checks, and post-deploy drift alerts with retrain pipelines.
Tags: monitoring, evaluation, governance
Right-size compute, cache smartly, autoscale, use spot where safe, and enforce budget guardrails.
Tags: FinOps, scalability