01
Model the problem
We map the workflow into an explicit graph: what the agent is allowed to decide, what
must stay deterministic, where a human approves. Ninety percent of agent failures are
scoping failures wearing a prompt costume.
- Task decomposition
- Tool inventory
- Failure budget
02
Wire the tools
Every capability becomes a typed, versioned, individually testable tool — usually an
MCP server so the same integration works across Claude, your IDE and your production
runtime. Strict schemas, idempotency keys, and errors the model can actually act on.
- MCP servers
- A2A handoffs
- AG-UI events
- Idempotency
03
Evaluate before you ship
A golden dataset from your real traffic, LLM-as-judge scoring calibrated against human
labels, plus adversarial cases for injection and loop behaviour. No prompt change merges
without a green run.
- Golden sets
- Regression gates
- Red teaming
04
Deploy durably
Checkpointed execution so a pod eviction at minute forty doesn't lose the run. Streaming
to the client, budget ceilings per invocation, and a kill switch that actually works mid-flight.
- Checkpointing
- Budget caps
- Kill switch
05
Observe & iterate
Traces flow into OpenTelemetry. Every anomalous run is replayable locally against the
exact tool responses it saw. Weekly, the worst traces become new eval cases — the loop
closes and quality compounds.
- OTel traces
- Run replay
- Eval flywheel