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You Probably Don't Need All of This: Build the Minimum Production Agent Architecture

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Build a Production AI Agent From First Principles: The Complete Reference Architecture
Advanced Agents From First Principles 24: How Do You Release Agent Behavior Safely? Add Behavioral Contracts, Compatibility Checks and Promotion Gates
Advanced Agents From First Principles 23: Your Infrastructure Is Healthy. Why Is the Agent Getting Worse? Detect Behavioral Drift and Roll Back Safely
Advanced Agents From First Principles 22: What Happens When One Dependency Starts Failing? Add Circuit Breakers, Bulkheads and Graceful Degradation
Advanced Agents From First Principles 21: What Happens When Too Many Agents Compete for the Same Resources? Add Admission Control, Quotas and Backpressure
Advanced Agents From First Principles 20: Can Your Agent Coordinate Across Machines Without Duplicating Work? Use Leases, Idempotency and Fencing
Advanced Agents From First Principles 19: Can Your Agent Explore in Parallel Without Creating Chaos? Use Speculative Execution and Early Cancellation
Advanced Agents From First Principles 18: What Should Your Agent Observe Next? Use Expected Value of Information
Advanced Agents From First Principles 17: What Is Your Agent Actually Uncertain About?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 16: Where Should an Agent Spend Its Compute? Build a Dynamic Budget Scheduler
Advanced Agents From First Principles 15: How Do You Optimize an Agent Policy Without Turning It Into Another Black Box?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 14: Can Your Agent Learn From Its Own Trajectories Without Learning the Wrong Lessons?
Advanced Agents From First Principles 13: How Do You Debug an Agent That Made the Wrong Decision? Add Trajectory Observability
Advanced Agents From First Principles 12: Is Your Advanced Agent Actually Better? Benchmark It Under Equal Budgets
Advanced Agents From First Principles 11: Which Advanced Agent Architecture Should You Use? A Practical Selection Guide
Advanced Agents From First Principles 08: Is Your Agent Spending the Same Compute on Every Task? Build Adaptive Agents That Escalate Only When Needed
Advanced Agents From First Principles 25: Can You Reproduce an Agent Run Months Later? Add Deterministic Replay and Provenance
Advanced Agents From First Principles 26: Why Did the Agent Fail? Build an Incident Forensics Pipeline
Advanced Agents From First Principles 27: How Reliable Does an Agent Need to Be? Define SLOs and Error Budgets
Advanced Agents From First Principles 28: Where Should You Spend the Next Engineering Hour? Prioritize Reliability by Risk and Expected Return
Advanced Agents From First Principles 29: When Should an Agent Stop and Ask a Human? Design Authority Boundaries and Escalation
Advanced Agents From First Principles 30: Is This Task Outside Your Agent’s Competence? Build Competence Envelopes and OOD Detection
Advanced Agents From First Principles 31: How Can an Agent Learn New Capabilities Without Expanding Its Own Authority? Use Sandboxed Capability Acquisition
Advanced Agents From First Principles 32: Which Capabilities Are Actually Worth Building? Design a Capability Portfolio
Advanced Agents From First Principles 33: Which Shared Components Actually Unlock More Capability? Build a Capability Dependency Graph

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