Production agents may need a new PaaS layer built around audit and recovery
percoAi · reddit · 2026-07-21
Why production agents may need their own PaaS layer
The post argues that production AI agents have operational needs that differ from ordinary web apps, so they may require a platform layer beyond standard PaaS.
The hard problems
- where agent state lives
- how tool calls are authorized
- how risky actions get approved
- how side effects are recorded
- how retries avoid duplicate writes
- how failed runs are resumed or rolled back
- how traces become eval cases
- how policies are versioned and replayed
- how humans intervene without breaking the workflow
Proposed platform primitives
- durable execution
- tool gateways
- permission envelopes
- approval checkpoints
- idempotency keys
- execution receipts
- recovery records
- eval feedback loops
- policy traces
The core argument is that agent runtimes need an operational control plane, not just compute hosting.
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