8 Practical Upgrades to Turn Fragile Chat Loops Into Production-Grade Agents
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-10-02
A practical agent-engineering checklist proposing eight concrete upgrades for production-grade agents: replace fragile chat loops with Temporal state machines for crash resilience; build a dynamic context assembler with strict token budgets across memory, tools, and docs; implement a System-One router handling 95% of triage in milliseconds while escalating only edge cases; write a raw MCP server from scratch to expose databases safely; add trajectory grading in CI that blocks PRs when tool-call sequences deviate from the golden path; insert an inter-agent sanitization proxy to stop cross-agent prompt injection; set a cost kill-switch halting loops above $0.50 projected spend per query; and build a 3-tier memory engine (working, episodic, semantic) with automated eviction and compression.
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