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Learn how to deploy long-running AI agents reliably using purpose-built runtime infrastructure. This guide explains durable execution for resuming agent workflows after failures, checkpoint-based memory for short- and long-term state, human-in-the-loop interruption and resumption, and production-grade observability with tracing and replay. It details how LangSmith Deployment (LSD) and Agent Server provide primitives like task queues, persistence via PostgreSQL, RBAC-based multi-tenancy, middleware guardrails, streaming, and cron scheduling. Discover how deepagents deploy packages these capabilities to eliminate infrastructure overhead and enable scalable, fault-tolerant agent systems.

LangSmith introduces reusable evaluators and a library of 30+ evaluator templates to standardize and scale agent evaluation across projects. Teams can define evaluation logic once and apply it across tracing workflows, ensuring consistent safety checks, response quality metrics, and trajectory validation. The templates cover safety (prompt injection, PII, toxicity), response quality, multi-step agent trajectories, user behavior analysis, and multimodal outputs. These evaluators support both online monitoring of production traffic and offline experimentation, enabling teams to detect failures, analyze agent decisions, and continuously improve performance without rebuilding evaluation logic from scratch.

Use evaluation-driven feedback loops to iteratively improve agent harnesses and achieve better generalization in production. Better-Harness treats evals as training data for agents, where each test case provides a learning signal to optimize prompts, tools, and workflows. The system combines curated eval sourcing (hand-written cases, production traces, external datasets), structured tagging for behavioral coverage, and holdout sets to prevent overfitting. It introduces a compound system approach—data sourcing, experiment design, optimization, and human review—to continuously refine agent performance. Key practices include mining production traces for failures, using tagged eval subsets for cost-efficient testing, and pairing automated improvements with human validation to avoid reward hacking and ensure real-world reliability.

Learn how AI agents improve over time by optimizing three distinct layers: model weights, harness infrastructure, and external context/memory. The piece breaks down techniques like SFT and RL for model updates, harness optimization via trace analysis and systems like Meta-Harness, and dynamic context learning through persistent memory, tenant-level configuration, and runtime updates. It highlights practical strategies such as offline evaluation loops, agent trace logging, and 'dreaming' workflows to iteratively refine agent performance without retraining models, emphasizing scalable alternatives to weight updates.

Learn how to systematically improve AI agents using a trace-driven feedback loop powered by LangSmith. The approach centers on collecting execution traces from staging, testing, and production, enriching them with automated evaluations and human annotations, and using those insights to identify failure patterns. Developers then make targeted updates across model prompts, orchestration logic, or context layers, and validate improvements through offline evaluation suites before deployment. Continuous production monitoring with online evals and insights ensures regressions are caught early and performance improves over time. This iterative loop—trace collection, enrichment, debugging, evaluation, and redeployment—enables reliable, data-driven optimization of agent behavior at scale.

Build effective agent evaluation systems by starting with simple, high-signal end-to-end evals and iteratively increasing complexity. Use observability tools like LangSmith to analyze real agent traces, define clear success criteria, and separate capability vs regression evals. Focus heavily on failure analysis by categorizing issues (prompt design, tool interfaces, model limits, or data gaps) before automating evaluation. Leverage evaluation levels—single-step (run), full-turn (trace), and multi-turn (thread)—with trace-level evals as the most practical starting point. Ensure infrastructure issues are ruled out, assign ownership to a domain expert, and validate not just outputs but real-world state changes. This approach improves agent reliability, debugging, and continuous performance optimization.

Learn how to build targeted evaluation systems that directly shape agent behavior by measuring real-world capabilities like tool use, retrieval, and multi-step reasoning. This approach emphasizes curating evals from production traces, dogfooding feedback, and adapted benchmarks, rather than relying on large generic test suites. The system uses categorized evals (e.g., tool_use, memory, retrieval) and metrics such as correctness, step ratio, tool call ratio, latency ratio, and solve rate to assess both accuracy and efficiency. By analyzing traces and defining ideal execution trajectories, teams can iteratively improve agent performance, reduce cost, and prevent regressions while maintaining alignment with production needs.

Deep Agents introduces a tool in its Python SDK and CLI that allows agents to autonomously compress their context windows at optimal moments. Instead of relying on fixed token thresholds, agents can now summarize older context when it becomes less relevant—such as at task boundaries, before large context ingestion, or after extracting key insights. This improves efficiency, reduces context rot, and aligns memory management with the agent’s reasoning process. The system retains recent messages (about 10% of context) while summarizing older interactions, enabling better long-horizon performance without manual intervention or rigid harness tuning.

Learn how to monitor AI agents in production by focusing on conversation-level signals, multi-step trajectories, and real user interactions rather than traditional system metrics. The article explains why agent observability differs from standard APM due to infinite input space and non-deterministic LLM behavior, and highlights the need to capture prompt-response pairs, multi-turn context, and tool usage traces. It also outlines how production traces become the foundation for continuous improvement and scalable evaluation, combining automated evals with selective human review to maintain quality at scale.

AI agents are transforming cloud architecture by shifting cloud architects from hands-on infrastructure management to designing intent-driven, policy-based systems. Autonomous agents now handle provisioning, scaling, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation, moving CloudOps toward AgentOps. Architects increasingly define SLOs, guardrails, compliance policies, and cost constraints while agents execute and optimize infrastructure in real time. The article highlights proactive incident management, automated runbooks, digital twins for simulation, embedded compliance enforcement, and human-in-the-loop governance models as core patterns. Success in this new era requires skills in intent modeling, policy design, agent escalation workflows, and telemetry-driven optimization.

A comprehensive guide to LLM evaluation metrics across foundational models, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. Covers correctness, hallucination, task completion, tool correctness, and LLM-as-a-judge approaches (e.g., G-Eval), with architectural framing and code via DeepEval. Focused on evaluating and operationalizing LLM systems in production.

In the AI/agent era, database sprawl creates operational fragility. Instead of stitching together Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, Kafka, teams should consolidate on Postgres with extensions (pgvector, TimescaleDB, PostGIS). This approach simplifies testing, environment forking, uptime, cost, and operational overhead—key factors for running reliable agentic systems at scale.

This article analyzes operational tradeoffs between MCP tools and skills for agent systems, focusing on setup complexity, execution predictability, latency, scalability, and context management. It frames MCPs as structured, networked execution interfaces and skills as local, behavioral context injection—directly addressing how agents are extended, operated, and managed in practice.

Agent engineering represents a new discipline for turning non-deterministic LLM agents into reliable production systems. This approach emphasizes iterative shipping, production observability, evaluation, runtime infrastructure, memory, and performance measurement—highlighting how teams operationalize agents beyond "it works on my machine."

Agentic AI systems have outpaced architectural thinking required to operate them effectively. These agents differ fundamentally from traditional software: their behavior is not fixed at deployment but continuously shaped by experience, feedback, and context. Traditional DevOps or MLOps principles assume system behavior can be managed through versioning, monitoring, and rollback. This assumption breaks down for Agentic AI systems whose learning trajectories diverge over time, introducing non-determinism that makes system reliability challenging at runtime. CHANGE is a conceptual framework comprising six capabilities for operationalizing Agentic AI systems: Contextualize, Harmonize, Anticipate, Negotiate, Generate, and Evolve. CHANGE provides a foundation for architecting an AgentOps platform to manage the lifecycle of evolving Agentic AI systems.

This project demonstrates converting unstructured documents into a concept-based knowledge graph for Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG). The process covers chunking, LLM-based concept extraction, relationship inference, and local graph construction using an open-source model, enabling more precise, explainable retrieval than vector-only RAG.

A comprehensive guide to LLM evals, drawn from questions asked in our popular course on AI Evals. Covers everything from basic to advanced topics.

Traditional agent browser tools waste tokens and intelligence by forcing models to click, type, and scroll. Smooth CLI introduces a goal-driven interface where agents focus on intent, not UI mechanics. This approach delivers browser automation that is up to 20× faster, 5× cheaper, and designed for the complexity of modern websites.

RAG systems experience failures caused by retrieval poisoning. This analysis evaluates six RAG evaluation frameworks on their ability to detect deceptive negatives, focusing on relevance scoring, ranking metrics, adversarial safety, and how evaluation tooling and prompt design affect agent reliability.

AI agents that make decisions over structured data rely heavily on tabular learning models — but model choice has direct implications for agent reliability, routing, and operational behavior. In this benchmark, we evaluate 7 widely used tabular model families across 19 real-world datasets (~260k rows, 250+ features) to understand which models agents should invoke under different data regimes. Rather than focusing solely on average rank, we analyze win rates to capture dominance — a critical signal when agents must choose models dynamically at runtime. The results reveal that: Foundation models are most effective for agents operating with limited data XGBoost is the most reliable choice for large, numeric-heavy workloads Hybrid datasets at scale remain operationally ambiguous, with multiple viable model choices These findings highlight a core Agent Ops challenge: model selection and routing inside agents is a runtime decision, not a one-time architecture choice. As agents increasingly combine LLM reasoning with structured prediction, understanding the operational strengths and failure modes of tabular models becomes essential for building robust, cost-aware agent systems.

Learn how to build LLM-ready knowledge graphs using FalkorDB to ground AI responses via GraphRAG. This guide covers graph databases, knowledge graph construction, ingestion, deployment, and framework integrations. The focus is on reliable retrieval of private, up-to-date organizational knowledge for GenAI systems.

Research report detailing security vulnerabilities in production agents. Focuses on identity management, unauthorized database access, and the governance gap in 'Shadow AI' agent deployments.

Practical guide on structural governance for IT automation. Discusses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a control layer for agent-to-system interactions and hard execution constraints.

Technical analysis of the stateful orchestration required for agents. Discusses sub-millisecond state access, memory architecture (short/long-term), and sub-millisecond vector retrieval for RAG.

Explores the 'Digital Assembly Line' concept enabled by the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It discusses how AgentOps enables proactive resolution in logistics and telecommunications through integrated sequence monitoring.

Detailed framework for the MLOps to AgentOps transition. Covers the 'Digital Assembly Line' approach, including decision logs, version control for prompts, and reproducibility of agentic states.

Analyst report on the shift from human-in-the-loop to autonomous infrastructure management. It outlines the necessity of 'Policy-Aware Automation' and standardized orchestration layers.

A critical review of the top 2026 platforms (Braintrust, Vellum, Fiddler, Helicone, Galileo). It highlights the move toward 'time-travel debugging' and integrating automated evaluations directly into the production trace pipeline.

IBM analysis on how observability platforms are becoming 'intelligent' by using agents to monitor other agents. It covers the rise of open observability standards and using telemetry for proactive remediation of agent failures.

The 2026 shift moves from 'Pilot-ware' trap of 2025 toward 'Digital Assembly Lines.' This report focuses on reliability in long-running workflows, identity management for agents, and upfront human-in-the-loop (HITL) architecture for enterprise agentic AI deployment.

A security-first look at AgentOps, discussing the emergence of 'Agentic SOCs.' It addresses the risks of 'excessive agency' and the necessity of real-time guardrails to prevent agents from being used in polymorphic attack chains.

Though started in late 2025, this 2026 guide focuses on the 'Advanced Monitoring' phase, detailing the implementation of distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry and cost-attribution frameworks for multi-agent clusters.

AprielGuard is an 8B safety model designed to detect adversarial attacks and content risks in agentic LLM systems. The model identifies prompt injection, jailbreaks, memory poisoning, and tool manipulation threats. AprielGuard works on tool calls and reasoning traces, offering both explainable and low-latency modes for production deployment.

Traditional systems of record will persist, but agents require a new operational layer: persistent, queryable decision traces. Context graphs capture exceptions, approvals, and precedents across systems, positioning agent-native platforms as emerging systems of record for decisions rather than data alone.