Section

Production

What an agent needs before you leave it running: clear stop reasons, safe retries, traces, offline tests, evals, injection defenses, approval, and runs that survive a crash.

Launch checklist Twenty-three checks for an agent that will run unattended and spend money, grouped by what can go wrong, each with the chapter that builds it and, where the book measured one, the failure that shows why it matters.chapters 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15

These pages cover the work between an agent that runs on your laptop and one you can leave running on its own.