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Agent Audit Logging: What to Record and What to Redact
When an agent does something surprising, the log is the only account of what happened. What a usable agent audit record contains, and what it must not.
Agent Caching Strategies: Prompt, Tool and Result Layers
Agents resend the whole transcript every turn and re-read the same files repeatedly. Three caching layers fix that, and each has different keying rules.
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Agent Checkpointing: Saving Work a Long Session Can Lose
Long agent runs die halfway. What to checkpoint, where the boundaries belong, and why external side effects break the snapshot model entirely.
· 8 min readAgent Concurrency Control: Pools, Locks and Fair Slots
Unbounded agent spawning turns a fast run into a retry storm. Worker pools, semaphores, resource locks and the fairness problem nobody plans for.
· 9 min readAgent Failure Modes: A Taxonomy Worth Memorising
Agents fail in about eight recognisable ways, and each one needs a different fix. A field guide to spotting them from a trace and knowing what to change.
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Agent Fan-Out Limits: How Wide Is Too Wide
Fan-out looks free until the orchestrator stops reading results properly. The four ceilings that cap parallel agents, and how to find yours before production does.
· 9 min readAgent File System Access: Designing the Blast Radius
The filesystem is an agent's most consequential tool surface. Path containment, read and write asymmetry, and why files are an injection vector.
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Agent Handoff Patterns: Passing Work Without Losing It
Every handoff between agents is a compression step. Four patterns for transferring control, what each one drops, and how to build a handoff packet.
· 9 min readAgent Loop Anatomy: The Twenty Lines That Run Everything
Every coding agent is the same short loop. Understanding its structure tells you where they fail and which parts are worth engineering.
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Agent Network Access Control: Egress Is the Real Risk
An agent with a shell and open network egress can exfiltrate anything it can read. How to scope outbound access without breaking the toolchain.
· 9 min readAgent Observability Metrics That Actually Predict Failure
Averages hide every interesting agent failure. Which counters and histograms to define, what to use as the denominator, and how to alert without drowning in noise.
· 9 min readAgent Permission Models: Who Decides What a Tool May Do
Per-call prompts, session grants, capability scoping and policy engines. How the main agent permission models behave once real work runs through them.
· 9 min readAgent Prompt Versioning: Treat Prompts Like Deployed Code
A prompt edit is a production change with no compiler and no stack trace. How to give prompts a stable identity, trace them, roll them out and roll them back.
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