Production Agent Checklist
23 failure points between your agent demo and production. Check all 23 in 15 minutes.
Get the Checklist — $5The Problem
Your agent works in testing. You deploy it. At 2am, it encounters an input you didn't anticipate. The API is slow. The response format changes. It crashes, produces garbage, or silently does the wrong thing.
Most teams discover these gaps in production. After the agent fails. After the client calls.
The Solution
23 specific failure points with pass/fail criteria organized by 7 categories. Score your agent. Get a production readiness tier: production_ready, needs_work, or demo_grade. Know exactly which gaps to close before you deploy.
7 Categories, 23 Checks
Error Handling
5 itemsGraceful degradation, retry with backoff, timeout handling, error message safety, dead letter handling
State Management
4 itemsSession isolation, context window overflow, workspace isolation, session persistence
Observability
4 itemsResponse time tracking, token cost tracking, error rate monitoring, behavior audit trail
Testing
3 itemsHappy path, edge cases, failure scenarios
Deployment
3 itemsConfig separation, rollback capability, staging environment
Human Escalation
2 itemsEscalation triggers, escalation path
Security
2 itemsLeast privilege tools, no credentials in prompts
Your First 15 Minutes
Pass/fail count across 7 categories. Tier: Production Ready (20–23) / Needs Work (14–19) / Demo Grade (0–13). Specific fails with fix priority. Weakest category identified.
The Math
2 files at $5. 23 production failure points checked in 15 minutes.
One undetected failure in production — response time? Hours of debugging. Data leak? Incalculable.
The checklist is the cheapest insurance you'll buy.
What Comes Next
You know what breaks. The Agent Architecture Playbook ($97) shows how to build so it doesn't. Found gaps in error handling? The Error Handling Patterns ($7) gives you implementation patterns to close them.
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Production Agent Checklist
23 failure points between your agent demo and production. Check all 23 in 15 minutes.
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