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Building Production AI Agents
Module 3
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03.04 · Control flow

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Course outline
Module 1
What breaks in production
4
  • 01.01Failure modes of naive agents
  • 01.02Latency budgets
  • 01.03The cost of context
  • 01.04Case study: a 3am pager
Module 2
Designing the tool surface
4
  • 02.01Naming and descriptions
  • 02.02Argument schemas
  • 02.03Idempotent tools
  • 02.04Error messages the model can act on
Module 3
Control flow
4
  • 03.01When to plan, when to react
  • 03.02Bounded loops
  • 03.03Escalation paths
  • 03.04Human handoff
Module 4
Reliability engineering
4
  • 04.01Retries and jitter
  • 04.02Circuit breakers
  • 04.03Caching safely
  • 04.04Feature flags and kill switches
Module 5
Evaluation
4
  • 05.01Offline evals with fixtures
  • 05.02Online A/B testing
  • 05.03Shadow traffic
  • 05.04Post-incident review
Module 6
Operating agents
4
  • 06.01Tracing and dashboards
  • 06.02Cost attribution
  • 06.03On-call playbooks
  • 06.04Capstone: production agent
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