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Overview

This page is a pragmatic checklist for shipping Coevolved-based agents in production. Use it to sanity-check the parts that tend to break first: loops, tools, costs, and data handling.

Reliability

  • Stop conditions: define explicit stop conditions for every loop; unit test them.
  • Retries: wrap flaky steps with retry policies (network calls, external APIs).
  • Checkpointing: checkpoint before/after iterations for long-running agents.
  • Idempotency: make tools safe to retry (or detect duplicates).
  • Timeouts: enforce wall-clock time limits at the loop level.

Cost controls

  • Budgets: enforce UsagePolicy caps for steps/time/LLM calls/tool calls.
  • Model choices: default to smaller models; promote to bigger models only when needed.
  • Tool discipline: avoid unnecessary tool calls; validate tool args to reduce wasted iterations.

Security and data handling

  • Logging: avoid logging full prompts and raw responses by default.
  • Redaction: scrub sensitive fields before hashing or exporting traces.
  • Secrets: don’t pass secrets through state unless required; prefer environment configuration.
  • Tool sandboxing: treat tools as privileged code paths; validate inputs and outputs.

Operations

  • Tracing: emit events to your logging/observability pipeline.
  • Alerts: monitor error rates, timeouts, and budget exceeded events.
  • Prompt versioning: use stable prompt IDs and bump versions intentionally.
  • Run metadata: tag runs with environment/version identifiers in your own sink pipeline.

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