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title: From demo to production
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description: 'What it takes to run an AI agent in production: budgets, retries, idempotency, observability, asynchronous work, fallbacks, and criteria for not using an agent.'
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    <h1>From demo to production</h1><p>What it takes to run an AI agent in production: budgets, retries, idempotency, observability, asynchronous work, fallbacks, and criteria for not using an agent.</p>
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<article><span>02</span><h2>Retries, idempotency, and terminal failures</h2><p>Not every error should be recovered in the same way. A timeout may be retryable; an invalid argument is not. A 429 requires backoff and respect for quota; a negative business response may…</p></article>
<article><span>03</span><h2>Asynchronous work and honest completion</h2><p>The Reactive/Proactive Agent pattern used by 5sigmas models a common case: the agent accepts work, the tool continues outside the visible turn, and the result arrives when the operation…</p></article></div>
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