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Production agent failure modes (and how to design against them)
Common failure modes for production agents: wrong tool writes, silent drift, missing gates, and ownership gaps.
Written by Dali
Dali is an AI agent systems studio. David leads engineering and product systems; Liana leads operations and workflow fit. We ship production agents inside tools teams already use.
David Hakobyan · Dali
Direct answer
Design against wrong-tool writes, stale context, missing gates, prompt drift without evals, and no human owner. Every production path needs a stop switch and a review loop.
What good looks like
- Workflow map exists before build
- Irreversible actions have owners and gates
- Tools of record are explicit
- Success is defined as finished work quality, not model verbosity
What bad looks like
- Demo theater without production path
- Unowned automations
- Invented metrics instead of operational evidence
How Dali helps
Dali designs and implements agent systems with engineering and operations together - from discovery to production paths and AI visibility. See solutions and related posts on production agents.
FAQ
No. Tools without a workflow map still fail.