AI Systems
Agent audit trail: reconstruct the action, approval, and outcome
If the only witness is the agent, you do not have an audit trail. You have a testimony.
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Agent operations
How to run and retire production agents so credentials, triggers, and spend stop when the agent should stop.
AI Systems
Agent runtime budget: keep retries inside the same ceiling
A cap that resets on every retry is a cap per attempt, not per task.
AI Systems
Agent shadow mode: evaluate proposals before granting action rights
Let the agent be wrong on paper first, where a mistake costs a comparison instead of a customer.
AI Systems
Governed agent memory: what may persist, and who may write it
An agent's memory is a database that the agent writes itself. Give it the rules you would give any other database.
AI Systems
Prove you can stop an agent: interrupt the run and revoke access
An instruction to stop is a request. A stop is a control that someone outside the agent can operate.
AI Systems
How to retire a production agent (stopping it is not enough)
A stopped agent is not a retired agent. The next schedule, a copied key or a monthly plan can keep it working and billing.
Venture Building
What is a roster? From the Monday rota to a team of AI agents
The word started as a Dutch gridiron. The idea still fits your staff, your agencies and your AI agents.
AI Systems
TRACE vs RAG: one fetches the text, the other checks what it proves
An answer can quote the right document and still draw the wrong conclusion.
AI Systems
What is ROSTER? How one person manages a team of AI agents
A role is defined by what it may not do. Six written decisions turn an AI agent into a specialist you can grade, fix or retire.
AI Systems
What is TRACE? Five steps to check research before you act on it
Three links can be one source. TRACE is how you find out before the decision does.
AI Systems
When not to use an AI agent: five signs, and what to use instead
An agent earns its cost only when the next step depends on what it finds. Most tasks never get there.