Agent State Management

An agent's state — conversation history, intermediate results, tool outputs — has to be persisted and passed between steps of the agent loop.

Agent Memory in Production

Production agent memory is usually backed by a database or vector store, with explicit rules for what gets kept, summarized, or dropped.

Multi-Agent Orchestration Tools

Frameworks like CrewAI and LangGraph provide the routing and delegation logic that coordinates several specialized agents.

Human-in-the-Loop in Production

In production, human-in-the-loop means a real approval queue, notification system, and timeout policy — not just a design principle.

Agent Evaluation

Evaluating an agent means checking whether it chose the right tools and reached a correct outcome, not just whether one response looked reasonable.

Agent Observability

Observing an agent means tracing every step of its loop — each decision, tool call, and intermediate result — not just the final answer.

Workflow Orchestration for AI

Workflow orchestration sequences AI steps alongside regular application steps — some deterministic, some model-driven.