Your agent works on your laptop. It plans a beautiful 4-day hiking trip with a fancy dinner, stays under budget, and nails the itinerary. You hit enter, lean back, and feel like a wizard.
Now ship it to 10,000 users. ...Still confident?
This is the final post in the series, and it's the one that ties everything together. We've spent four posts building up the pieces — failure modes, Agentic RAG, MCP, design patterns — and now we're going to talk about actually shipping this thing. Because the gap between a demo and production isn't features or model size. It's engineering discipline.
Most agents ship without idempotency, validation, budgets, or tracing. They work in the happy path and crumble everywhere else. Cool demos need hardening. Let's harden.
The Reference Architecture: Putting It All Together
