What goes into an AI agent that works in production. The components, how they connect, the failure modes of each, and what the architecture looks like after teams learn what the demo never shows.

Most developers build their first agent as a loop. Here is what happens when that loop needs to handle production workloads — and the five patterns that survive it.

What goes into an AI agent that works in production. The components, how they connect, the failure modes of each, and what the architecture looks like after teams learn what the…