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AI Agents Checklist (PDF)

The Production-Ready AI Agent Audit

50 Critical Checks Before You Go Live

Beyond the demo: autonomous AI agents fail in production for five predictable reasons — reliability, state management, tooling, observability, and security. This audit systematically checks each one.

What's covered

Inside the checklist

01

Reliability & Determinism

  • Strict output validation (Pydantic)
  • Schema adherence
  • Retry logic (self-healing)
  • Hallucination checks
  • Infinite loop detection
  • Timeout handling
  • Fallback mechanisms
  • Rate limit handling
02

State Management & Persistence

  • Checkpoint strategy
  • Session isolation
  • State serialization
  • Memory management
  • Conversation context limits
  • Cross-agent state sharing
03

Tool Integration & Permissions

  • Tool-scoped RBAC
  • Input sanitization
  • Output validation per tool
  • Permission boundaries
  • API key rotation
04

Observability & Cost Control

  • Structured logging (JSON)
  • Token usage tracking
  • Latency monitoring
  • Cost alerts
  • Decision audit trail
05

Security & Compliance

  • Prompt injection defense
  • Data exfiltration checks
  • PII handling
  • Audit logging
  • Multi-tenant isolation
Next Step

Turn this into a running system

Use this resource to sharpen the engineering decision, then move into the capability path that implements the system with production discipline.

See Production AI Audit

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