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2025-11-0411 min

Building AI agent tooling that can be graded

Deterministic fixtures, typed traces, and golden scorecards turn agent demos into operable systems.

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Abstract glowing network suggesting AI systems

Demos are not systems

An agent that works in a notebook is not ready for production.

Make evaluation first-class

Define scenarios as data. Persist every tool call as a typed event log.

Calm over clever

The goal is an agent you can reason about — graded, bisected, and rolled back like any other service.