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You will leave with three pillars to monitor and three anti-patterns named explicitly.
The operator — You will run this in production and want a checklist with named failure modes.
You will run this in production and want a checklist with named failure modes.
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The operator: You will run this in production and want a checklist with named failure modes.
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The three production pillars
State, persistence, observability are where MAS failures concentrate. Frame the rest of the path around them.
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The three production pillars
State, persistence, observability are where MAS failures concentrate. Frame the rest of the path around them.
You should be able to name the three pillars and one failure that lives on each.
Adaptive ADPs
Reflector, Skill-Build, and Controller are the operator-facing ADPs — they cover drift, learning, and guardrails.
You should be able to name which of the three is most relevant to alerting and why.
Human-in-the-loop as the escape hatch
Production systems need a place where a person can intervene. The HITL gate is that pattern; it is rarely optional at scale.
You should be able to describe where in your runtime the HITL gate would sit and what state it persists.
Hidden state in prompts
The single most expensive failure mode in production. Recognising it is half the cure.
You should be able to name two symptoms that distinguish hidden state from a bad prompt.
SQLite under concurrency
Close behind hidden state. Most teams hit this the first time real traffic arrives.
You should be able to describe the failure mode and the standard mitigation in one sentence each.
Boundary protocols and what they imply for ops
Interop protocols change what you observe, audit, and trust. Worth reading before MCP/A2A traffic shows up on your dashboards.
You should be able to name one operational concern each protocol introduces or removes.
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