Evaluation & Operations
Production Readiness Checklist for AI Agents
A practical sequence for validating scope, quality, security, operations, and rollback before launch.
Define scope and success
Document supported tasks, excluded tasks, permissions, stop conditions, and measurable success criteria. Confirm that a simpler workflow would not deliver the same value more reliably.
Test quality and abuse
Run representative evaluations, edge cases, prompt-injection attempts, tool failures, permission checks, and load tests. Review both final outcomes and full action trajectories.
Prepare operations
Set budgets, alerts, trace access, incident ownership, kill switches, and a rollback path. Launch gradually and preserve a reliable human route while evidence accumulates.