Your AI agent looks autonomous.
It's missing the 12 things that make it reliable.
The boring infrastructure that separates a demo-toy agent from one you can put in front of paying clients.
What's inside
- The full 12-point reliability checklist
- Error handling and retry patterns that survive failure
- Persistent memory setup so agents stop forgetting
- Logging you can actually audit when things break
The Production-Grade Agent Checklist (12 Points)
by Divjot Sahni · EZYE Consulting · ezye.com.au
Why Demo Agents Break
Looks autonomous and is reliable are two different things
Your agent works in the video, then breaks the second something unexpected happens
The gap isn't intelligence — it's the infrastructure nobody shows you
One bad output with no error handling breaks the entire chain
The First 3 Checks
Error handling: catch the failure instead of letting it cascade
Retries: a timeout should not kill the whole run
Persistent memory: the agent remembers between sessions, not just within one
...and 9 more that separate a toy from a tool clients trust
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