AI Agent Production Readiness Checker

My agent writes state to disk atomically (write to .tmp, then rename)

Direct writes corrupt state when the process crashes mid-write

My agent has a turn/iteration limit to prevent infinite loops

Without a cap, runaway agents burn tokens indefinitely

I track a progress metric to detect when the agent is stuck

Busy does not mean progressing. Repeaters and Loopers look fine from outside

Agent state and conversation history are stored separately

Mixing them causes the agent to lose decisions as context fills up

Every external API/tool call is logged with result and duration

You cannot debug what you cannot observe

Tool handlers return strings, never raise exceptions

Unhandled exceptions crash the loop. Errors should be returned as text for the model

I have a kill switch (e.g. checking for a KILL file each heartbeat)

No kill switch means no safe way to stop a runaway agent

The agent escalates to a human after N consecutive failures

Autonomous does not mean never ask for help

Sensitive data (API keys, personal info) is excluded from agent logs

Logs end up in places you do not expect

I have a cost cap per run or heartbeat

No cap means surprise bills