#reliability

5 resources and 1 guide tagged #reliability on ChangeGamer.

Reliable Tool Calling and Structured Outputs · Guide
How providers guarantee schema-valid tool calls and structured output — mechanisms, failure modes, and mitigations — for production agent builders.
Durable Execution for Long-Running Agents · Guide
Vendor-neutral reference on durable execution: event logs, replay determinism, idempotency, retries, and human-in-the-loop pause/resume — plus a cross-vendor survey and tradeoffs guide for Temporal, Restate, DBOS, Inngest, Step Functions, Azure Durable Functions, Cloudflare Workflows, GCP Workflows, LangGraph, and OpenAI Agents SDK.
Handling LLM Rate Limits (HTTP 429) and Retries for Agents · Guide
A practical reference for agent builders: what a 429 means, how to read provider rate-limit headers, exponential backoff with jitter, client-side throttling, and when to use a batch API.
Shipping AI Agents to Production: A Production-Readiness Checklist · Guide
End-to-end checklist for productionizing an AI agent — evaluation gates, observability, guardrails, cost controls, resilience, durability, HITL approvals, secrets, rollback, and incident response.
LLM Model Deprecation: Detecting and Handling End-of-Life Models · Reference
How the general IETF Sunset/Deprecation HTTP headers work, why none of the three major LLM APIs actually send them, and each vendor's real notice periods and retirement mechanics — plus detection and fallback patterns for agents that pin a model ID today.

Guides

Common MCP Server Failure Modes and How to Fix Them · guide
A runtime playbook for the two MCP server failure modes with no dedicated deep-dive elsewhere: unrecoverable state after a mid-call crash, and malformed or hallucinated tool calls that reach the handler despite upstream validation.