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Production AI Agent Checklist: 8 Controls Before Real Work

Production AI agent checklist: eight controls to verify before an AI agent touches real business work, from a bounded job and accountable owner through safe retries, monitoring, and lifecycle management.

What this video covers

  • Why a polished demonstration does not prove that an AI agent can operate safely and reliably in production.
  • Eight concrete controls covering scope, ownership, orchestration, access, evaluations, human escalation, retries, monitoring, and lifecycle decisions.
  • How NIST, GAO, OpenAI, Anthropic, RAND, and Stanford evidence informs a vendor-neutral production-readiness decision.

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