Why Your AI Agent Will Fail in Production (And How to Verify It Won't)

Why Your AI Agent Will Fail in Production (And How to Verify It Won't) A field guide to pre-launch verification for AI agent builders. The Problem Your agent works perfectly in the. It handles the test cases, responds gracefully, and impresses the team. You ship it to production. Three days later: an unhandled edge case, a CVE in a dependency, a coordination breakdown between agents. Your 3 AM pager goes off. This isn't hypothetical. It's the pattern we see in 80% of AI agent deployments. The works. Production breaks. Why Agents Fail in Production 1.