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Agents · Autonomy

Agents that actually finish the job.

Not chatbots that wait for the next message. AI agents that plan, call tools, retry, and hand off to humans only when they should — running your ops loop autonomously.

Agent trace · lead-enrichment
  1. 🧠 Plan · resolve email → company → tech stack
  2. 🔧 Tool · clearbit.company_lookup(...)
  3. 🔧 Tool · builtwith.stack(domain=acme.com)
  4. 🤔 Reflect · missing headcount → try apollo
  5. 🔧 Tool · apollo.enrich(...)
  6. ✍️ Compose · CRM note with 5 datapoints
  7. 🔒 Approval · post to HubSpot? (auto-approved · policy: enrich)
  8. ✅ Done · 42s · ₹4.10 · tokens 3,214

Kinds of agents we build.

Ops agents

Ticket triage, incident response, on-call summaries.

Research agents

Company deep-dives, competitor scans, market maps.

Outreach agents

Personalised sequences at scale with quality gates.

Compliance agents

Doc review, policy checks, red-flag surfacing.

Rules we ship with.

The gap between a demo and a production agent is the boring stuff. We do the boring stuff.

  • Narrow scope per agent
  • Tool allow-list only
  • Budget + step limits
  • Approval gates for irreversible actions
  • Full trace + replay logs
  • Fallback to human on low confidence
  • Test suite of scenarios
  • Weekly performance review

Agent FAQs.

Unstructured ones are. We build agents with narrow scopes, tool allow-lists, retry logic, and approval gates. Reliability comes from architecture, not the model.

Agent architecture patterns

Pick the topology by task shape — most "unreliable agent" stories are the wrong pattern applied to the wrong job.

PatternWhen it fitsFailure modeReliability lever
Single-step tool useOne decision, few toolsLLM picks wrong toolConstrained function-calling schemas
ReAct loopResearch, enrichmentLoops until budget diesHard step + token caps
Plan-and-executeMulti-hour workflowsStale plan mid-runRe-plan checkpoint every N steps
Router + specialistsMixed intentsRouter misroutes edge casesFallback specialist + confidence gate
Hierarchical (supervisor)Cross-team opsSupervisor becomes bottleneckParallel workers + async join
Human-in-the-loopIrreversible or costly actsApproval fatigueAuto-approve within policy envelope

Failure modes and the guardrails that catch them

A production agent is 20% prompt, 80% guardrails. These are the ones we ship with by default.

  • Runaway tool calls

    Per-run token + step + wall-clock budget; agent hard-stops and escalates to human with the partial trace.

  • Hallucinated tool arguments

    Zod/JSON-schema validation on every tool call; failed validation counts as a step and forces re-plan.

  • Silent data corruption

    All writes go through an idempotency key; retries never double-post; every mutation logged with before/after.

  • Prompt injection via retrieved docs

    Untrusted content wrapped in delimiters, system prompt reasserted, tools blocked from reading user-controlled URLs.

  • Cost drift

    Per-workflow cost budget with weekly alerting; cache identical sub-queries; downgrade model on non-reasoning steps.

  • Silent regressions on model updates

    Golden test set of 30-100 scenarios run on every model or prompt change; block deploy on regression.

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