THE CONTEXT
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A working lab focused on production AI agent reliability.
Production is where agents break. We study silent failure modes in real-world AI systems: state drift, tool misalignment, decision gaps, trace collapse.
For teams actively running AI agents in production.
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Production failures are predictable.
- Agents modify state through tool calls.
- Approvals disappear between systems.
- Context degrades across sessions.
- Logs don’t explain behavior.
- Failures stay invisible until they’re expensive.
Most teams optimize prompts.
Few teams model decision state.
This is for teams shipping real agents.
- AI-native SaaS
- Vertical copilots
- Automation platforms
- LLM infra teams
- Founders scaling agent workflows
Not for
- Prompt experiments
- Academic prototypes
- Hobby projects
What we're exploring
Decision Architecture
How to structure agent decisions so they can be validated, replayed, audited, and simulated.
State & Drift
Why agents degrade even when prompts stay constant.
Beyond Retrieval
Why embeddings don't model execution state.
How Context Graphs Prevent the 7 Silent Agent Failures
Read →Gartner 2026 Confirms It: The Context Graph Is the Missing Layer in Autonomous AI Agents
Read →Why Your Data Agents Need a Context Layer
Read →AI Agent Evaluation Is Broken: 5 Structural Gaps Between Evals and Production Reality
Read →AI Agent Failure Patterns Atlas (2026): 12 Structural Breakpoints
Read →Production AI systems need structural reliability.
We're comparing notes with teams scaling real deployments. No sales pitch. Just architecture.