Memos
Technical memos on production AI agent reliability. State drift, context engineering, decision architecture, and structural failure modes.
How Context Graphs Prevent the 7 Silent Agent Failures
Read →Production agents fail silently — not from bad prompts, but from bad context structure. Here are the 7 failure modes that context graphs eliminate before they compound.
Gartner 2026 Confirms It: The Context Graph Is the Missing Layer in Autonomous AI Agents
Read →Gartner's 2026 predictions for data and analytics describe an autonomous agent future. Every prediction points to the same architectural gap: agents need context graphs to make reliable decisions at scale.
Why Your Data Agents Need a Context Layer
Read →The bottleneck isn't model capability — it's context. Without a structured context layer, data agents fail because enterprise data is messy and undocumented.
AI Agent Evaluation Is Broken: 5 Structural Gaps Between Evals and Production Reality
Read →Most AI agent evaluation frameworks test wrong things. Discover 5 structural gaps between passing evals and production-ready agents, and how to fix them.
AI Agent Failure Patterns Atlas (2026): 12 Structural Breakpoints
Read →A practical atlas of 12 recurring AI agent failure patterns in production, with root causes, detection signals, and architecture fixes.
Why Your AI Agent Test Suite Is Lying to You: 4 Testing Gaps That Only Show Up in Production
Read →AI agent testing in production reveals structural failures that staging environments can't catch. Learn the 4 testing patterns that undermine reliability.
AI Agent Monitoring Is a Lie: 5 Observability Gaps That Let Production Failures Through
Read →Discover why traditional monitoring fails AI agents in production. 5 structural patterns expose how teams miss decision failures while dashboards stay green.
Why RAG Is Not Enough for Production AI Agents
Read →RAG improves recall but does not govern decisions. For production agents that take action, the gap between retrieval and reliability is structural.
Why Agent Memory Architectures Fail at Scale
Read →Session memory, vector stores, and thread-based memory all degrade under production load. The problem isn't storage — it's structure.
Production AI Has a State Problem
Read →The next wave of AI failures won't come from the models — it comes from state drift.
Context Graph vs Knowledge Graph
Read →A knowledge graph maps reality. A context graph governs decisions.
What is Context Graph?
Read →The missing infrastructure for reliable AI agents.