The Production Agent
How to ship agentic AI to production without getting paged at 3am.
Battle-tested playbooks from shipping multi-agent systems at 99.9% uptime - orchestration, evals, security, MCP integrations, and the failure modes you don't read about in the launch posts.
The Production Agent
How to ship agentic AI to production without getting paged at 3am.
Sattyam Jain
Self-published (Substack + Gumroad)
Chapters 1-2 free on Substack and on this site. Chapters 3-5 are paid Substack subscriber-only (or buy the lifetime PDF bundle on Gumroad).
Start free. Chapters 1 and 2 are free on Substack and here. No account needed to read them.
Start with Chapter 1Table of contents
5 chapters · 2 free
- 01FREE22 min read
Designing the Production Agent
Orchestration patterns, agent contracts, and the deny-by-default starting line.
How to design an agent that survives contact with production. Tool inventories, capability contracts, deny-by-default surfaces, and the cost router pattern that takes simple problems off the frontier model.
Read draft - 02FREE18 min read
MCP Security & STDIO Posture
Why MCP STDIO is RCE-by-design and the sandbox patterns that fix it.
The Model Context Protocol unlocks composable agent tooling - and ships a critical-by-default vulnerability in its STDIO transport. CVE-2026-30623, what it actually means, and the three-layer sandbox pattern that keeps it from owning your host.
Read draft - 03PAID31 min readOutlined
Agent Supply-Chain Audit
50-point audit for the upstream surface of an agent stack.
The upstream supply chain of an AI agent is model provenance + MCP server graph + eval-set lineage + secret rotation policy + audit-emit channels. 50 audit points, each with a concrete check and a remediation.
Releases on Substack first - 04PAID28 min readOutlined
Migrating to Claude Managed Agents
Step-by-step runbook for moving production workloads.
Claude Managed Agents shipped with Anthropic's nine-connector creative launch and ten finance-agent templates. Here's the migration runbook - control-plane wiring, capability-lease bindings, MCP connector hardening, and the rollback playbook for when a vendor surface shifts.
Releases on Substack first - 05PAID24 min readOutlined
Agent-on-Agent Commerce - The Honest Version
What works today, what's marketing, and what the next 12 months look like.
Anthropic Project Deal, Cloudflare Mesh, Cisco Agentic Workforce Identity, Okta for AI Agents - the agent-on-agent stack is real. Here's what actually ships in 2026 vs what's vendor positioning, and what an honest /api/quote agent contract looks like.
Releases on Substack first
Why this book
Most LLM books teach you to call the API. Most agent posts celebrate a launch. Neither tells you what breaks at week 2 of production, what your audit-emit channel actually needs to capture, or why your MCP STDIO config just gave an attacker a shell on your box.
This is the missing manual: orchestration patterns, eval harnesses, capability-lease identity, MCP-security posture, supply-chain audit points, and the migration runbook for moving onto Claude Managed Agents. All of it distilled from shipping multi-agent systems at 99.9% uptime, plus the open-source tooling (agent-audit-kit, agent-airlock, mnemo) that I use to keep them honest.
Each chapter ships on The Production Agent first. Subscribers get it free if it's a free chapter, and paid subscribers get every chapter. Or buy the lifetime PDF bundle on Gumroad once if you'd rather not subscribe.