I consider an AI agent production‑ready only when it satisfies all five core criteria: accurate and grounded responses, reliable tool integrations and error recovery, cost and latency optimization, observability and evaluation, and security and privacy.
Criterion 1 — Accurate and grounded responses.
Criterion 2 — Reliable tool integrations and error recovery.
Criterion 3 — Cost and latency optimization.
Criterion 4 — Observability and evaluation.
Criterion 5 — Security and privacy.