AI Agent Production Safety Checklist

Ship agents with bounded authority and an operational answer for when they are wrong.

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46 launch checks

Tool-risk classification

Human approval matrix

Incident and kill-switch runbook

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Authority

Make every capability deliberate.

Default tools to read-only

Require explicit approval for irreversible or external actions

Scope credentials to one environment and task

Validate targets again immediately before mutation

Runtime

Bound cost, time, and recursion.

Set model-call, token, wall-clock, and monetary ceilings

Use idempotency keys for retryable writes

Detect repeated tool loops

Provide a tested global kill switch

Evidence

Preserve enough context to investigate safely.

Log decisions and tool outcomes without secrets

Version system prompts and policies

Sample completed runs for human review

Alert on policy denial, budget exhaustion, and unusual mutation volume

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