The outcome
Produce validated application data and safe tool use within explicit request, token, call, timeout, retry, and concurrency budgets.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Define typed dependencies, input and output models, invariants, users, tenant scope, tools, permissions, model, quality, safety, budgets, timeouts, retries, and failure behavior.
- 02
Create the agent with narrow instructions and output type, inject authenticated dependencies at runtime, and expose only tools that validate arguments and authorize against current server state.
- 03
Apply usage limits for requests, input and output tokens, and tool calls plus tool timeouts and shared concurrency limits, keeping write operations idempotent and approval-gated.
- 04
Test valid, malformed, adversarial, oversized, unauthorized, cross-tenant, looping, parallel-tool, timeout, provider-error, schema-retry, cancellation, and duplicate-write cases.
- 05
Evaluate outputs and trajectories, inspect redacted traces and costs, pin models and dependencies, canary deployment, and retain a deterministic non-agent fallback for critical paths.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Types constrain shape, not authority.
- Set usage and concurrency limits.
- Keep writes idempotent and approval-gated.
Official references