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Agent Ops & Governance

Run agents in production without losing sleep.

Observability, guardrails, evaluation, cost and usage tracking, and safety for agents once they're live.

10 lessons · about 3.3 hours

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Used in a roadmap: Design and run multi-agent systems (4 of its 12 lessons, the rest are from other courses)
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ModulesPrompts
01
What Agent Ops Is (and Why It's Different)

The eight pillars of running agents in production, agent SLIs/SLOs, and a maturity ladder.

19m
02
Observability & Tracing

Traces and spans for agents, what to record, tooling, privacy, alerts and a repeatable debugging routine.

20m
03
Evaluation in Production

The eval pyramid, datasets from production failures, LLM-judge calibration, CI gates and online evaluation.

20m
04
Guardrails & Agent Security

Prompt injection, the lethal trifecta, least privilege, policy enforcement in code and sandboxing.

21m
05
Human Oversight & Approvals

Risk-tiering actions, approval patterns that avoid fatigue, escalation triggers and audit trails.

20m
06
Cost, Usage & Resource Tracking

Usage ledgers, unit economics, budgets and quotas, and honest footprint estimates.

21m
07
Reliability Engineering for Agents

Resilient calls, idempotency, fallbacks, durable queues, model pinning and chaos testing.

19m
08
Change Management & Releases

Release bundles, eval-gated pipelines, canaries, rollback and the hidden changes that bite.

20m
09
Governance, Compliance & Incident Response

The agent register, risk tiers, data governance, key frameworks and an incident runbook.

21m
10
Production-Readiness Review

An eight-pillar launch checklist with evidence, blockers, scoring and a 30/60/90 plan.

18m
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