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Technical field notes

Agent automation architecture, implementation, and reliability notes

Technical guides, incident analyses, and operating patterns from production AI workflow automation systems.

Series

Agent reliability by micro-systems: a practical series map

A focused roadmap for building reliable agent systems from deterministic subsystems.

Concierge OS

Agent Concierge OS: why concierge is an operating system problem

A practical thesis for turning fragmented concierge operations into governed production workflows.

Architecture

Agent Concierge OS architecture: memory, matching, approvals, and execution

The minimal production architecture and contracts that keep quality stable under pressure.

Reliability

Concierge OS reliability: keep white-glove service stable under load

Controls, incident playbooks, and weekly metrics that prevent operational drift.

Provider Mesh

Concierge provider mesh: how customer agents and provider agents should cooperate

A practical two-sided model for preference-aware matching and execution reliability.

Control Room

Concierge control room: realtime operations and GIS-style command views

How to design operational visibility for timing-critical concierge workflows.

Governance

Concierge OS governance: privacy, approvals, and auditability by design

A practical control model for sensitive data and high-risk execution steps.

Productization

From concierge services to product: turning delivery work into reusable software

The delivery-first loop for turning paid execution into durable product modules.

Walkthrough

One concierge workflow end-to-end: intake -> match -> approve -> fulfill

A concrete implementation path for the first production workflow lane.

Roadmap

Concierge OS in 90 days: a practical rollout roadmap

A staged plan to move from one scoped lane to stable multi-lane operations.

OpenClaw

The 2-hour OpenClaw VPS setup (and the 5 traps we hit)

Stable setup path with real failure signatures and recovery checks.

Security

Secure access without drama: Tailscale Serve, pairing, and tokens

A practical access model teams can run under pressure.

Integrations

Gmail at scale: Pub/Sub watch that actually delivers

IAM and org-policy realities behind reliable inbox workflows.

Browser Ops

Browser control: managed profile vs extension relay

How to choose the right control mode when deterministic interaction matters.

Voice

Voice and notes: turning Telegram into a daily command center

How voice input/output improved adoption once the stack was stable.

Reliability

Reliability playbook: when the bot stops replying

The repeatable recovery model we use when sessions drift or gateway state goes stale.

Micro-systems

Tool contracts for agent systems: validate, gate, retry, and prove side effects

A practical contract pattern using pydantic, tenacity, and idempotency receipts.

Micro-systems

Run queues for agent systems: claim, lease, heartbeat, finalize (without eating jobs)

A deterministic queue contract for exclusive ownership, bounded retries, and crash-safe recovery.

Micro-systems

Event inboxes for agent systems: webhook intake, dedupe, replay, and recovery

An inbox-first ingestion pattern that keeps events replayable and side effects auditable.

Micro-systems

Retrieval boundaries for agent systems: scoped recall, ranking checks, and no-answer contracts

A deterministic retrieval loop for safer context selection and fewer confident wrong answers.

Micro-systems

Streaming state coherence: partial output, cancellation, and finalization without UI drift

A practical stream contract with sequence IDs, replay, and deterministic terminal snapshots.

Micro-systems

Capstone lane: one production workflow from intake to runbook

The implementation blueprint and artifact checklist for shipping one reliable workflow lane end to end.

State Systems

Versioned state and conflict recovery for agent systems: series map

The reading path for deterministic shared-state ownership under concurrency.

State Systems

Versioned state for agent systems: optimistic writes, conflict events, and safe retry loops

A deterministic state contract for concurrent users and workers without silent overwrites.

State Systems

Conflict events for agent systems: preserve user intent under concurrent writes

How to rebase safely and surface blocked edits without silent merges.

State Systems

Durable undo/redo for agent systems: persist intent history across restart

Treat undo/redo as recoverable system state, not local UI memory.

State Systems

Bounded batch mutations for agent UIs: stop write storms without dropping intent

Queue caps, stop rules, and refetch contracts for safer collaborative saves.

State Systems

Capstone: collaborative state recovery lane for agent systems

The complete production lane with conflicts, retries, durable history, and recovery drills.