Write a safety case template: intended use, hazards, mitigations, tests, monitoring, and rollback. Include what evidence is required to ship the capability.
Reasoning Transparency: Explain Decisions With Evidence
Create a policy for explanations: cite sources, show assumptions, and label uncertainty. Provide UI patterns for “why this tool was called” and “why this conclusion.”
Design an artifact-centric workflow: agents produce plans, checklists, diffs, and reports as first-class outputs. Include templates and how artifacts enable auditing and reuse.
Design caching layers: retrieval cache, tool result cache, and response cache. Include invalidation rules, privacy constraints, and how to measure cache hit value.
Latency Engineering for Agents (User-Perceived Speed)
Create a latency plan: streaming, speculative execution, parallel tool calls (safe), caching, and progressive disclosure. Include how to avoid race-condition errors and maintain correctness.
Cost-Aware Planning: Budgeted Reasoning and Tool Use
Design a cost-aware planner: assigns budgets to reasoning steps and tool calls, uses early exits, and escalates only when needed. Include a cost model and guardrails.
Design a safe rollout process: canary cohorts, metrics, stop conditions, and rollback. Include how to isolate changes (prompt vs tool vs retrieval) for attribution.
Benchmark Suite: Tool Accuracy and Planning Quality
Create a benchmark suite that measures planning quality, tool-call correctness, and end-to-end success. Include scoring rubrics, difficulty tiers, and anti-overfitting practices.
Design an eval harness: deterministic replays, seeded randomness, fixed tool mocks, and artifact snapshots. Provide a folder structure and CI integration plan.
Create a safe synthetic task generation plan: avoid sensitive content, prevent leakage, and validate usefulness with human review. Include how to measure whether synthetic tasks improve real outcomes.
Agent Router: Intent Classification + Cost Control
Design a router that picks which agent to run: intent classification, complexity estimation, and cost/latency budgets. Include fallback logic and confidence thresholds.