60 Days of Production AI Systems · chapter 7 of 10
Agent Control and Supervision
Human review, guardrails, recovery, budgets and when to split one agent into several.
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Chapter guide · 6 min readMost agent controls do not actually control anythingThe whole chapter in one read. Then go part by part below.- 01
Day 37 · Explainer · 1 min read
Where human review actually belongs in AI workflows
Why human review needs timing, authority, and context to be useful.
On the map: Human review - 02
Day 38 · Explainer · 2 min read
Why guardrails should enable safe action
Why guardrails should shape safe progress, not just block uncertain behavior.
On the map: LLM Gateway - 03
Day 39 · Explainer · 2 min read
Why production agents need recovery design
Why retries, fallbacks, checkpoints, rollback, and escalation belong in the first design.
On the map: Agent - 04
Day 40 · Explainer · 1 min read
Why autonomy needs budgets
Why autonomous systems need limits on cost, time, actions, retries, and risk.
On the map: LLM Gateway - 05
Day 41 · Explainer · 1 min read
Why one giant agent is rarely the cleanest design
Why multi-agent systems should reduce complexity through specialization, not add agents for novelty.
On the map: Agent - 06
Day 42 · Explainer · 1 min read
Why supervisor agents help and where they bottleneck
Why supervisor agents help only when routing, review, and authority are clear.
On the map: Agent