The article distills Anthropic’s production‑agent guidance into five groups of twelve concrete MCP patterns—covering tool surface design, interaction semantics, authentication, context economy, and packaging—explaining why each pattern matters, its trade‑offs, and how it helps build safe, stable, low‑cost agent integrations.
This guide explains how to move from fragile, prompt‑only AI agents to production‑grade systems by designing a control layer—called Harness Engineering—covering memory management, workflow orchestration, permission boundaries, automation patterns, and the Intelligent Harness Runtime that makes agents self‑governing and resilient.
This guide explains how to construct production‑ready AI agent systems by balancing cost, latency, and accuracy, offering a decision framework, concrete techniques such as planner‑executor architecture, chain‑of‑thought prompting, verification agents, parallel agents, and file‑system state management, plus real‑world examples and impact metrics.
This article translates Mahesh Balakrishnan’s 42‑point guide on building production databases, covering customer focus, project management, design principles, code review practices, strategy, observability, and research, offering concrete advice for engineers and teams creating robust backend systems.
