Agentic coding needs harnesses, not hope
Coding agents without feedforward specs and feedback gates create cognitive debt faster than they ship features. Golden paths and quality sensors belong in the loop before human review.
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Agents, sovereign inference, and eval-driven release - early signals from Q3 audits
Volume 2 (Preview) · December 2026 · 16 blips
Volume 2 (Preview)
Themes
Sovereign inference moves from checkbox to architecture
DACH regulated buyers increasingly ask where inference runs and which subprocessors touch data. EU-region endpoints and contract review belong in platform design - not procurement fire drills.
Permission-hungry agents need pipeline topology
Useful agents need broad access; safe agents need constrained pipelines. Monolithic agents with prod data + external tools + autonomous action remain in Caution until harness and allowlist patterns mature.
Guardrails belong in Git, not slide decks
Input/output rails, injection tests, and PII scrubbing only work when versioned, reviewed, and red-teamed like any other production control - not as a one-time security workshop.
Blips (16)
- TrialFinOps
Semantic LLM response cache
Cache embeddings of prompts to reuse answers for near-duplicate queries.
- TrialGovernance
MCP allowlist gateway
Approved MCP servers only - inventory, RBAC, and audit logging for agent tools.
- AssessGovernance
EU-region sovereign inference
Inference and embeddings in EU data residency zones with subprocessors documented.
- TrialPlatform & DevEx
Durable agent workflows
Long-running agent jobs with retries, checkpoints, and human approval steps.
- TrialPlatform & DevEx
Temporal
Durable execution engine for long-running and human-in-the-loop agent workflows.
- TrialObservability
Braintrust
Eval-driven development platform - datasets, scorers, and regression tracking for LLM apps.
- AdoptLLMOps
Eval-driven LLM release gates
No prompt or model change reaches production without passing automated eval suite.
- TrialPlatform & DevEx
Spec-driven agent development
Structured specs (OpenSpec, Spec-Kit) as feedforward control before agent codegen.
- TrialGovernance
Agent Skills catalog
Curated, versioned skills as safer alternative to unconstrained MCP tool sprawl.
- CautionGovernance
Monolithic production agents
Single agent with prod data access, external tools, and autonomous write actions.
- AssessLLMOps
LangGraph agent orchestration
Graph-based agents with durable state, cycles, and human-in-the-loop nodes for production workflows.
- AssessLLMOps
LangGraph
LangChain's graph runtime for cyclic, stateful agent applications.
- AssessLLMOps
OpenRouter multi-provider access
Marketplace-style routing across many model providers via one API.
- AssessLLMOps
OpenRouter
Unified API across many LLM providers with routing and usage tracking.
- TrialObservability
Online eval sampling
Sample live production traces into continuous eval jobs - not only offline golden sets.
- AssessFinOps
GPU sharing / MIG for inference
Partition GPUs (MIG or time-slicing) so multiple inference workloads share accelerators safely.