The 12 automations every operator needs — and why running them as silos kills compounding. The business-OS-with-knowledgebase architecture that makes them work together.
Every agent action — send email, book calendar, charge card — needs an idempotency key. Retries without one create duplicate bookings and double charges. The 20-line wrapper that fixes it.
Most agents have every tool on every turn. Quality drift + privilege escalation follow. The 40-line tool-gate that scopes each turn to its intent.
Your agent is paying frontier-model rates to do intent classification. The cheap-model planner pattern routes turns to the right model. 30-line implementation.
Every long agent conversation hits the context window. The retry-with-summary pattern keeps it alive without dropping the user. 30-line implementation.
Four silent failure modes that quietly lose form submissions on most production sites. The audit, the fixes, and the contract that closes the gap end-to-end.
Your AI agent's median response time is fine. Your 95th percentile is killing you. The 3-second heartbeat that drops abandonment by half.
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