Hierarchical Agent Supervisors: Designing Deterministic Finite State Machines
Prevent infinite looping and context drift in complex agent systems by decoupling task planning from worker execution through typed state machines.
AI Agents8 min read
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34 practical AI Agents articles from Netbay Engineering — written for operators running Linux and Windows VPS in India.
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WASM Sandboxing for Untrusted Code Execution in Autonomous AI Agents
Safeguard agentic tool environments against runaway commands and host escalation by executing generated scripts inside WebAssembly micro-sandboxes.
AI Agents6 min read
Building Production Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateways for AI Agents
Standardize secure agent tool calling, resource inspection, and schema reflection using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol over Unix domain sockets.
AI Agents7 min read
Distributed Agent Consensus: Coordinating Multi-Agent Workflows with Raft
Implement deterministic state transitions and consensus across autonomous LLM worker swarms using lightweight Raft protocol coordination engines.
AI Agents8 min read
Fixture-Based Evals for Production Ops Agents
Score ops agents against frozen fixtures for SQL safety, command allowlists, and citation honesty so a model change cannot silently break production habits.
AI Agents8 min read
When a Script Is Better Than an AI Agent
Choose a cron script over an AI agent when the steps are known, the failure is binary, and a Linux VPS should not spend tokens to restart nginx.
AI Agents8 min read
Agent Identity, API Keys, and Secret Isolation
Give each agent its own Unix user, env file, and scoped API keys so a leaked worker key cannot drain the billing account or rewrite git history.
AI Agents8 min read
Disk and CPU Watchdog Agent with Allowlists
Watch disk and CPU on a VPS and let the agent run only allowlisted fixes such as journal vacuum or nginx reload, logging every action it takes.
AI Agents8 min read
Audit-Log Every Agent Tool Call in Production
Record who called which tool with which args, hash the result, and keep a replayable JSONL trail so incidents have evidence rather than guesses.
AI Agents8 min read
A Server-Admin Agent That Runs Shell Safely
Build a server-admin agent that never gets a raw shell: allowlisted binaries, a cwd jail, timeouts, and no pipes, on a Linux VPS in Lucknow.
AI Agents9 min read
Backup Verification Agent for Nightly Dumps
Prove last night dump is restorable: check age, size, archive headers, and a throwaway restore so backup success is a test, not a file timestamp.
AI Agents8 min read
Retry, Timeout, Circuit Breakers for LLM APIs
Wrap every model HTTP call with timeouts, jittered retries, and a circuit breaker so one slow provider cannot stall every agent process on the box.
AI Agents8 min read