AI Agent Observability: Ship Traces, Budgets, and Eval Gates Before Autonomy Production AI agents need more than a good model. They need traces, budgets, approval events, evaluation gates, and final-state verification before autonomy expands.
OpenAI Agents API vs Azure Foundry Hosted Agents: Where Should Your Agent Run? The new managed-agent options are useful, but the real architecture decision is where the agent loop, tools, memory, identity, and observability should live.
Production Agent Architecture in 2026: OpenAI Responses + MCP C# SDK + .NET How to move from agent demos to production: contracts, observability, context budgets, and failure ladders across OpenAI, MCP, and .NET.
OpenAI GPT-5.4 for Agentic Systems: What Actually Changes in Architecture Most model update posts are feature checklists. Useful, but not enough to make architecture decisions. GPT-5.4 is one of those releases where the right question is not “is it smarter?” but “which parts of our agent stack should change now, and which should stay stable?” This guide is